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AP World History
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1. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Byzantine Empire
Scramble for Africa
Habsburgs
Bolshevik
2. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
WTO
Railroads
Charlemagne
Centuries
3. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top
Mandate of Heaven
1939
ziggurat
Asoka
4. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Fresco
Ibn Battuta
Cuban Missile Crisis
Octavian
5. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)
Buddhism
Aborigine
Alexandria
Pax Romana
6. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.
Battle of Midway
Bolshevik
Moksha
Abbasid Caliphate
7. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.
Sikhs
Third World
Zhou
1600
8. 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).
Guild
Laissez faire
Zoroastrianism
Consul
9. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Afrikaners
Separate Spheres
Agricultural Revolution
Jenne-jeno
10. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.
Aryans
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Malay
11. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.
Joesph Stalin
Totalitarianism
5th century BCE
1917
12. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
Nikita Khrushchev
Darius I
Muscovy
Gupta Empire
13. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Pax Romana
Cultural imperialism
Tanzimat
Samurai
14. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
1776
Safavid Persia
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Khubilai Khan
15. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany
Josiah Wedgwood
Separate Spheres
John F. Kennedy
1989
16. 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
Horse collar
Separate Spheres
Colonization
1071 CE
17. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Catholic Reformation
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Panama Canal
Teotihuacan
18. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
220 CE
Alexander the Great
1899
Siddhartha Gautama
19. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)
Berlin Conference
Charles de Gaulle
1502
Helsinki Accords
20. 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.
Josiah Wedgwood
1533
180 CE
Ramesses II
21. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Ibn Khaldun
1848
1517
Juan Peron
22. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity
Submarine telegraph cables
Yurt
Tribune
Ming
23. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
1919
1453 CE
Aryans
Minoans
24. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Humanism
Asoka
Papyrus
Thebes
25. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
1941
Punic Wars
Hadith
Perestroika
26. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
527 CE
Tao-te Ching
Durbar
Theravada Buddhism
27. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).
Benito Mussolini
Paterfamilias
Confucius
Jainism
28. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
6th century BCE
Patricians
Hittites
Indentured servitude
29. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name
Cottage industry
All-India Muslim League
NATO
Cyrus II
30. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
Tenochtitlan
Cecil Rhodes
Habsburg
King Leopold II King of Belgium
31. 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
Mali
Mahabharata
Zoroastrianism
Cultural Revolution
32. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
National Assembly
Capitalism
Korean War
Printing press
33. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Olmec
Czar
Hellenistic
Zapata
34. 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.
Constantinople
Telegraph
Oracle Bones
Civilian Conservation Corps
35. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Mycenae
Sub-Saharan Africa
Mycenae
ethnic cleansing
36. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Dirty War
Jacobins
Constantinople
Tamil Kingdoms
37. 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.
Pericles
Twelve Tables
Pancho Villa
Beijing
38. 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)
Diffusion
Cecil Rhodes
1571
Han
39. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
Mycenae
Oracle Bones
Polis
1919
40. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Atahualpa
Sunnis
Champa Rice
Byzantine Empire
41. 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.
3000s BCE
6th century BCE
Mughal Empire
Hittites
42. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Durbar
Byzantine Empire
1804
Gunpowder
43. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
1914-1918
1810s
Mansa Musa
Fidel Castro
44. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
Indulgences
1533
Triumvirate
Woodrow Wilson
45. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
Empress Wu
Babylonian Empire
Yellow River
Gens de couleur
46. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Moksha
Tennis Court Oath
Tribune
Shakespeare
47. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
1861
1939
Wheel of Life
Creole
48. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Panama Canal
Jose Morelos
476 CE
Hieroglyphics
49. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Empress Dowager Cixi
Tanakh
Vedas
1533
50. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
Guild
95 Theses
Mikhail Gorbachev
Zhou