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AP World History
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1. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Samurai
Balance of power
Estates General
Saddam Hussein
2. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
Adolf Hitler
Timur
Zheng He
Zoroastrianism
3. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.
Shi Huangdi
Augustus
Siddhartha Gautama
Keiretsu
4. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
1571
Leonardo da Vinci
Agora
Mughal Empire
5. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Semitic
Panama Canal
Four Noble Truths
Delhi Sultanate
6. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.
Darius I
Imperialism
Nomad
Semitic
7. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Indian Ocean
Tanakh
Ptolemy
Maya
8. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.
Vladimir Lenin
Atahualpa
Gulag
Forbidden City
9. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Fertile Crescent
Girondins
Fascism
Code of Hammurabi
10. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
Mongols
Guomindang
1962
Delhi
11. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Mahabharata
Berlin Blockade
Ghana
Vishnu
12. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
Sasanid Empire
Tanzimat
deforestation
Mercantilism
13. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Apostle Paul
Hydrogen bomb
Olmec
Jenne-jeno
14. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
Bolsheviks
1962
Taiping Rebellion
Civilian Conservation Corps
15. Spanish estates that were often plantations
Laissez Faire
Hieroglyphics
333 CE
Hacienda
16. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Extraterritoriality
Byzantine Empire
Akbar
Pax Romana
17. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
James Watt
1991
Israel
Napoleon Bonaparte
18. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Olmec
Hieroglyphics
Code of Hammurabi
Minoans
19. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Mass deportation
French Revolution
Zhou dynasty
Napoleon Bonaparte
20. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Kepler
Sikhs
180 CE
Mao Zedong
21. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
Malay
Serbia
22. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.
assimilation
Vladimir Lenin
Monophysites
Junk
23. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
Silk Road
Samurai
New Economic Policy
1324 CE
24. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.
Tribute system
Gens de couleur
Divination
Pearl Harbor
25. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
Joseph Stalin
Mamluks
deforestation
1950
26. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Copernicus
Perestroika
Wheel of Life
Concordat
27. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.
Julius Caesar
Yongle
Minoans
Gamal Abdel Nasser
28. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S
1948
Enconmienda
urbanization
Capitalism
29. Date: 9/11 Attacks
Holocaust
Divination
2001
1941
30. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Akhenaten
Puranas
Sumer
Lusitania
31. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Moksha
4th century CE
Alexander the Great
Hiroshima
32. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Mahabharata
Hiroshima
Samurai
Porfirio Díaz
33. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
1987
Mycenae
Cortes
1945
34. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
1905
All-India Muslim League
Hanseatic League
1776
35. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights
Mita
Estates General
Nehru
Indulgences
36. German leader of the Nazi Party
Monasticism
Bolsheviks
1517
Adolf Hitler
37. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Teotihuacan
1910
Zhou dynasty
5th century BCE
38. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
James Watt
Solidarity
1935
John F. Kennedy
39. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Bourgeoisie
Neocolonialism
Vladimir Lenin
Enclosure Movement
40. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Silk Road
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Carthage
Balfour Declaration
41. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Daoism
Song Dynasty
Industrial Revolution
Berlin Blockade
42. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Postmodernism
Patricians
1991
Revolutions of 1848
43. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
ideograms
Copernicus
Benito Mussolini
Tanakh
44. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)
Hieroglyphics
Mechanization
Terrorism
Thebes
45. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)
Shamanism
Zhou Dynasty
Harappa
Cixi
46. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Treaty of Nanking
Satrapy
Jenne-jeno
Sudetenland
47. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.
Vedas
Treaty of Versailles
Shinto
Napoleonic Wars
48. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Fransisco Pizarro
Cultural Revolution
Enclosure Movement
Solon
49. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Teotihuacan
Mita
Artha-sastra
1683
50. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Steam engine
Bartolomeu Dias
Perestroika
Siddhartha Gautama