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AP World History
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1. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Qin
Akbar
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Shang
2. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Indulgences
Gulag
Cyrus II
Enlightenment
3. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.
1905
Mali
Auschwitz
Hatshepsut
4. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Abolition
Uigurs
Cultural Revolution
Ming
5. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Chiefdom
Tanakh
732 CE
32 CE
6. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Tribute system
Mughal Empire
Maori
Vedas
7. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Hammurabi
Silk Road
Junk
Serbia
8. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)
Syncretism
Abbasid Caliphate
1502
Apostle Paul
9. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Ethiopia
Separate Spheres
Ulama
Monsoon
10. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.
Imperialism
Mahayana Buddhism
Holy Roman Empire
Mita
11. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Muhammad
Charles Darwin
Berlin Conference
Dutch West India Company
12. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Gentry
Caliphate
Hanseatic League
Afrikaners
13. 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
Papacy
Mentuhotep I
Nubians
14. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Mandate System
Nation-State
Apostle Paul
1325 CE
15. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.
Jenne-Jeno
Totalitarianism
1941
Comfort girls
16. 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.
Balance of power
Keiretsu
1324 CE
Hydrogen bomb
17. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented
Tokugawa Shogunate
Siddhartha Gautama
Hieroglyphics
Alexandria
18. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
1919
Joesph Stalin
Postmodernism
Vasco da Gama
19. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
Diocletian
Sikhism
Shah Abbas I
City state
20. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Christopher Columbus
Harappa
Comfort girls
Jacobins
21. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
Siberia
Repartimiento
Pearl Harbor
Nirvana
22. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)
Nonaligned
NATO
Sigmund Freud
Toussaint L'Ouverture
23. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Constantine
Macedonia
Agora
Hatshepsut
24. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Western Front
Franz Ferdinand
1600
Guild
25. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
Black Death
New Economic Policy
1898
Assimilation
26. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Inca
Chinampas
Fascist Party
Vishnu
27. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Thomas Edison
Hiroshima
Confucius
Francisco Franco
28. 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
Bourgeoisie
Conquistadors
1071 CE
Ming
29. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Zen
1607
Quran
Comfort girls
30. Date: 9/11 Attacks
Revolutions of 1848
2001
Tanakh
Theodosius
31. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
Silk Road
1979
Yellow Turban
Monasticism
32. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
Jizya
Rigveda
Middle Passage
Sanskrit
33. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nazism
Zoroastrianism
John F. Kennedy
Salvador Allende
34. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Porfirio Díaz
Mantra
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Samurai
35. The central text of Daoism.
Siberia
Stoicism
Long March
Tao-te Ching
36. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
Wheel of Life
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tribute system
Woodrow Wilson
37. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Manchus
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Macartney Mission
1607
38. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Samsara
Gens de couleur
Gupta Empire
City state
39. 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.
Colombian Exchange
Shinto
Enlightenment
Salvador Allende
40. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
Max Planck
pictograms
95 Theses
Hoplite
41. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
Monophysites
Botany Bay
220 CE
Sikhs
42. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Weimar Republic
Caravel
Divination
Great Zimbabwe
43. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Hatshepsut
Great Circuit
Tang Revival
Agricultural Revolution
44. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.
Ulama
Safavid Persia
Sun Yat-Sen
Confucius
45. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
Gothic Cathedrals
Muhammad Ali
Mohandas Gandhi
Nation-State
46. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
1600
Modernization
Realpolitik
Muscovy
47. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.
Holocaust
Steel
Horse collar
Otto von Bismarck
48. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Hammurabi
Agricultural Revolution
333 CE
Isfahan
49. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena
Muslim
Napoleon
Taiping Rebellion
Mongols
50. 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
Estates General
Darius I
Gunpowder
Ibn Khaldun