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AP World History
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1. 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.
Warring States Period
Victorian Age
Janapadas
Neo-Assyrian Empire
2. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
Gold Coast
Chiefdom
Fourteen Points
Diaspora
3. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
Manumission
Postmodernism
NATO
Zhou Dynasty
4. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Qin
ziggurat
Papacy
Mercantilism
5. 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.
Mandate System
Romanization
Ibn Khaldun
Twelve Tables
6. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Moksha
Tokugawa Shogunate
Fransisco Pizarro
Ulama
7. The central text of Daoism.
Tao-te Ching
Philosophes
Junk
Neolithic
8. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
Moksha
333 CE
1950
Treaty of Versailles
9. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Jesus
Hammurabi
Cuban Missile Crisis
1324 CE
10. 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
Hellenistic Age
Submarine telegraph cables
Manchus
11. 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).
Laissez faire
Malay
Plato
1683
12. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
2001
1533
Thomas Edison
Pilgrims
13. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.
Karma
Winston Churchill
32 CE
Gamal Abdel Nasser
14. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses
Darius I
Caravel
Sun Yat-Sen
Ulama
15. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
Qing Empire
Zaibatsu
Republic
Enconmienda
16. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
Republic
Shang Dynasty
1095 CE
Meiji Restoration
17. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Jizya
Zapata
Hegemony
Solon
18. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
Muslim
Chiefdom
1258 CE
Humanism
19. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Ibn Battuta
Postmodernism
Kepler
Ottomans
20. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.
Satrapy
Daoism
Great Circuit
Sub-Saharan Africa
21. 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.
Muslim
1071 CE
Republic
Guild
22. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.
Mass deportation
Tamil Kingdoms
Jesus
Semitic
23. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Puritans
1607
24. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
Umma
Carthage
Ming
Thomas Malthus
25. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
Balance of Power
1300 BCE
Crystal Palace
Auschwitz
26. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Durbar
1571
Christopher Columbus
1857
27. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty
Monotheism
Paterfamilias
Qin
Benito Mussolini
28. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Mercantilism
Absolutism
Tribune
Caravel
29. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Tang Empire
Tokugawa Shogunate
Constantine
Alexandria
30. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
Divination
Assimilation
Sanskrit
Glorious Revolution
31. 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.
Sanskrit
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Woodrow Wilson
Darius I
32. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno
Marco Polo
Submarine telegraph cables
Divine Right of Kings
Sikhism
33. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Girondins
Collectivization
220 CE
Caesar Augustus
34. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.
4th century CE
Byzantine Empire
Long March
Benjamin Franklin
35. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
Vishnu
pictograms
Cixi
Colonialism
36. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Medieval
Constantine
1947
Abbasid Caliphate
37. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
Joint-stock company
1271-1295 CE
Deng Xiaoping
1756
38. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
1950
Montezuma II
Guomindang
Rama
39. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Adolf Hitler
Gujarat
Cyrus II
Plebeians
40. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Guild
Pancho Villa
Republic
Pericles
41. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
1898
Varna
Printing press
Sokoto Caliphate
42. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
323 BCE
Gentry
Weimar Republic
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
43. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Aztecs
3000s BCE
Zimmerman telegram
Jizya
44. 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).
King Charles I
6th century BCE
1683
Mulatto
45. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
1917
Olmec
Eva Peron
Leonardo da Vinci
46. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
Suleiman the Magnificent
1939
Nonaligned
Pericles
47. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Laissez faire
Abolition
Apostle Paul
Chiang Kai-Shek
48. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.
Colombian Exchange
Auschwitz
Witchcraft
1950
49. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.
1453 CE
Keiretsu
Rama
Asante
50. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
1987
2001
Mita
Enlightenment