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AP World History
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1. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Monsoon
Champa Rice
Cuban Missile Crisis
Aswan High Dam
2. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Chavin
Meiji Restoration
Nuremberg Trials
Taiping Rebellion
3. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Champa Rice
Neo-Assyrians
1991
Young Turks
4. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Jizya
1905
Mita
5. 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.
Zhou dynasty
Movable type
Socrates
Keiretsu
6. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.
Solidarity
Goths
Bourgeoisie
Gentry
7. 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
Grand Canal
1689
Young Turks
8. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)
Medina
1839
Humanism
Darius I
9. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
Mestizo
Iconoclast
Hellenistic
Abbasid Dynasty
10. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Kievan Russia
ethnic cleansing
Minoans
Concordat
11. 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.
Maya
Victorian Age
Timur
Jizya
12. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
1258 CE
Scramble for Africa
Meiji Restoration
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
13. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
Zimmerman telegram
Puritans
Byzantine Empire
Babylon
14. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)
Sudetenland
527 CE
Mercantilism
Fertile Crescent
15. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)
Theodosius
Constantine
Cecil Rhodes
Chavin
16. 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.
Babylon
Romanization
Bartholomew Dias
Mauryan Empire
17. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Berlin Blockade
Agricultural Revolution
Pax Romana
Maya
18. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
Hinduism
Socrates
Yellow Turban
19. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
1258 CE
Prince Henry The Navigator
Berlin Blockade
Ayatollah Khomeini
20. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
Bantu
Devshirme
deforestation
Czar
21. An adherent of the Islamic religion.
Muslim
Vladimir Lenin
Zaibatsu
Comfort girls
22. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
Salvador Allende
Tanzimat
Roman Republic
Aryans
23. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
1917
1853
Khmer Empire
476 CE
24. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Beijing
Pericles
Sepoy
cuneiform
25. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
Parthians
Stoicism
Stone Age
732 CE
26. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
1853
1502
Monophysites
United Nations
27. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.
Parthians
Monotheism
Tamil Kingdoms
Punic Wars
28. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.
1810s
Jizya
Roman Principate
Crystal Palace
29. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga
Royal African Company
Shah Abbas I
Revolutions of 1848
Proxy wars
30. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
Great Western Schism
Caravel
Glorious Revolution
Sasanid Empire
31. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.
Battle of Midway
Gentry
Hittites
1492
32. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Buddhism
Emperor Menelik
Apostle Paul
Columbian Exchange
33. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Telegraph
Nazism
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Epic of Gilgamesh
34. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.
Ethiopia
Little Ice Age
527 CE
Epic of Gilgamesh
35. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Labor union
Five Year Plans
Albert Einstein
Ghana
36. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.
Khmer Empire
Gupta Empire
Benito Mussolini
Tributary system
37. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
National Assembly
Hadith
1756
Capitalism
38. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
Scramble for Africa
Imperialism
Cottage industry
Franklin D. Roosevelt
39. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century
Railroads
Vasco da Gama
King Charles I
Delhi Sulatanate
40. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Mahayana Buddhism
1899
Joint-stock company
Yin and yang
41. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Iroquois Confederacy
Mahayana Buddhism
Monasticism
Grand Canal
42. 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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43. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Diaspora
Mecca
assimilation
Caesar Augustus
44. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
Nuremberg Trials
Augustus
Hebrew Bible
Indulgence
45. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Apostle Paul
Manchus
Dirty War
James Watt
46. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility
1300 BCE
1433 CE
Hegemony
Caste system
47. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI
Eva Peron
Hellenistic
Albert Einstein
Tennis Court Oath
48. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.
Nazism
Khmer Empire
Mecca
Delhi Sulatanate
49. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Plato
Great Zimbabwe
1898
Delhi
50. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Cyrus
Swahili
Neolithic
Columbian Exchange