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AP World History
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1. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
Shi Huangdi
1853
Cultural imperialism
Totalitarianism
2. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Ziggurat
Zhou Dynasty
Gunpowder
Totalitarianism
3. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the
Jainism
Middle Passage
Satrapy
Apostle Paul
4. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Empiricism
Alexander the Great
Cultural imperialism
Pearl Harbor
5. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
Romanization
vassal
Twelve Tables
WTO
6. The cycle of life in Hinduism
1885
Middle Passage
Samsara
Lama
7. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Emilano Zapata
Constitutionalism
Epic of Gilgamesh
Maya
8. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh
Three-field system
5th century BCE
Buddhism
Encomienda
9. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach
Pericles
Socrates
Tang Revival
Humanism
10. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.
Sokoto Caliphate
Italian Renaissance
Mita
Fresco
11. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).
Nongovernmental Organizations
Cultural imperialism
Victorian Age
Great Zimbabwe
12. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
1914-1918
Ethiopia
Absolutism
Christopher Columbus
13. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
Stalingrad
United Nations
Diffusion
Trireme
14. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
Hundred Years War
Mestizo
1962
Dar al-Islam
15. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Samsara
Solon
16. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Xia
Tamil Kingdoms
Macedonia
Ming
17. 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.
Yongle
Medina
1979
Shang Dynasty
18. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Repartimiento
Iconoclast
Mikhail Gorbachev
Zoroastrianism
19. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Papyrus
Third World
Emilano Zapata
Mestizo
20. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Hellenistic Age
Muhammad
1492
Gamal Abdel Nasser
21. 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.
Crusades
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Mandate of Heaven
Porfirio Díaz
22. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.
Roman Principate
Centuries
Estates General
Neolithic
23. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name
Crusades
Tiananmen Square
Cyrus II
Benito Mussolini
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.
Bolsheviks
Pax Romana
Teotihuacan
Qin
25. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Simon Bolivar
Zhou Dynasty
Empress Wu
Italian Renaissance
26. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)
Absolutism
Gujarat
Conquistadors
1948
27. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
220 CE
Habsburg
Zionism
Asante
28. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Yellow River
McCarthyism
Mestizo
Submarine telegraph cables
29. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.
Buddha
1588
Serbia
Babylonian Empire
30. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Tanzimat
Huns
All-India Muslim League
Mercantilism
31. 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
Dar al-Islam
Pilgrims
Witch-hunt
32. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Jesus
Great Zimbabwe
Serf
Napoleon Bonaparte
33. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Safavid Persia
Simon Bolivar
Francisco Franco
Ramesses II
34. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
220 CE
Fransisco Pizarro
Third World
Emperor Menelik
35. 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
Saddam Hussein
Wheel of Life
1517
Zoroastrianism
36. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs
Treaty of Nanking
Zhou Dynasty
Timur
Khubilai Khan
37. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Nuclear nonproliferation
Otto von Bismarck
Nazca
Swahili
38. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.
Christopher Columbus
Taiping Rebellion
Yurt
ideograms
39. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Hittites
Han
Emilio Aguinaldo
Janissaries
40. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
1071 CE
Buddhism
1991
1300 BCE
41. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
6th century BCE
Capitalism
Hoplite
Estates General
42. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear
Colombian Exchange
Armenia
Gothic Cathedrals
Catholic Reformation
43. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hanseatic League
Harappa
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Epic of Gilgamesh
44. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
1815
Plebeians
Maori
Israel
45. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Serf
Cuban Missile Crisis
Persepolis
476 CE
46. 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)
Fidel Castro
Habsburg
Aristotle
Malay
47. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Muslim
Caliphate
4th century CE
Industrial Revolution
48. The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia - where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community.
Octavian
Umma
Neocolonialism
Guomindang
49. A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native America
Encomienda
Western Front
Satrapy
Mikhail Gorbachev
50. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Shakespeare
Deng Xiaoping
Delhi
Ghana