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AP World History
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1. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Mamluks
Caste system
Hegemony
Sub-Saharan Africa
2. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
1533
Acropolis
Khipu
Israel
3. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Hundred Years War
Helsinki Accords
Timur
Little Ice Age
4. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.
Crystal Palace
Karma
Afrikaners
Bengal
5. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
Byzantine Empire
Mulatto
Olmec
Bhagavad-Gita
6. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Junk
Francisco Franco
Suez Canal
7. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t
Opium Wars
Zhou dynasty
Hatshepsut
5th century BCE
8. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon
Napoleonic Wars
NATO
Adolf Hitler
Nation-State
9. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
Vishnu
Persian Wars
Victorian Age
Babylon
10. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Economic sanctions
Ma'at
Oracle Bones
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
11. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.
Taiping Rebellion
Hammurabi
Pancho Villa
Nonaligned
12. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
Buddhism
Aryans
Ming
Labor union
13. 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.
476 CE
Kepler
Pax Romana
Holy Roman Empire
14. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Nation-State
Divination
2001
Mantra
15. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Cultural imperialism
Roman Senate
Christopher Columbus
Hacienda
16. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Copernicus
Apostle Paul
Chiefdom
Treaty of Nanking
17. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Punic Wars
Joseph Stalin
Ayatollah Khomeini
Napoleon Bonaparte
18. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.
Maori
Huns
cuneiform
Shang Dynasty
19. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.
Congress of Vienna
Mauryan Empire
Maori
Korean War
20. The English monarch who was beheaded by Puritans (see English Civil War) who then established their own short-lived government ruled by Oliver Cromwell (Mid 1600s).
Dharma
Lama
King Charles I
Cortes
21. 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.
Swahili
1947
Stoicism
Mauryan Empire
22. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
Deng Xiaoping
Repartimiento
Zimmerman telegram
1815
23. 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.
Babylon
Centuries
Muhammad Ali
Hellenistic
24. Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste - and Akbar I married a Rajput princess.
Stalingrad
Rajputs
Albert Einstein
Helsinki Accords
25. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Zionism
Jenne-Jeno
Mulatto
Hellenistic
26. 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.
Emilano Zapata
Oracle Bones
Manchuria
Tiananmen Square
27. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
Persia
Indian Civil Service
Tanzimat
Pax Mongolica
28. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
Dar al-Islam
1300 BCE
Socialists
Hoplite
29. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Daoism
Hittites
Shakespeare
1776
30. 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.
Fidel Castro
World Bank
Aborigine
Bantu
31. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.
Bartholomew Dias
Inca
Max Planck
1600
32. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
1947
Stoicism
1861
Druids
33. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Porfirio Díaz
1271-1295 CE
Gulag
323 BCE
34. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Babylonian Empire
1954
5th century BCE
Otto von Bismarck
35. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Colonialism
Constitutionalism
Napoleon Bonaparte
Agora
36. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Nuremberg Trials
Mughal Empire
Cecil Rhodes
Richard Arkwright
37. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.
Quran
Totalitarianism
Tribune
Separate Spheres
38. 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
Gupta Empire
732 CE
Philip II
39. 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
Zoroastrianism
Yellow River
4th century CE
vassal
40. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
1987
Artha-sastra
Nikita Khrushchev
1271-1295 CE
41. 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.
Gunpowder
Zoroaster
Balance of power
Hammurabi
42. The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region.
Totalitarianism
John F. Kennedy
Caste system
Chavin
43. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Jesus
Julius Caesar
George Washington
Karma
44. 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
Papyrus
Nuremberg Trials
Emilano Zapata
Constantinople
45. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.
Paterfamilias
Meiji Restoration
Peloponnesian War
Chiang Kai-Shek
46. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
Lusitania
6th century BCE
cuneiform
Umma
47. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
Constantinople
Guild
Congress of Vienna
1271-1295 CE
48. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.
Capitalism
Yuan Empire
Ulama
Telegraph
49. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Theravada Buddhism
Sikhism
Mali
1521
50. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.
Mestizo
Steam engine
Serf
Mandate of Heaven