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AP World History
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1. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Joesph Stalin
Hadith
Ayatollah Khomeini
Zoroastrianism
2. Date: French Revolution begins
Keiretsu
Macartney Mission
Pax Mongolica
1789
3. 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.
John Locke
Janissaries
Tanakh
1917
4. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Keiretsu
Parthians
Francisco Franco
Akbar
5. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Bengal
Ghana
Herodotus
Stoicism
6. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Jose Morelos
Perestroika
Lama
Sokoto Caliphate
7. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Third World
Terrorism
Rigveda
Darius I
8. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.
Pax Romana
Semitic
Safavid Persia
Samsara
9. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.
1533
Vasco da Gama
Akbar
Bolsheviks
10. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Triumvirate
Tiananmen Square
Octavian
11. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Treaty of Versailles
Aswan High Dam
Israel
urbanization
12. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)
Bartolomeu Dias
United Nations
cuneiform
Otto von Bismarck
13. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
1905
Dalai Lama
Silk Road
333 CE
14. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Dutch West India Company
Mandate of Heaven
Kepler
Montezuma II
15. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
1517
476 CE
Song Dynasty
Balfour Declaration
16. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Scramble for Africa
Swahili
1857
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
17. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.
Muscovy
Modernization
Separate Spheres
Little Ice Age
18. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
Great Zimbabwe
Carthage
Minoans
St. Augustine
19. Date: Korean War starts
Black Death
Maximillien Robespierre
1950
1962
20. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
1689
Tang Empire
Sunnis
Bartolomeu Dias
21. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
10000 BCE
1533
assimilation
Semitic
22. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.
Sepoy
Proxy wars
Getulio Vargas
Eva Peron
23. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Afrikaners
Jacobins
1600
1607
24. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
1941
John Locke
Timur
Sanskrit
25. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Mahabharata
Shakespeare
Apostle Paul
Inca
26. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.
Chavin
Mentuhotep I
Romanization
Indulgences
27. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
1324 CE
Medina
Zimmerman telegram
Neocolonialism
28. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.
Benjamin Franklin
Diaspora
Fertile Crescent
Republic
29. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Joseph Stalin
1931
Constantinople
Xia
30. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
1492
Daoism
United Nations
Steam engine
31. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
Bantu
Babylonian Empire
Timur
Solomon's Temple
32. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
Great Zimbabwe
Consul
Dar al-Islam
1804
33. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.
Indulgence
Marie Curie
Adolf Hitler
Hadith
34. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Revolutions of 1848
Mass production
Cyrus
35. 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.
Centuries
Cortes
Qin
Henry the Navigator
36. 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
Constantine
Confucianism
Apostle Paul
1533
37. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Balance of Power
Buddha
Middle Passage
Hammurabi
38. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
1954
Middle Passage
Delhi
Vedas
39. 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.
Horse collar
City state
Balfour Declaration
Silk Road
40. 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.
Xia
Great Western Schism
Teotihuacan
Czar
41. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
Dharma
Pax Mongolica
Sudetenland
Sepoy
42. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Joesph Stalin
6th century BCE
Solomon's Temple
Salvador Allende
43. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
Charles de Gaulle
Sumer
95 Theses
Long March
44. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses
Khmer Empire
Darius I
Jenne-jeno
Bantu
45. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Aristotle
ziggurat
Tang Empire
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
46. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Ulama
Teotihuacan
Mass deportation
Laissez Faire
47. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Asoka
Khmer Empire
legalism
Nonaligned
48. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.
Yongle
1991
Bourgeoisie
Mohandas Gandhi
49. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Rigveda
Joesph Stalin
Macedonia
1517
50. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.
Caliphate
Mahayana Buddhism
Vedas
Crusades