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AP World History
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1. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Mentuhotep I
Neolithic
Oracle Bones
Hellenistic Age
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
Rajputs
Zimmerman telegram
Estates General
3. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Apostle Paul
Four Noble Truths
Capitalism
vassal
4. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.
Cortes
Nazism
Timur
Indian Civil Service
5. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Cossaks
1533
Zionism
Adolf Hitler
6. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Sasanid Empire
Mycenae
Maximillien Robespierre
7. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
1941
Olmec
Romanization
Four Noble Truths
8. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Great Zimbabwe
Hatshepsut
Marco Polo
Olmec
9. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Constantinople
Rigveda
Goths
Buddha
10. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
Darius I
Steppes
Humanism
Cortes
11. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.
Rama
Balance of Power
Karl Marx
Iroquois Confederacy
12. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Laissez Faire
Stoicism
Acropolis
Rama
13. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Stone Age
Zhou Dynasty
Congress of Vienna
14. 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.
Treaty Ports
Assimilation
Cyrus
World Bank
15. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
1839
1959
Fourteen Points
Nazism
16. An adherent of the Islamic religion.
Totalitarianism
Muslim
Panama Canal
Thomas Malthus
17. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Malay
Pearl Harbor
Scientific Revolution
18. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a
1857
Alexandria
Suleiman the Magnificent
Mantra
19. 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.
1517
Tennis Court Oath
Silk Road
Nasir al-Din Tusi
20. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
Balfour Declaration
Winston Churchill
Hittites
Vasco da Gama
21. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
Pericles
Manchuria
Indentured servitude
1898
22. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma
Celts
The Golden Triangle
Charlemagne
Terrorism
23. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
Timur
Zoroastrianism
Daoism
Champa Rice
24. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the
Mongols
Ethiopia
Apostle Paul
Caravel
25. 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.).
OPEC
Roman Principate
Confucius
Four Noble Truths
26. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The Mahdi
Stone Age
Movable type
27. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
Mao Zedong
Puranas
Taiping Rebellion
1533
28. 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.
Dirty War
Paterfamilias
Nongovernmental Organizations
Congress of Vienna
29. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)
1776
Bourgeoisie
Napoleon Bonaparte
221 BCE
30. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Romanization
Holocaust
Pilgrims
31. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
Congress of Vienna
Hacienda
Carthage
Theravada Buddhism
32. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Asoka
Hieroglyphics
1861
Sigmund Freud
33. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.
European Community
Maya
Deism
1502
34. Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor - but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.
Guilds
Caravel
Byzantine Empire
Muhammad Ali
35. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Empiricism
Suleiman the Magnificent
Macedonia
John Locke
36. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Timur
Fidel Castro
French Revolution
Cottage industry
37. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Minoans
1939
Teotihuacan
Humanism
38. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.
House of Burgesses
Ottomans
Great Zimbabwe
Crusades
39. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.
Julius Caesar
Max Planck
Hittites
Serbia
40. The central text of Daoism.
Tao-te Ching
Colombian Exchange
Tang Revival
Suleiman the Magnificent
41. The process of reforming political - military - economic - social - and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies - often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies.
Modernization
Plato
Encomienda
Socrates
42. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.
Laissez faire
Serbia
Qing Empire
Dalai Lama
43. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Hellenistic
1939
Three-field system
Cyrus
44. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
220 CE
Babylonian Empire
Abbasid Caliphate
Christopher Columbus
45. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
Winston Churchill
Suleiman the Magnificent
1618
Max Planck
46. 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.
Woodrow Wilson
Leonid Brezhnev
ideograms
Battle of Midway
47. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Jose Morelos
1325 CE
Uigurs
Iconoclast
48. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.
Agora
Bread and Circuses
Hoplite
Fidel Castro
49. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Janissaries
Mongol Empire
Aborigine
Suez Canal
50. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Safavid Persia
Sepoy Mutiny
Atahualpa
Wheel of Life