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AP World History
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1. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
1071 CE
United Nations
Cyrus II
League of Nations
2. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Byzantine Empire
Christopher Columbus
Deng Xiaoping
Charles de Gaulle
3. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
Guild
Sunnis
Aborigine
Habsburg
4. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Vedas
Iconoclast
Darius I
Bhagavad-Gita
5. 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.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Oracle Bones
Jesus
Hacienda
6. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
Jainism
Fresco
Cottage industry
Delhi Sultanate
7. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)
Royal African Company
Delian League
Atahualpa
Fertile Crescent
8. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Mestizo
Investiture
Thomas Malthus
Long March
9. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
1683
Code of Hammurabi
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
10. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Pancho Villa
Sasanid Empire
Safavid Empire
Song Dynasty
11. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights
Creoles
Estates General
Sokoto Caliphate
Rajputs
12. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Gentry
Vishnu
Islam
Huns
13. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
Zulu
Shang Dynasty
Korean War
urbanization
14. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
Monotheism
Trireme
Hiroshima
Buddhism
15. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Mulatto
Albert Einstein
1789
Acropolis
16. 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).
Mao Zedong
Treaty of Versailles
Chiefdom
Wheel of Life
17. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
Hiroshima
Pericles
Divine Right of Kings
Joint-stock company
18. 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.
Third World
Champa Rice
732 CE
Long March
19. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.
Colombian Exchange
Manchuria
1948
Indulgences
20. 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.
Yellow Turban
Perestroika
Aqueduct
Jesuits
21. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
World Bank
Humanism
1905
Jesuits
22. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
McCarthyism
Leonid Brezhnev
Cortes
The Golden Triangle
23. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Chavin
Persian Wars
Empress Wu
Girondins
24. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Fascism
Martin Luther
Cambyses II
Uigurs
25. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Enlightenment
Cold War
Republic
Suez Canal
26. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Gens de couleur
Harappa
Minoans
Empiricism
27. 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.
Varna
Manor
Rigveda
Minoans
28. 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.
Code of Hammurabi
Tributary system
Cold War
Mauryan Empire
29. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia
Jamestown
Rama
Sumerians
Plebeians
30. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Royal African Company
1533
French Revolution
Gens de couleur
31. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Jainism
10000 BCE
Neo-Assyrians
Sepoy
32. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Dutch West India Company
Mao Zedong
Capitalism
Khubilai Khan
33. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
Guomindang
180 CE
Mansa Musa
Vladimir Lenin
34. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Oracle Bones
Saddam Hussein
Zapata
Berlin Blockade
35. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Solomon's Temple
1517
Minoans
Nikita Khrushchev
36. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
333 CE
Theravada Buddhism
House of Burgesses
James Watt
37. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Civilian Conservation Corps
Stock exchange
Francisco Franco
assimilation
38. 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
Weimar Republic
Yongle
Hernan Cortes
Gunpowder
39. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)
Rama
1347 CE
Ayatollah Khomeini
Hinduism
40. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Akbar
10000 BCE
Mycenae
Hoplite
41. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Totalitarianism
Shinto
Otto von Bismarck
Mycenae
42. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Macedonia
Silk Road
Diffusion
2001
43. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
Kepler
Mita
Laissez faire
Inca
44. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
Hittites
Akhenaten
Manchus
cuneiform
45. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.
Terrorism
Mycenae
Dar al-Islam
Persia
46. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
World Bank
Botany Bay
James Watt
Catholic Reformation
47. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1776
Indentured servitude
48. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
Song Dynasty
Getulio Vargas
Delhi
1689
49. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.
Consul
Humanism
Steel
Scientific Revolution
50. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.
Maximillien Robespierre
Leonid Brezhnev
Hieroglyphics
Constantine