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AP World History
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1. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
632 CE
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Daoism
Pax Romana
2. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Mercantilism
Jainism
Hammurabi
1863
3. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.
Monsoon
Jesuits
Hieroglyphics
Holocaust
4. 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.
Stock exchange
1433 CE
Congress of Vienna
Holocaust
5. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Nirvana
Mulatto
Deism
Napoleon
6. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Neolithic
Industrial Revolution
732 CE
Serf
7. 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).
Tokugawa Shogunate
Laissez faire
Ulama
1588
8. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.
Babylon
King Charles I
Jizya
Aztecs
9. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
Umayyad Caliphate
Medina
Carthage
Aswan High Dam
10. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
1910
Hacienda
City state
Theodosius
11. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)
1871
Muhammad
1433 CE
Trireme
12. 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.
Persia
Mahayana Buddhism
1857
Toussaint L'Ouverture
13. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Hittites
Julius Caesar
1789
Silk Road
14. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.
Movable type
Jenne-Jeno
1325 CE
Minoans
15. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
Mandate System
Daoism
Persia
Vedas
16. Date: Korean War starts
1950
Muhammad Ali
Zen
Little Ice Age
17. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Iroquois Confederacy
Constantine
Ferdinand Magellan
Janapadas
18. 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
Mercantilism
1776
Mauryan Empire
Botany Bay
19. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
Tang Revival
League of Nations
Zoroastrianism
Hydrogen bomb
20. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
1810s
Indian National Congress
Suez Canal
Teotihuacan
21. 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)
Thebes
Medina
Maximillien Robespierre
Yellow River
22. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Jacobins
Delhi
Bourgeoisie
Auschwitz
23. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Cultural Revolution
Goths
Shakespeare
Manor
24. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
Golden Horde
Pericles
New Economic Policy
Humanism
25. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
Sun Yat-sen
Abolition
Ming
1853
26. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.
1967
Cultural imperialism
Great Zimbabwe
Asante
27. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.
1931
Plebeians
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
1271-1295 CE
28. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
Pilgrimage
Taiping Rebellion
Solidarity
1618
29. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o
Cortes
Consul
Guomindang
1947
30. 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
Plebeians
Muslim
George Washington
31. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.
Revolutions of 1848
Napoleon
Samurai
Warring States Period
32. 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.
Silk Road
Cold War
Neolithic
Eva Peron
33. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
Guomindang
Mohandas Gandhi
Cambyses II
Botany Bay
34. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
Electricity
Nation-State
1989
Ming
35. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
Industrial Revolution
Weimar Republic
Constantine
Napoleon Bonaparte
36. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Syncretism
1991
Laissez faire
Fertile Crescent
37. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
Nuclear nonproliferation
League of Nations
Printing press
Wheel of Life
38. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Cotton
Hammurabi
Great Circuit
Imperialism
39. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.
Young Turks
Emilio Aguinaldo
Harappa
Delhi
40. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hanseatic League
Umma
Khipu
527 CE
41. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Mentuhotep I
Thomas Edison
NATO
Fertile Crescent
42. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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43. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.
Emperor Menelik
Triumvirate
Khubilai Khan
Empress Wu
44. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Horse collar
Cultural imperialism
Uigurs
45. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Yellow Turban
1071 CE
Shakespeare
Aborigine
46. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
Alexander the Great
1929
Humanists
Enlightenment
47. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
Absolutism
Tanakh
Bartholomew Dias
Balance of Power
48. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Medieval
Umma
Enlightenment
Proxy war
49. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Hammurabi
Daoism
323 BCE
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
50. 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.
Gujarat
Indian National Congress
1950
Carthage
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