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AP World History
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1. 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.
Mandate of Heaven
Sumerians
Minoans
1967
2. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
Asante
Monotheism
95 Theses
Pilgrims
3. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Papyrus
Olmec
Sunnis
1871
4. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.
Battle of Midway
Confucianism
Witchcraft
Stoicism
5. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
1488
Comfort girls
Ibn Battuta
George Washington
6. 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.
Colonization
Scientific Revolution
Aqueduct
Serf
7. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
10000 BCE
Qin
Aztecs
Rigveda
8. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
180 CE
1071 CE
Junk
Civilian Conservation Corps
9. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)
1588
Hammurabi
Bolshevik
Romanization
10. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
Humanists
Plato
Hieroglyphics
hadith
11. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Concordat
Syncretism
1618
Teotihuacan
12. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.
Qing Empire
League of Nations
Papyrus
Julius Caesar
13. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
Cottage industry
Medina
Hellenistic Age
Guomindang
14. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
Hittites
Samurai
1911
Martin Luther
15. 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.
Laissez Faire
Indentured servitude
Salvador Allende
Cortes
16. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.
Zulu
Dutch West India Company
Leonardo da Vinci
Bolsheviks
17. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Hellenistic
Celts
Cyrus II
Czar
18. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
Constantine
Mandate System
221 BCE
1054 CE
19. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Enconmienda
Aristotle
1919
Zimmerman telegram
20. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Henry the Navigator
1848
Islam
Mita
21. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
Alexander the Great
Ziggurat
Bourgeoisie
1689
22. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)
Monasticism
527 CE
Nongovernmental Organizations
Marco Polo
23. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
Shah Abbas I
Monasticism
Sanskrit
Balance of Power
24. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Eva Peron
Cecil Rhodes
Mein Kampf
Tributary system
25. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war
Tito
Shi Huangdi
Guild
Paterfamilias
26. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
Delhi Sulatanate
476 CE
Deng Xiaoping
Wheel of Life
27. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred
Maximillien Robespierre
Solon
Zapata
Zimmerman telegram
28. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th
Muscovy
Zaibatsu
Crystal Palace
John Locke
29. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.
Goths
Warsaw Pact
Champa Rice
Dirty War
30. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
Mycenae
1941
loess
Tribute system
31. 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.
Muhammad Ali
Theravada Buddhism
Mechanization
221 BCE
32. 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.
Pancho Villa
Treaty of Versailles
Humanism
Quran
33. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Ma'at
Tribute system
Driver
Gothic Cathedrals
34. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Great Zimbabwe
Maya
Fertile Crescent
Bartolome de Las Casas
35. 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.
Enlightenment
3000s BCE
Gold Coast
City state
36. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Thebes
Mestizo
Zaibatsu
Yin and yang
37. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)
Trireme
Quran
Hiroshima
1347 CE
38. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
1956
Jamestown
Bartholomew Dias
Maya
39. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Augustus
Diffusion
Joseph Stalin
Abbasid Caliphate
40. Date: Stock Market Crash
1776
Tiananmen Square
1910
1929
41. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
Caravel
Zoroastrianism
1871
1347 CE
42. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics
Separate Spheres
Zoroastrianism
Indentured servitude
Crusades
43. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Shah Abbas I
Pericles
Trireme
Toussaint L'Ouverture
44. 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
Neocolonialism
Telegraph
Faisal
Bengal
45. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people
Indian Civil Service
Guomindang
Stock exchange
Victorian Age
46. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
Tang Revival
Albert Einstein
Olmec
Cambyses II
47. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Mita
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Herodotus
Macartney Mission
48. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
ideograms
Leonardo da Vinci
Janissary
95 Theses
49. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
1931
Nazca
John F. Kennedy
Syncretism
50. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.
Constantine
Khubilai Khan
Helsinki Accords
Railroads