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AP World History
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1. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Safavid Persia
Sandinista
Postmodernism
Warring States Period
2. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
Pericles
732 CE
Byzantine Empire
1898
3. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Sigmund Freud
Semitic
Mercantilism
Pancho Villa
4. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t
Opium Wars
Mita
Qing Empire
Yongle
5. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Porfirio Díaz
League of Nations
Cortes
Muhammad
6. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.
The Mahdi
Pancho Villa
1910
Bread and Circuses
7. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
Keiretsu
Gothic Cathedrals
City state
Minoans
8. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.
Yurt
Napoleon
Mongol Empire
hadith
9. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
French Revolution
Hydrogen bomb
Ramesses II
Talmud
10. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Colonialism
Hegemony
Umayyad Caliphate
Abbasid Dynasty
11. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Hydrogen bomb
Mestizo
Republic
12. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
Delian League
Shakespeare
Steam engine
Syncretism
13. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia
Long March
Alexander the Great
1945
1571
14. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.
1517
Pilgrimage
vassal
Telegraph
15. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
NATO
Constantinople
Ptolemy
Ulama
16. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav
Revolutions of 1848
Tribute system
Tenochtitlan
Yongle
17. Date: 9/11 Attacks
Atlantic System
Cold War
Maya
2001
18. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.
Girondins
Mali
Gunpowder
vassal
19. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
Sepoy Mutiny
Solon
Quran
Mikhail Gorbachev
20. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Third World
Safavid Empire
Jenne-jeno
Fourteen Points
21. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Afrikaners
Auschwitz
Lama
Winston Churchill
22. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Chavin
Octavian
Berlin Conference
Rigveda
23. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
Satrapy
Sanskrit
Agora
Delhi Sultanate
24. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)
632 CE
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Abolition
Sunnis
25. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
deforestation
Marie Curie
Hundred Years War
Pax Romana
26. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
pictograms
Paleolithic
1095 CE
Shamanism
27. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Gentry
Korean War
Hoplite
Little Ice Age
28. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Deism
Marie Curie
1949
Neocolonialism
29. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
Five Year Plans
Laissez faire
Fourteen Points
Hoplite
30. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
1954
Deng Xiaoping
Peloponnesian War
1914-1918
31. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
Monophysites
1271-1295 CE
Warsaw Pact
Democracy
32. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Theodosius
Serbia
Dharma
Constitutional Convention
33. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
Darius I
1962
Hydrogen bomb
Shang Dynasty
34. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Italian Renaissance
Hadith
Sepoy Mutiny
Cambyses II
35. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
Treaty of Nanking
Guild
1931
Gunpowder
36. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Laissez faire
Comfort girls
Inca
liberalism
37. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)
527 CE
Aristotle
Safavid Empire
assimilation
38. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
Maya
Agricultural Revolution
180 CE
Crystal Palace
39. 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.
Tribune
Mestizo
Vladimir Lenin
Zheng He
40. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
City state
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Cortes
Talmud
41. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
1939
Solon
Hieroglyphics
1905
42. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).
Apostle Paul
Cottage industry
Czar
Joseph Stalin
43. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Mao Zedong
Shogun
Caravel
Kievan Russia
44. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Zhou dynasty
Gens de couleur
Hoplite
1571
45. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Samsara
Mughal Empire
Minoan
Zapata
46. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Colombian Exchange
Apostle Paul
Mauryan Empire
Shakespeare
47. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Sun Yat-Sen
Nation-State
Chinampas
48. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Henry the Navigator
Enclosure Movement
Mahabharata
Shogun
49. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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50. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Vedas
Romanization
Roman Principate
Aqueduct