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AP World History
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1. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Joesph Stalin
Buddha
Proxy war
Constantinople
2. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Beijing
Cuban Missile Crisis
James Watt
Maya
3. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Vladimir Lenin
Mongol Empire
Cixi
4. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Driver
Sudetenland
Absolutism
Manchuria
5. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Asian Tigers
Inca
Leonid Brezhnev
Shi Huangdi
6. 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.)
Yin and yang
Napoleonic Wars
1898
Pax Romana
7. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Pericles
Macartney Mission
Darius I
Holy Roman Empire
8. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear
1588
Olmec
Isfahan
Armenia
9. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Rigveda
Terrorism
Byzantine Empire
Empiricism
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.
Sandinista
Apostle Paul
Five Year Plans
Steppes
11. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe
Ming
liberalism
Jainism
Scientific Revolution
12. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
Devshirme
Agora
Liu Bang
Crusades
13. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.
Israel
1347 CE
Guilds
Caesar Augustus
14. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
Maya
Jacobins
Catholic Reformation
Suez Canal
15. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Driver
Timur
Tanakh
16. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
St. Augustine
Cottage industry
1941
ziggurat
17. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
Treaty of Versailles
Asante
333 CE
Hittites
18. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.
Mongol Empire
Hebrew Bible
Joseph Stalin
Inca
19. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Copernicus
1607
Mandate System
Hittites
20. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S
Capitalism
Puranas
Zhou Dynasty
Bourgeoisie
21. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Huguenot
Constantine
Gunpowder
22. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
Republic
Balance of power
James Watt
Civilian Conservation Corps
23. 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.
Qin
Abolition
Romanization
Daoism
24. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Shang Dynasty
220 CE
95 Theses
4th century CE
25. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Balance of power
1815
Rajputs
1533
26. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
Weimar Republic
Ulama
Witchcraft
Christopher Columbus
27. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Pericles
1979
1588
George Washington
28. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
Labor union
Sun Yat-sen
Indentured servitude
95 Theses
29. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.
Sepoy
Islam
Persepolis
Crusades
30. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Papacy
Akhenaten
1517
1054 CE
31. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
WTO
Scramble for Africa
Sunnis
1898
32. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Sun Yat-Sen
All-India Muslim League
Joseph Stalin
Concordat
33. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Safavid Persia
Siberia
Mestizo
Kamikaze
34. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.
Bourgeoisie
Bartholomew Dias
Zhou dynasty
Steel
35. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog
Zulu
Jainism
Treaty of Versailles
Humanism
36. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.
1756
Getulio Vargas
Maori
5th century BCE
37. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
Neo-Assyrian Empire
1948
Bengal
Hadith
38. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Chinampas
Zheng He
Daoism
Jizya
39. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
Zoroastrianism
Sikhism
Babylonian Empire
Capitalism
40. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).
Mass production
Czar
Zoroastrianism
Grand Canal
41. A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire - now known as Istanbul
Republic
Ming
Constantinople
Mechanization
42. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Balance of Power
Sub-Saharan Africa
Fransisco Pizarro
Ming
43. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Manumission
1789
Sudetenland
1776
44. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Agora
Manchus
Song Dynasty
Huns
45. 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.
1898
Safavid Persia
Janissaries
Siddhartha Gautama
46. Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture.
Olmec
Byzantine Empire
Jose Morelos
Yurt
47. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
323 BCE
Xia
Jenne-jeno
Sokoto Caliphate
48. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Capitalism
476 CE
Zimmerman telegram
49. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Bartolomeu Dias
Atlantic System
Shakespeare
Karl Marx
50. 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
The Golden Triangle
Assimilation
Tao-te Ching
Driver