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AP World History
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1. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.
1947
Congress of Vienna
Realpolitik
Teotihuacan
2. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Western Front
Ziggurat
Catholic Reformation
Mandate of Heaven
3. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Mita
Paleolithic
Isfahan
Huguenot
4. 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.
Steppes
Suez Canal
Nazism
United Nations
5. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno
Zen
Submarine telegraph cables
Enlightenment
Napoleon
6. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Paterfamilias
1756
World Bank
deforestation
7. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Crusades
Agora
1987
Juan Peron
8. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Steam engine
Parthians
Enlightenment
Copernicus
9. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.
Afrikaners
Sudetenland
Legalism
Pax Romana
10. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
Royal African Company
Uigurs
Sanskrit
Albert Einstein
11. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Vishnu
Economic sanctions
Qin
6th century BCE
12. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
Inca
Code of Hammurabi
Repartimiento
13. Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the in these cities - foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.
Conquistadors
Treaty Ports
Jenne-jeno
1857
14. 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
Bolshevik
Simon Bolivar
Divination
15. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)
Woodrow Wilson
John F. Kennedy
Thebes
Eva Peron
16. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Paleolithic
Artha-sastra
Alexander the Great
2001
17. 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.
Holocaust
Indulgences
hadith
Holy Roman Empire
18. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Holocaust
Atahualpa
Glorious Revolution
Electricity
19. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Peloponnesian War
Perestroika
Four Noble Truths
Czar
20. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
James Watt
Peloponnesian War
1967
deforestation
21. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Syncretism
Tributary system
Qing Empire
Nikita Khrushchev
22. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
Albert Einstein
1919
Divination
Jenne-jeno
23. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Champa Rice
Manchus
Scientific Revolution
Battle of Midway
24. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
Scientific Revolution
Korean War
Neo-Assyrians
Toussaint L'Ouverture
25. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.
Octavian
Sokoto Caliphate
Proxy wars
Josiah Wedgwood
26. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)
Delian League
Monasticism
Punic Wars
Yurt
27. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Civilian Conservation Corps
Terrorism
Abolition
Sub-Saharan Africa
28. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
Delhi Sulatanate
1618
cuneiform
Catholic Reformation
29. 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.
Mestizo
Vedas
Gunpowder
Pancho Villa
30. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
1776
Cixi
Postmodernism
Indian Ocean
31. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Divine Right of Kings
Hammurabi
Plebeians
Revolutions of 1848
32. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Mestizo
1517
Emperor Menelik
527 CE
33. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Afrikaners
Theodosius
Bartolomeu Dias
Ferdinand Magellan
34. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Sikhs
Stoicism
Pax Mongolica
Sun Yat-sen
35. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches
1066 CE
Protestant Reformation
Electricity
Varna
36. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.
Puritans
Maori
Aristotle
Yurt
37. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
1905
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Druids
Prince Henry The Navigator
38. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Quran
Indulgences
Buddha
Iroquois Confederacy
39. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Indian Ocean
John F. Kennedy
Iconoclast
40. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.
Salvador Allende
1607
Druids
1492
41. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
1324 CE
Hernan Cortes
Gupta Empire
Ming
42. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.
Talmud
Armenia
Royal African Company
cuneiform
43. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the
Apostle Paul
Junk
Conquistadors
Witch-hunt
44. 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
Hydrogen bomb
Scientific Revolution
Buddhism
Carthage
45. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
1810s
Mycenae
John Locke
Imperialism
46. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Medieval
Panama Canal
Economic sanctions
47. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Capitalism
liberalism
Mahabharata
48. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
Delian League
Botany Bay
Revolutions of 1848
Trireme
49. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.
Steppes
Mohenjo-Daro
Constantinople
1258 CE
50. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia
Jamestown
Thomas Malthus
Tamil Kingdoms
Pericles