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AP World History
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1. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Simon Bolivar
Western Front
1967
Romanization
2. 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
Artha-sastra
1935
Opium Wars
Fidel Castro
3. 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
Indian National Congress
Zionism
loess
Maya
4. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses
Darius I
liberalism
Persian Wars
Grand Canal
5. The central text of Daoism.
Patricians
Mongol Empire
Tao-te Ching
Mita
6. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
1863
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Persepolis
7. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Assimilation
1967
Faisal
Champa Rice
8. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Persia
Maximillien Robespierre
Tributary system
Iconoclast
9. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Copernicus
Zheng He
Siberia
1914-1918
10. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Twelve Tables
National Assembly
Mita
Mulatto
11. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Khmer Empire
Mahayana Buddhism
Fascist Party
Daoism
12. 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.
Pax Mongolica
1689
Indentured servitude
Medina
13. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
Byzantine Empire
6th century BCE
Diffusion
Socialists
14. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept
Sumerians
Yuan Empire
Pancho Villa
Hebrew Bible
15. 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)
Malay
Hatshepsut
1898
Tito
16. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
OPEC
Polis
Vedas
Great Circuit
17. Date: end of WWII
1945
World Bank
Mentuhotep I
Balfour Declaration
18. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.
Cossaks
Christopher Columbus
Aztecs
Kamikaze
19. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
1857
Puranas
Mughal Empire
1789
20. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
Theravada Buddhism
Manumission
Neo-Assyrians
Nation-State
21. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.
House of Burgesses
Muhammad
Qin
Battle of Midway
22. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1967
Assimilation
Mechanization
23. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
Dharma
Janissary
Movable type
Bolshevik
24. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Mohenjo-Daro
Winston Churchill
Teotihuacan
Tang Empire
25. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Treaty Ports
1571
1871
Octavian
26. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i
Mahabharata
Republic
New Economic Policy
King Leopold II King of Belgium
27. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
Otto von Bismarck
Artha-sastra
Mandate of Heaven
Macartney Mission
28. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC
Hydrogen bomb
Champa Rice
Devshirme
Mahabharata
29. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Mercantilism
Qin
Christopher Columbus
Czar
30. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
1607
Guild
Humanism
Cecil Rhodes
31. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.
Guild
Mahayana Buddhism
assimilation
Bantu
32. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Laissez Faire
Zhou
Fidel Castro
Getulio Vargas
33. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Dutch West India Company
Neo-Assyrians
Hebrew Bible
Protestant Reformation
34. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby
1521
Jenne-jeno
Tang Empire
Mesopotamia
35. Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture.
Byzantine Empire
1325 CE
Ferdinand Magellan
1947
36. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu
Daoism
urbanization
Hoplite
527 CE
37. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Zen
Middle Passage
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Four Noble Truths
38. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
ethnic cleansing
Sikhs
Cyrus II
Umma
39. Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor - but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.
Indian National Congress
Sufi
Muhammad Ali
Great Zimbabwe
40. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Abolition
Paterfamilias
Acropolis
Mandate of Heaven
41. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gens de couleur
Richard Arkwright
Macartney Mission
42. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.
Zoroaster
Zapata
Indulgence
Nonaligned
43. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
Socrates
Nomad
1987
Samurai
44. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Sasanid Empire
1618
Indian National Congress
Chinampas
45. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Silk Road
Catholic Reformation
Rigveda
Hacienda
46. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.
Western Front
Charles Darwin
Huns
Yellow Turban
47. 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.
Atlantic System
Scramble for Africa
Hoplite
Thomas Malthus
48. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Maori
Humanism
Papyrus
Hieroglyphics
49. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Talmud
1600
Shinto
50. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
All-India Muslim League
Royal African Company
Steam engine
Yuan Empire