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AP World History
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1. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
Labor union
Ulama
Darius I
Nirvana
2. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
1857
Asian Tigers
Leonardo da Vinci
Peloponnesian War
3. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.
Maximillien Robespierre
Agora
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Suez Canal
4. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Hammurabi
Indian Ocean
Huguenot
Thomas Malthus
5. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
Long March
Encomienda
Zoroastrianism
ziggurat
6. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Vladimir Lenin
Bolshevik
New Economic Policy
Asoka
7. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Salvador Allende
Diaspora
Three-field system
Abbasid Caliphate
8. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.
Yuan Empire
African National Congress
Zoroastrianism
St. Augustine
9. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Thomas Edison
Ziggurat
Indentured servitude
Zoroastrianism
10. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
1689
Gupta Empire
Nuclear nonproliferation
Sokoto Caliphate
11. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.
Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
Leonardo da Vinci
Creoles
12. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.
Lusitania
Steel
Guomindang
Kamikaze
13. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Rigveda
Adolf Hitler
1071 CE
Nazca
14. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.
Persian Wars
European Community
Capitalism
Collectivization
15. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
Ghana
Guomindang
James Watt
1911
16. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125
Zionism
Mamluks
Alexander the Great
Jainism
17. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Zapata
Patricians
Constantine
1948
18. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
Cotton
Plato
Pilgrimage
Tribute system
19. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.
Collectivization
Jesus
Indulgences
Shi Huangdi
20. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Swahili
Celts
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Tributary system
21. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
1931
1949
Zhou dynasty
Tanzimat
22. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Balance of power
John Locke
Timur
Hernan Cortes
23. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Sun Yat-sen
Timur
1898
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
24. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')
Bourgeoisie
5th century BCE
3000s BCE
Liu Bang
25. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
New Economic Policy
Paleolithic
Dutch West India Company
Zaibatsu
26. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
Adolf Hitler
Olmec
Abbasid Dynasty
1857
27. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)
Parthians
Shah Abbas I
Witch-hunt
221 BCE
28. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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29. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Teotihuacan
Hinduism
1911
1521
30. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Parthians
Nubians
Philosophes
Zheng He
31. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
Third World
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Napoleonic Wars
220 CE
32. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Ghana
Bhagavad-Gita
Octavian
1987
33. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Horse collar
Nirvana
Shang Dynasty
Samsara
34. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Enclosure Movement
Meiji Restoration
Apostle Paul
Neocolonialism
35. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.
Alexandria
Gunpowder
Trireme
Hydrogen bomb
36. '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.
Tanzimat
Bantu
Leonardo da Vinci
Diaspora
37. Date: French Revolution begins
Atlantic System
1789
Sumerians
Porfirio Díaz
38. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
Mercantilism
Wheel of Life
Victorian Age
Indian Civil Service
39. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Mass deportation
Lama
Absolutism
Atahualpa
40. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
Apostle Paul
Umma
Sikhism
Durbar
41. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.
Eva Peron
Tiananmen Square
Colonization
Roman Principate
42. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.
Girondins
House of Burgesses
Little Ice Age
Constantinople
43. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.
Henry the Navigator
Concordat
1492
Varna
44. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.
Hittites
Constantine
Philosophes
Humanists
45. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
Tribute system
Sumerians
Hundred Years War
Shakespeare
46. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil
Pax Romana
Zoroastrianism
Middle Passage
Nubians
47. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Stock exchange
Israel
1810s
Jenne-jeno
48. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century
527 CE
Oracle Bones
Humanists
Railroads
49. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.
Quran
Khubilai Khan
Cortes
333 CE
50. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented
Hacienda
Hanseatic League
Cultural imperialism
Hieroglyphics