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AP World History
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1. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
Maximillien Robespierre
Manumission
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Siberia
2. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
1324 CE
Karma
Roman Senate
Cecil Rhodes
3. 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.
liberalism
Marie Curie
Mercantilism
Salvador Allende
4. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Isfahan
Mahayana Buddhism
1899
Nazca
5. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Thomas Edison
Silk Road
Alexander the Great
Mercantilism
6. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
Printing press
Daoism
732 CE
Helsinki Accords
7. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
Weimar Republic
Suez Canal
32 CE
Postmodernism
8. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.
Rigveda
Bantu
Shang Dynasty
Five Year Plans
9. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Kepler
Islam
Olmec
Guomindang
10. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
632 CE
Sandinista
Yellow River
Shah Abbas I
11. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.
Joseph Stalin
liberalism
Balfour Declaration
Crusades
12. 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
Legalism
Plebeians
1521
13. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Juan Peron
1492
Pearl Harbor
Faisal
14. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Olmec
Samurai
Young Turks
Hegemony
15. 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.
Thomas Malthus
Grand Canal
Empress Wu
Herodotus
16. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Iconoclast
Sigmund Freud
Steel
17. A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire - now known as Istanbul
Fidel Castro
Constantinople
Zhou dynasty
Tennis Court Oath
18. 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
Czar
Copernicus
Modernization
19. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder
1517
Bartolomeu Dias
1967
Philip II
20. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Durbar
1810s
The Mahdi
Porfirio Díaz
21. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Papyrus
Druids
1054 CE
Mongol Empire
22. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.
Stoicism
Yin and yang
Manchuria
1949
23. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Lama
Balance of Power
4th century CE
Maya
24. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Balance of power
Max Planck
Atlantic System
Ayatollah Khomeini
25. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)
Royal African Company
Sokoto Caliphate
Mahabharata
Diaspora
26. 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.
Treaty of Nanking
Alexander the Great
Realpolitik
Hegemony
27. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Parthians
Capitalism
Berlin Conference
1857
28. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
Neocolonialism
Civilian Conservation Corps
1853
Indian Civil Service
29. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Nazism
Zhou dynasty
1911
Concordat
30. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach
Francisco Franco
Tang Revival
Armenia
1929
31. Spanish estates that were often plantations
Collectivization
Hacienda
Thomas Malthus
Varna
32. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Trireme
Woodrow Wilson
Ibn Khaldun
Protestant Reformation
33. 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
Hammurabi
Estates General
Solon
Byzantine Empire
34. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.
Napoleonic Wars
Hinduism
Sanskrit
Dalai Lama
35. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.
Nazism
Hegemony
Ghana
Montezuma II
36. 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.
Zhou dynasty
Investiture
Balance of Power
Steppes
37. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Vladimir Lenin
323 BCE
Balance of Power
Hadith
38. 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.
Mentuhotep I
527 CE
Tribute system
Afrikaners
39. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Vedas
Czar
All-India Muslim League
221 BCE
40. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Charlemagne
Guomindang
Great Zimbabwe
Hanseatic League
41. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
Delhi
Yellow River
Solidarity
Plebeians
42. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
Timur
Labor union
Dirty War
Investiture
43. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Manor
Benito Mussolini
Guomindang
Dutch West India Company
44. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
323 BCE
Abbasid Dynasty
Napoleon Bonaparte
Joesph Stalin
45. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)
476 CE
1453 CE
Mughal Empire
Faisal
46. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Harappa
1517
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Third World
47. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)
1347 CE
32 CE
Sufi
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
48. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.
Teotihuacan
Agricultural Revolution
Lama
Sikhs
49. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Sumer
Leonid Brezhnev
Song Dynasty
Realpolitik
50. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Cortes
Cotton
Xia
Thomas Edison