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AP World History
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1. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Emperor Menelik
Scramble for Africa
ziggurat
Mantra
2. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Tennis Court Oath
Terrorism
632 CE
Uigurs
3. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.
Colombian Exchange
Ayatollah Khomeini
Humanism
New Imperialism
4. 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
Sikhism
Yongle
Suez Canal
Habsburgs
5. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.
Totalitarianism
Huguenot
Max Planck
Roman Senate
6. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
Goths
Iron curtain
Hammurabi
1776
7. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Berlin Conference
Hammurabi
Zhou dynasty
Ulama
8. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Gulag
Enclosure Movement
Humanism
1994
9. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Diaspora
Nazca
Octavian
Benjamin Franklin
10. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics
Separate Spheres
Mercantilism
Twelve Tables
Caesar Augustus
11. Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the in these cities - foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.
Nikita Khrushchev
Chiang Kai-Shek
Treaty Ports
New Economic Policy
12. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Nazca
McCarthyism
Theodosius
Olmec
13. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)
John F. Kennedy
Atlantic System
Sumerians
Jenne-Jeno
14. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
Sumerians
1600
Hieroglyphics
Treaty of Versailles
15. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.
Indentured servitude
Hundred Years War
Hiroshima
Bourgeoisie
16. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th
Balfour Declaration
Vedas
Sandinista
Caesar Augustus
17. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
1066 CE
Shamanism
Nomad
Enlightenment
18. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.
Berlin Conference
Karma
Little Ice Age
Leonid Brezhnev
19. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
Forbidden City
Olmec
Afrikaners
Ibn Battuta
20. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
Han
1857
Semitic
Octavian
21. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a
Romanization
Epic of Gilgamesh
Treaty of Versailles
Alexandria
22. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Macedonia
Agricultural Revolution
1911
Absolutism
23. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
Diaspora
Fascism
Maya
Delhi
24. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
1776
1848
Sunnis
Pax Romana
25. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US
Horse collar
Caesar Augustus
Cotton
Catholic Reformation
26. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Vladimir Lenin
Czar
Kievan Russia
Helsinki Accords
27. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Mestizo
Labor union
Darius I
Stoicism
28. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.
221 BCE
Nomad
1905
Crystal Palace
29. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Nonaligned
Christopher Columbus
1911
30. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Vladimir Lenin
Caravel
Vedas
1325 CE
31. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Buddha
Dar al-Islam
Zhou
Stock exchange
32. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Mansa Musa
Yurt
Josiah Wedgwood
Terrorism
33. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
Gunpowder
Czar
1857
Habsburg
34. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.
Shang Dynasty
Panama Canal
Pax Romana
Caesar Augustus
35. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
180 CE
Minoan
1325 CE
Beijing
36. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
pictograms
Labor union
Steel
Christopher Columbus
37. 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.
Khubilai Khan
Prince Henry The Navigator
Constitutionalism
Inca
38. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Quran
League of Nations
Inca
Holy Roman Empire
39. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.
Czar
Afrikaners
1689
1453 CE
40. 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.
Janapadas
Cecil Rhodes
Fertile Crescent
Constantine
41. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Macartney Mission
632 CE
1810s
Olmec
42. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Stoicism
Akbar
Ottomans
Shogun
43. 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
Timur
Thomas Malthus
Porfirio Díaz
Three-field system
44. 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.
Indian National Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tribute system
Suez Canal
45. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)
Cecil Rhodes
Nehru
Darius I
1488
46. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Vladimir Lenin
Berlin Blockade
1905
Hernan Cortes
47. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
1453 CE
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Medina
New Imperialism
48. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures
Franz Ferdinand
Submarine telegraph cables
Mechanization
loess
49. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Muhammad
Swahili
Zoroastrianism
1054 CE
50. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Nation-State
Kievan Russia
Paleolithic
Porfirio Díaz