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AP World History
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1. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.
Peloponnesian War
Mercantilism
Maximillien Robespierre
Napoleon
2. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept
Sumerians
1929
Ming
Safavid Persia
3. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Darius I
Agricultural Revolution
1533
Chavin
4. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)
Sepoy
527 CE
1947
Cecil Rhodes
5. 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.
Druids
Philosophes
Three-field system
1914-1918
6. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
ideograms
Adolf Hitler
Jesuits
Consul
7. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
Siberia
Proxy wars
Tokugawa Shogunate
ideograms
8. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
French Revolution
Horse collar
Empiricism
Apostle Paul
9. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
Cultural Revolution
Indulgences
Scholasticism
Catholic Reformation
10. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Talmud
Akbar
1911
Monophysites
11. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Aqueduct
Teotihuacan
Diffusion
Abbasid Dynasty
12. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder
Aztecs
Ibn Khaldun
Revolutions of 1848
Philip II
13. 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
Montezuma II
Yongle
Serbia
1905
14. 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.
Philosophes
ziggurat
Getulio Vargas
Korean War
15. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.
Diocletian
vassal
Guomindang
Persepolis
16. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Minoan
Stock exchange
1950
legalism
17. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Perestroika
Iconoclast
Aztecs
Daoism
18. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Nubians
Italian Renaissance
Hegemony
Economic sanctions
19. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o
Mita
Chavin
Consul
Helsinki Accords
20. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Montezuma II
Creoles
Driver
21. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Satrapy
Medieval
Trireme
1949
22. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Safavid Persia
Mulatto
Mercantilism
5th century BCE
23. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Dharma
Neolithic
Reconquista
Republic
24. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha
Mita
Czar
Siddhartha Gautama
Stone Age
25. 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.
Delhi Sultanate
Enlightenment
Richard Arkwright
Golden Horde
26. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Akhenaten
Pearl Harbor
Scientific Revolution
27. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
The Mahdi
Iconoclast
Jacobins
Yuan Empire
28. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Papacy
Bourgeoisie
Delhi Sulatanate
Huns
29. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Zimmerman telegram
Botany Bay
Atahualpa
Hadith
30. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Abolition
Hittites
Janapadas
1905
31. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.
Oracle Bones
Qing Empire
Assimilation
cuneiform
32. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Sigmund Freud
Max Planck
Creole
Delhi
33. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Jenne-jeno
Josiah Wedgwood
Pericles
34. 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.
Hammurabi
Humanists
Auschwitz
1095 CE
35. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Teotihuacan
Leonid Brezhnev
Ulama
36. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Three-field system
Olmec
Plato
1095 CE
37. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Steam engine
Khmer Empire
NATO
Peloponnesian War
38. 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
Bengal
Estates General
Manumission
Modernization
39. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969
Charles de Gaulle
Alexander the Great
legalism
Fresco
40. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Scientific Revolution
Safavid Persia
Western Front
Guomindang
41. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.
Teotihuacan
Columbian Exchange
Hatshepsut
Sun Yat-sen
42. Date: French Revolution begins
1789
Jamestown
Macedonia
Montezuma II
43. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
Asoka
Weimar Republic
Creole
Mongols
44. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Mita
Indian National Congress
Ramesses II
45. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
10000 BCE
Umma
1956
Nuremberg Trials
46. 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
Moksha
Concordat
Eva Peron
The Golden Triangle
47. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
Asante
hadith
Epic of Gilgamesh
Han
48. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Enlightenment
Capitalism
Ptolemy
Mauryan Empire
49. '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.
Tanzimat
Armenia
The Golden Triangle
Varna
50. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
1994
1095 CE
Guild
Satrapy