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AP World History
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1. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
Cambyses II
Gold Coast
Liu Bang
Samurai
2. 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
Mestizo
Shang
Labor union
3. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Bourgeoisie
Mestizo
Berlin Conference
Tanakh
4. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
League of Nations
1756
1848
Roman Republic
5. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
Keiretsu
1994
Liu Bang
United Nations
6. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
1258 CE
Long March
Driver
Sunnis
7. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
1959
Aswan High Dam
Daoism
Qin
8. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.
Patricians
Battle of Midway
1453 CE
Ming
9. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.
Salvador Allende
Manchuria
Octavian
Safavid Persia
10. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
Cortes
Pancho Villa
Augustus
Aborigine
11. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Plebeians
Emperor Menelik
Jainism
Karl Marx
12. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain
1804
Umayyad Caliphate
Neolithic
Treaty of Nanking
13. 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.
Perestroika
1941
Mercantilism
1607
14. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).
Daoism
Confucius
Estates General
Samurai
15. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
Indentured servitude
1600
Darius I
Vladimir Lenin
16. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)
221 BCE
Scientific Revolution
Chiang Kai-Shek
Dirty War
17. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.
Theodosius
Roman Republic
Emilio Aguinaldo
Roman Senate
18. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
1271-1295 CE
Christopher Columbus
Deng Xiaoping
Timur
19. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.
Emilano Zapata
Asian Tigers
1935
Enlightenment
20. Date: independence & partition of India
Joint-stock company
1947
Indian Ocean
Fransisco Pizarro
21. 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.
Holocaust
Maya
Simon Bolivar
Aqueduct
22. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.
Mandate System
476 CE
Zionism
Tributary system
23. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Huguenot
Zhou dynasty
Sun Yat-sen
Zapata
24. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Huns
Sanskrit
Ibn Khaldun
Pax Romana
25. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.
333 CE
Jacobins
Aqueduct
Mycenae
26. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.
Siddhartha Gautama
Sepoy Mutiny
Manchuria
Kievan Russia
27. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Devshirme
Humanism
Stoicism
Mandate of Heaven
28. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Copernicus
Samsara
Triumvirate
Cottage industry
29. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
United Nations
Imperialism
Taiping Rebellion
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
30. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
Emilano Zapata
Sufi
Caravel
Mestizo
31. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga
Cultural imperialism
Revolutions of 1848
476 CE
Khmer Empire
32. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Sumer
Druids
Neo-Assyrians
Apostle Paul
33. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
Charlemagne
Solomon's Temple
Hellenistic
Yellow River
34. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.
1959
Hebrew Bible
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Nikita Khrushchev
35. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Five Year Plans
Darius I
Gothic Cathedrals
36. 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
All-India Muslim League
Battle of Midway
Nuremberg Trials
Alexandria
37. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
Great Circuit
ideograms
Guild
Stalingrad
38. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Janapadas
Hegemony
221 BCE
United Nations
39. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Mikhail Gorbachev
Jizya
Franz Ferdinand
Prince Henry The Navigator
40. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Chinampas
Pax Romana
Nazism
Patricians
41. 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.
Little Ice Age
Scramble for Africa
Delhi
Pancho Villa
42. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Guilds
Jamestown
Hoplite
Cuban Missile Crisis
43. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Mulatto
Forbidden City
Cold War
Confucius
44. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
Reconquista
The Mahdi
Iron curtain
Janapadas
45. Date: Korean War starts
Druids
Sandinista
3000s BCE
1950
46. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.
Printing press
Patricians
Mycenae
Shang
47. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Driver
1914-1918
Ziggurat
Minoans
48. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)
527 CE
1949
Armenia
Asante
49. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Yuan Empire
Extraterritoriality
Sanskrit
Stoicism
50. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
Romanization
1848
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Marco Polo