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AP World History
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1. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires
Hittites
Shi Huangdi
Persia
Pax Romana
2. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Akhenaten
Collectivization
Sepoy Mutiny
Papacy
3. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Bourgeoisie
Jacobins
Monotheism
Chiang Kai-Shek
4. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
Guomindang
Long March
hadith
Girondins
5. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.
McCarthyism
Serf
Jamestown
Silk Road
6. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hanseatic League
Epic of Gilgamesh
Liu Bang
Albert Einstein
7. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
Balance of power
Constitutionalism
Treaty of Versailles
OPEC
8. Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.
1517
Sepoy Mutiny
Nazism
Mansa Musa
9. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
Scholasticism
Nikita Khrushchev
1950
Hundred Years War
10. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Laissez faire
Iroquois Confederacy
Caravel
Republic
11. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
ziggurat
Leonardo da Vinci
Joseph Stalin
1857
12. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Charles Darwin
Plebeians
House of Burgesses
Bartholomew Dias
13. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Adolf Hitler
League of Nations
Ramesses II
Revolutions of 1848
14. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Sanskrit
Mahabharata
Beijing
Caravel
15. 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.
1488
Humanism
Suleiman the Magnificent
The Mahdi
16. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).
Meiji Restoration
Papacy
Karl Marx
1939
17. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Colonialism
Harappa
Guild
Marie Curie
18. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S
Rama
Ayatollah Khomeini
Capitalism
Sunnis
19. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
Mesopotamia
Cortes
1571
Emilano Zapata
20. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches
Fascism
WTO
Protestant Reformation
Witch-hunt
21. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.
Middle Passage
Mentuhotep I
Darius I
Sandinista
22. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Mao Zedong
Ulama
King Leopold II King of Belgium
All-India Muslim League
23. 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.
Cyrus II
Taiping Rebellion
Keiretsu
Adolf Hitler
24. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
Aqueduct
Daoism
Vedas
Scholasticism
25. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC
Mahabharata
Nazism
Treaty Ports
Caliphate
26. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
Ottomans
Reconquista
Enconmienda
1095 CE
27. 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
Indian Civil Service
Consul
Roman Republic
Proxy wars
28. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Atahualpa
221 BCE
Nonaligned
29. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
NATO
Separate Spheres
Safavid Persia
Mercantilism
30. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.
Tamil Kingdoms
Wheel of Life
Crusades
Getulio Vargas
31. 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.
Aryans
1600
George Washington
Mauryan Empire
32. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
Jamestown
Nasir al-Din Tusi
League of Nations
Guomindang
33. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
1453 CE
Cultural imperialism
1258 CE
Hinduism
34. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969
1300 BCE
Colonialism
Charles de Gaulle
Indian Ocean
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.
Movable type
Qin
Sun Yat-sen
Marie Curie
36. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)
Zapata
United Nations
Shamanism
Yin and yang
37. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
1931
1935
St. Augustine
Samsara
38. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Quran
Mestizo
Mansa Musa
Empiricism
39. Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture.
Diocletian
Tanzimat
Byzantine Empire
liberalism
40. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Sepoy
Deism
Creole
1492
41. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
Chinampas
Neo-Assyrian Empire
95 Theses
Woodrow Wilson
42. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Sudetenland
Kamikaze
Julius Caesar
Sokoto Caliphate
43. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Francisco Franco
Telegraph
Zhou
Hernan Cortes
44. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600
Mein Kampf
Italian Renaissance
Wheel of Life
Thomas Edison
45. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Perestroika
Maori
Twelve Tables
Shamanism
46. 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.
Meiji Restoration
Girondins
Mahabharata
Triumvirate
47. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices
Puranas
Khomeini
Syncretism
1948
48. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe
John Locke
Congress of Vienna
Conquistadors
liberalism
49. 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.
European Community
Hittites
Teotihuacan
Diaspora
50. 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.
Julius Caesar
Artha-sastra
Meiji Restoration
Catholic Reformation