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AP World History
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1. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America
1054 CE
Neocolonialism
Umma
5th century BCE
2. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.
Henry the Navigator
1521
Nubians
Black Death
3. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top
Victorian Age
Qing Empire
Guilds
ziggurat
4. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Talmud
Cultural Revolution
Artha-sastra
Monasticism
5. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.
Philip II
Umma
Gunpowder
Tokugawa Shogunate
6. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Woodrow Wilson
Hatshepsut
Mauryan Empire
Tamil Kingdoms
7. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
Balance of Power
Catholic Reformation
Indian Ocean
Warring States Period
8. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
Gulag
Fresco
Gunpowder
1848
9. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.
Monotheism
1979
Satrapy
Socrates
10. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Leonid Brezhnev
95 Theses
Sigmund Freud
Socialists
11. Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.
Catholic Reformation
Sahel
Botany Bay
Dharma
12. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
1979
Nehru
Gentry
1853
13. 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.
6th century BCE
Hiroshima
Fransisco Pizarro
Jesus
14. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
Investiture
Kamikaze
Varna
Malay
15. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.
Treaty of Versailles
Great Zimbabwe
Hundred Years War
Caesar Augustus
16. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Balance of power
Pancho Villa
Movable type
Khipu
17. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.
1917
Little Ice Age
Persia
Mauryan Empire
18. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.
Umma
1492
Pancho Villa
Imperialism
19. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
Safavid Empire
Mycenae
Quran
Goths
20. 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.
Pericles
Faisal
1756
Persepolis
21. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Hittites
Ethiopia
Gujarat
Industrial Revolution
22. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.
Persia
Proxy war
Investiture
Abolition
23. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Martin Luther
Korean War
Qing Empire
Carthage
24. 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
Tribute system
1979
Darius I
Centuries
25. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Jacobins
Plato
Huguenot
26. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
legalism
1914-1918
Colombian Exchange
1956
27. 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
Indian Civil Service
Hoplite
Tenochtitlan
Gamal Abdel Nasser
28. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Ma'at
Gujarat
Qing Empire
Fascist Party
29. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
Napoleon
Confucius
Guomindang
Empiricism
30. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
Manor
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Toussaint L'Ouverture
1618
31. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Sumer
Scramble for Africa
Olmec
Muhammad
32. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Constantine
Minoans
vassal
St. Augustine
33. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600
Lama
Italian Renaissance
Agora
Benito Mussolini
34. 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
NATO
Scientific Revolution
Enclosure Movement
35. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Tao-te Ching
Deng Xiaoping
Mestizo
Cuban Missile Crisis
36. 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.
Absolutism
Xia
Parthians
Zheng He
37. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).
Christopher Columbus
1848
Mao Zedong
Meiji Restoration
38. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Bourgeoisie
Samsara
Shang
Tiananmen Square
39. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.
Darius I
Karl Marx
Guomindang
Sumerians
40. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson
Protestant Reformation
Huguenot
Persepolis
41. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)
Papacy
1571
Concordat
Shamanism
42. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
1571
Trireme
Napoleon
Monsoon
43. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.
Puritans
Nubians
Nazism
Ulama
44. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
5th century BCE
Yellow Turban
Tang Revival
Shah Abbas I
45. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
1433 CE
House of Burgesses
1863
Habsburg
46. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
NATO
Emperor Menelik
Romanization
Mestizo
47. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Separate Spheres
Iconoclast
Minoan
Railroads
48. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
Franz Ferdinand
James Watt
St. Augustine
Charles Darwin
49. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.
Mechanization
Delhi Sulatanate
Steel
1967
50. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
732 CE
Submarine telegraph cables
1941
Concordat