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AP World History
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1. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Nonaligned
Nuremberg Trials
Cixi
Zaibatsu
2. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Confucianism
Daoism
assimilation
Siddhartha Gautama
3. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
Huguenot
John F. Kennedy
Golden Horde
Telegraph
4. 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)
Shamanism
Alexander the Great
Sudetenland
NATO
5. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Trireme
Talmud
Mycenae
Nehru
6. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan
Constitutional Convention
Manor
Persepolis
Printing press
7. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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8. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
Buddha
Humanists
Gold Coast
Absolutism
9. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Zhou
Moksha
Medina
Tito
10. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Sikhism
Franz Ferdinand
Vladimir Lenin
Bolshevik
11. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Ming
1095 CE
Jizya
Durbar
12. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Romanization
Jose Morelos
Zhou dynasty
Gupta Empire
13. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu
Reconquista
Shang
Aryans
Young Turks
14. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.
Dalai Lama
Concordat
Printing press
Liu Bang
15. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.
Five Year Plans
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tiananmen Square
Zoroastrianism
16. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Dirty War
Uigurs
Hieroglyphics
Humanism
17. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.
Talmud
Jenne-Jeno
Chiefdom
Agricultural Revolution
18. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
1839
Agora
Ulama
Steam engine
19. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Cultural imperialism
Indian Ocean
Yellow Turban
Beijing
20. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Adolf Hitler
Aryans
Mita
Perestroika
21. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Great Zimbabwe
John F. Kennedy
St. Augustine
1054 CE
22. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Benito Mussolini
Medieval
1618
1571
23. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri
Sepoy Mutiny
Polis
Maximillien Robespierre
New Economic Policy
24. 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.
Olmec
Papacy
Nehru
1948
25. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.
Saddam Hussein
Umayyad Caliphate
Pericles
Quran
26. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
Carthage
180 CE
Asian Tigers
Constantine
27. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Darius I
Herodotus
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Getulio Vargas
28. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
The Golden Triangle
Memphis
Beijing
Hiroshima
29. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
Hatshepsut
Augustus
Maya
Mauryan Empire
30. 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.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Yin and yang
Quran
Creoles
31. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.
Berlin Conference
Indian National Congress
Constantine
Cultural imperialism
32. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Driver
Ibn Battuta
Diffusion
Aryans
33. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Cold War
Solomon's Temple
Tributary system
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
34. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
1962
1917
Macartney Mission
Deng Xiaoping
35. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
OPEC
Oracle Bones
Aborigine
The Mahdi
36. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.
House of Burgesses
Chiefdom
Marie Curie
Hacienda
37. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Isfahan
1979
Xia
Fidel Castro
38. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America
Maya
Tributary system
Chinampas
The Golden Triangle
39. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
The Mahdi
Hebrew Bible
Treaty of Nanking
Postmodernism
40. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
1899
Sudetenland
Empress Wu
Siberia
41. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Pancho Villa
Civilian Conservation Corps
Nazism
Shi Huangdi
42. 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.
1492
Tanzimat
1756
Aztecs
43. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Octavian
Imperialism
Nonaligned
44. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o
Jacobins
Bengal
Repartimiento
Gulag
45. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Guomindang
Martin Luther
Manchus
Shang Dynasty
46. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Solon
Agricultural Revolution
Four Noble Truths
Umma
47. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Zaibatsu
Umayyad Caliphate
Henry the Navigator
Zhou Dynasty
48. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Long March
Dharma
Teotihuacan
Sufi
49. 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.
Scientific Revolution
Aqueduct
Punic Wars
Indentured servitude
50. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
4th century CE
Medieval
The Mahdi
McCarthyism