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AP World History
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1. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Samurai
Economic sanctions
Aryans
Pax Romana
2. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
Great Western Schism
Mein Kampf
1066 CE
Mandate of Heaven
3. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125
Mamluks
1954
Minoan
Philosophes
4. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
220 CE
1804
Sepoy Mutiny
Bourgeoisie
5. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Stalingrad
Proxy war
pictograms
Charlemagne
6. 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.
Treaty of Nanking
All-India Muslim League
Hinduism
Napoleon Bonaparte
7. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.
Young Turks
Saddam Hussein
Sun Yat-Sen
Shakespeare
8. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.
Buddha
Great Zimbabwe
Mercantilism
Keiretsu
9. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Minoans
Gothic Cathedrals
Aborigine
Long March
10. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.
Maximillien Robespierre
1987
Golden Horde
Absolutism
11. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Golden Triangle
Mantra
Mamluks
12. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.
1789
Joseph Stalin
Mauryan Empire
Samsara
13. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Sepoy
Napoleon Bonaparte
1810s
Delhi Sulatanate
14. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Witch-hunt
Bolsheviks
Sepoy Mutiny
Tokugawa Shogunate
15. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Mestizo
George Washington
Timur
1962
16. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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17. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people
Lama
Apostle Paul
Victorian Age
Sikhs
18. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
527 CE
Repartimiento
Richard Arkwright
Zapata
19. 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.
1618
Huns
Leonardo da Vinci
Tang Empire
20. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Yin and yang
Huns
Islam
Stock exchange
21. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Kepler
1324 CE
1910
Montezuma II
22. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Sokoto Caliphate
Middle Passage
Vishnu
Christopher Columbus
23. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Iron curtain
Balance of power
City state
Indulgences
24. 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.
Aqueduct
Cold War
Laissez faire
Tito
25. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Shinto
Printing press
Holocaust
1756
26. 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.
Sufi
Constantine
Eva Peron
Cuban Missile Crisis
27. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.
Creoles
Nomad
Divine Right of Kings
Pilgrims
28. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Middle Passage
Song Dynasty
Asian Tigers
Papyrus
29. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
Zoroastrianism
Indulgences
Bantu
Keiretsu
30. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Imperialism
Emilano Zapata
Hieroglyphics
Humanism
31. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969
Umayyad Caliphate
Charles de Gaulle
Industrial Revolution
Timur
32. 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.
Pancho Villa
Sepoy Mutiny
Bartolomeu Dias
Mestizo
33. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Gens de couleur
Stock exchange
Vedas
Mohandas Gandhi
34. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)
Iron curtain
1885
Artha-sastra
Berlin Conference
35. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
1935
deforestation
Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe
36. Date: Korean War starts
1950
1453 CE
Pearl Harbor
Moksha
37. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)
Hanseatic League
632 CE
Medina
1979
38. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
Semitic
Ottomans
Auschwitz
1939
39. English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame - a machine that - with minimal human supervision - could spin several threads at onc
Nation-State
European Community
Humanism
Richard Arkwright
40. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
5th century BCE
Ma'at
The Mahdi
Economic sanctions
41. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.
1956
John Locke
Mestizo
Mali
42. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Constitutionalism
Ulama
Empress Dowager Cixi
Sumer
43. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Yuan Empire
Absolutism
Buddhism
Tiananmen Square
44. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Marie Curie
National Assembly
476 CE
Railroads
45. 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.
Octavian
Salvador Allende
Royal African Company
Mita
46. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
1433 CE
Augustus
Republic
Napoleon
47. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
Constantine
Shamanism
Janissary
Dalai Lama
48. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Macartney Mission
McCarthyism
House of Burgesses
Puritans
49. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.
Charles de Gaulle
Paleolithic
1905
Catholic Reformation
50. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Zaibatsu
John F. Kennedy
Laissez Faire
Samurai