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AP World History
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1. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Weimar Republic
Martin Luther
Panama Canal
ideograms
2. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Eva Peron
1853
Cultural Revolution
Leonardo da Vinci
3. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
The Mahdi
Parthians
Ulama
Botany Bay
4. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt
Mongols
Tribune
Cambyses II
Abolition
5. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Minoan
Enconmienda
Vedas
Champa Rice
6. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Suez Canal
Vedas
Sun Yat-sen
Socrates
7. 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.
Western Front
Harappa
Jainism
Punic Wars
8. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)
Shah Abbas I
Mechanization
NATO
Stoicism
9. 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.
Sun Yat-Sen
Vedas
Abolition
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
10. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Sun Yat-sen
Mongols
Zapata
Alexandria
11. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Pericles
Indentured servitude
Sahel
4th century CE
12. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Marco Polo
Tributary system
1848
Bhagavad-Gita
13. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics
Separate Spheres
Puritans
Three-field system
Steam engine
14. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
1521
Catholic Reformation
333 CE
Serbia
15. 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.
1571
Indian Civil Service
Siddhartha Gautama
Steel
16. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Stock exchange
Laissez Faire
1871
Bread and Circuses
17. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Little Ice Age
Gujarat
1271-1295 CE
Indian Civil Service
18. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Hadith
Mass production
Shogun
Warsaw Pact
19. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Khomeini
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sigmund Freud
Aryans
20. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia
Oracle Bones
Twelve Tables
Jamestown
Papyrus
21. The English monarch who was beheaded by Puritans (see English Civil War) who then established their own short-lived government ruled by Oliver Cromwell (Mid 1600s).
King Charles I
Cecil Rhodes
Indian National Congress
Malay
22. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Huguenot
Montezuma II
1776
Protestant Reformation
23. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Sikhs
476 CE
Sanskrit
1931
24. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Terrorism
Pancho Villa
Scramble for Africa
European Community
25. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Talmud
Carthage
Ulama
Aborigine
26. '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.
Tanzimat
St. Augustine
1517
Terrorism
27. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.
Twelve Tables
Mercantilism
Zhou
Franklin D. Roosevelt
28. 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.
Guild
5th century BCE
City state
Ottomans
29. 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.
Hegemony
Cottage industry
Asoka
Diaspora
30. 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
Medieval
Stock exchange
Capitalism
Witch-hunt
31. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Minoan
1848
Bartolome de Las Casas
Proxy wars
32. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.
Little Ice Age
Emilio Aguinaldo
Ghana
1815
33. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Shi Huangdi
Huguenot
Balance of power
Mulatto
34. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Khubilai Khan
Great Zimbabwe
Cold War
Plebeians
35. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
1588
Adolf Hitler
Ming
Mestizo
36. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th
Sandinista
Railroads
1571
Devshirme
37. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
Christopher Columbus
Sigmund Freud
Cottage industry
Roman Senate
38. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Assimilation
Zaibatsu
Steel
Four Noble Truths
39. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.
Meiji Restoration
Qin
Guomindang
1948
40. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
1517
Sun Yat-Sen
1066 CE
Sufi
41. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Fresco
Acropolis
Kamikaze
1863
42. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.
1947
Hanseatic League
Julius Caesar
Nuclear nonproliferation
43. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
Twelve Tables
Sikhism
Han
Shamanism
44. Date: end of WWII
Rama
Bartolomeu Dias
1945
Shang
45. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.
Electricity
Tributary system
Nuremberg Trials
Benjamin Franklin
46. 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.
Telegraph
Constitutional Convention
Mycenae
Indian National Congress
47. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Italian Renaissance
Tribune
Tamil Kingdoms
48. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav
Witch-hunt
Yongle
Stock exchange
Code of Hammurabi
49. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Stoicism
All-India Muslim League
Tributary system
Gens de couleur
50. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.
Julius Caesar
1857
Tiananmen Square
Samurai