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AP World History
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1. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.
Adolf Hitler
Roman Senate
1857
Berlin Blockade
2. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Sasanid Empire
Thomas Malthus
Mestizo
Durbar
3. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights
Marie Curie
Estates General
Cortes
Meiji Restoration
4. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Karma
Indian Ocean
Papacy
Enlightenment
5. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Hundred Years War
Hernan Cortes
Cultural imperialism
Enconmienda
6. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.
Jesus
Peloponnesian War
1857
Bhagavad-Gita
7. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Zhou dynasty
Colonialism
Druids
World Bank
8. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Constitutionalism
Fidel Castro
New Economic Policy
Silk Road
9. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
Assimilation
1607
Hinduism
Mentuhotep I
10. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Mansa Musa
cuneiform
Shinto
Ziggurat
11. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
Hegemony
Balance of power
Alexander the Great
assimilation
12. 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
Cultural Revolution
Sasanid Empire
Absolutism
Emilio Aguinaldo
13. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Shang Dynasty
3000s BCE
Sepoy
Jose Morelos
14. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Peloponnesian War
Josiah Wedgwood
Lusitania
1959
15. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.
Taiping Rebellion
Yurt
Revolutions of 1848
1588
16. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
1949
Ayatollah Khomeini
Laissez faire
Yellow Turban
17. 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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18. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.
Safavid Persia
Mughal Empire
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1962
19. 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.
Asante
Enlightenment
Faisal
Pancho Villa
20. 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.
Francisco Franco
Darius I
Cold War
Holy Roman Empire
21. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Gens de couleur
1810s
Mestizo
Kamikaze
22. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.
Mamluks
Pancho Villa
Quran
Varna
23. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Puranas
Terrorism
Nongovernmental Organizations
Agora
24. 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)
Sun Yat-sen
Qing Empire
Mechanization
Atahualpa
25. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
All-India Muslim League
Nehru
Devshirme
1521
26. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.
Dar al-Islam
Sumer
3000s BCE
Druids
27. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Scramble for Africa
Mantra
Khomeini
Persia
28. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Constantine
pictograms
cuneiform
Long March
29. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Botany Bay
Sigmund Freud
Printing press
30. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Royal African Company
Humanism
Manor
333 CE
31. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Vedas
Mercantilism
ethnic cleansing
Hittites
32. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520
Sasanid Empire
Delhi Sultanate
Colombian Exchange
Laissez Faire
33. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
Olmec
Humanism
527 CE
Safavid Persia
34. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1898
1994
Hieroglyphics
35. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Islam
Hanseatic League
Diaspora
Fransisco Pizarro
36. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
Nazism
Emilio Aguinaldo
All-India Muslim League
Lusitania
37. 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.
Sun Yat-sen
Ayatollah Khomeini
Sikhism
Opium Wars
38. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Telegraph
Constantine
Teotihuacan
Pearl Harbor
39. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Habsburg
Persia
Treaty of Nanking
Mongols
40. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.
1910
Mantra
Nonaligned
Huns
41. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Comfort girls
Muslim
Darius I
Witchcraft
42. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Manumission
Gentry
Separate Spheres
Simon Bolivar
43. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
National Assembly
1853
Shi Huangdi
1885
44. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.
Tokugawa Shogunate
Enlightenment
Labor union
Taiping Rebellion
45. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Herodotus
Umma
Cuban Missile Crisis
Tiananmen Square
46. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Black Death
cuneiform
Monotheism
Gulag
47. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Gujarat
Sandinista
Sigmund Freud
Monsoon
48. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war
Neo-Assyrians
Gens de couleur
Franz Ferdinand
Tito
49. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Witch-hunt
Porfirio Díaz
Ziggurat
Cultural imperialism
50. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Trireme
assimilation
Mughal Empire
Winston Churchill