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AP World History
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1. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.
Fascism
Zen
1066 CE
Fertile Crescent
2. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Manor
1810s
Simon Bolivar
Collectivization
3. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
deforestation
Neolithic
Charles de Gaulle
1533
4. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.
Mauryan Empire
1324 CE
Taiping Rebellion
Realpolitik
5. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Serbia
Buddha
Harappa
220 CE
6. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.
Opium Wars
Teotihuacan
New Imperialism
Umayyad Caliphate
7. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Zimmerman telegram
Rajputs
Stoicism
Long March
8. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
1987
Delhi Sulatanate
Siberia
Christopher Columbus
9. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Mandate of Heaven
Mentuhotep I
Kepler
Mestizo
10. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
Montezuma II
Scholasticism
Great Zimbabwe
Battle of Midway
11. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
Nubians
Absolutism
Sudetenland
Carthage
12. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
City state
Jacobins
Chinampas
Ghana
13. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities - headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806.
Benito Mussolini
1588
Modernization
Holy Roman Empire
14. 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)
Economic sanctions
Auschwitz
5th century BCE
Great Circuit
15. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Republic
Indian Civil Service
Jenne-jeno
Zoroastrianism
16. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
Samurai
Botany Bay
Ulama
Young Turks
17. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Bolshevik
Economic sanctions
Hellenistic
Hanseatic League
18. 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.
Druids
Sun Yat-Sen
King Charles I
Concordat
19. 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.
Ziggurat
Empress Wu
Cyrus
Hittites
20. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Proxy wars
1258 CE
Balfour Declaration
Faisal
21. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.
Gothic Cathedrals
95 Theses
Jainism
African National Congress
22. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.
Alexander the Great
Aztecs
Hydrogen bomb
Monsoon
23. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.
Otto von Bismarck
Zen
Investiture
Indian National Congress
24. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Akbar
deforestation
Satrapy
Hellenistic
25. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
Teotihuacan
Chiefdom
Capitalism
Tanzimat
26. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
Zhou Dynasty
Pax Mongolica
Mikhail Gorbachev
Hadith
27. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520
Delhi Sultanate
1815
Mongols
Jamestown
28. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Warring States Period
Diffusion
Sudetenland
Pancho Villa
29. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
Copernicus
Abolition
Sikhs
95 Theses
30. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
Enclosure Movement
Realpolitik
Mentuhotep I
Monsoon
31. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Pericles
Caliphate
Champa Rice
Enlightenment
32. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)
Nikita Khrushchev
1453 CE
Guild
Hittites
33. Branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Mainly found in Iran and a small part of Iraq. It is the state religion of Iran. A member of this group is called a Shi'ite.
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34. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Solomon's Temple
Creole
Tennis Court Oath
Semitic
35. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Ramesses II
Beijing
Jamestown
Great Circuit
36. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Vishnu
Humanists
Josiah Wedgwood
City state
37. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
Monophysites
Artha-sastra
Trireme
Sun Yat-Sen
38. Associations of businessmen and producers
New Economic Policy
pictograms
Guilds
1607
39. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Mein Kampf
Asian Tigers
1991
Polis
40. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Indulgences
Postmodernism
Warsaw Pact
1066 CE
41. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
Long March
King Charles I
Mongol Empire
Atahualpa
42. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
1347 CE
Umma
George Washington
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
43. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Neo-Assyrians
Papacy
Theravada Buddhism
Steam engine
44. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.
Zionism
Trireme
Steam engine
Hoplite
45. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Manumission
Adolf Hitler
Daoism
Shinto
46. 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.
Romanization
Rama
European Community
Hydrogen bomb
47. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
Polis
Electricity
Repartimiento
Trireme
48. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Patricians
Treaty of Nanking
Sunnis
Mycenae
49. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.
1911
1300 BCE
Shang Dynasty
1517
50. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Abolition
Shinto
Warsaw Pact
Diffusion