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AP World History
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1. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
1989
Chinampas
Consul
Karma
2. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people
Woodrow Wilson
Consul
Panama Canal
Victorian Age
3. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Ming
Nazca
ziggurat
Gulag
4. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)
Mahabharata
221 BCE
Uigurs
1954
5. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
Memphis
Iroquois Confederacy
House of Burgesses
1939
6. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1861
Rajputs
Islam
1950
7. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
Darius I
Byzantine Empire
Steam engine
Creoles
8. 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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9. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
Muslim
Babylon
Nuclear nonproliferation
Plebeians
10. 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.
Movable type
Medieval
Siddhartha Gautama
Trireme
11. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil
Kievan Russia
Swahili
WTO
Zoroastrianism
12. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
Nomad
1683
Silk Road
Socialists
13. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
1618
Augustus
Hiroshima
Driver
14. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Alexander the Great
Iroquois Confederacy
Leonardo da Vinci
Enlightenment
15. German leader of the Nazi Party
St. Augustine
Italian Renaissance
Assimilation
Adolf Hitler
16. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
Ibn Khaldun
Mandate System
Nikita Khrushchev
Cambyses II
17. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Rigveda
Polis
Sepoy Mutiny
Stoicism
18. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.
European Community
Zoroaster
New Imperialism
Salvador Allende
19. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Charlemagne
Electricity
Pancho Villa
Hittites
20. The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region.
Botany Bay
Timur
Chavin
Code of Hammurabi
21. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.
Bolshevik
pictograms
1492
1917
22. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
1492
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Korean War
Realpolitik
23. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
1054 CE
Abbasid Dynasty
Thebes
Muscovy
24. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Asoka
Safavid Empire
Guilds
Bolshevik
25. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
Hundred Years War
Umma
1325 CE
Maya
26. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Three-field system
Steppes
Trireme
Panama Canal
27. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Stalingrad
Charles de Gaulle
Mansa Musa
Zoroaster
28. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.
ziggurat
Bantu
assimilation
Chinampas
29. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Zaibatsu
Akbar
Mongol Empire
Macartney Mission
30. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Pericles
Yongle
Hebrew Bible
ideograms
31. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Vladimir Lenin
Assimilation
1271-1295 CE
Abbasid Caliphate
32. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A
Darius I
Holy Roman Empire
Humanism
Mandate System
33. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
Medina
Enclosure Movement
Nation-State
Mahayana Buddhism
34. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
Serbia
1898
Cuban Missile Crisis
New Imperialism
35. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Bread and Circuses
Extraterritoriality
1258 CE
Mycenae
36. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh
Ayatollah Khomeini
Macedonia
Buddhism
Aryans
37. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
Neo-Assyrians
Leonid Brezhnev
Empiricism
Sikhs
38. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Serbia
Holocaust
Otto von Bismarck
City state
39. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.
Zen
Serf
Jamestown
Pax Mongolica
40. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
pictograms
Vladimir Lenin
Neo-Assyrians
Jacobins
41. 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
Sasanid Empire
Long March
Shi'a
Getulio Vargas
42. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Mein Kampf
1521
Akhenaten
Mongols
43. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
Tao-te Ching
Cotton
Punic Wars
Memphis
44. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.
Treaty Ports
Fascism
vassal
Jose Morelos
45. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
Apostle Paul
Printing press
Carthage
ideograms
46. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Vedas
1987
Proxy wars
Nongovernmental Organizations
47. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.
Maya
Black Death
Sumer
Siddhartha Gautama
48. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Tao-te Ching
Nuclear nonproliferation
Constantine
Tennis Court Oath
49. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Mao Zedong
Diffusion
Alexandria
Umma
50. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens
Persian Wars
Hanseatic League
Enconmienda
Proxy wars