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AP World History
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1. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).
Islam
Czar
1959
Ferdinand Magellan
2. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Aztecs
Stock exchange
Enclosure Movement
Proxy war
3. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
Indian National Congress
Umma
Puritans
Wheel of Life
4. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
Babylon
Samurai
10000 BCE
Eva Peron
5. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Imperialism
Deng Xiaoping
Capitalism
Kepler
6. Date: independence & partition of India
Fresco
Black Death
Beijing
1947
7. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Humanism
Mecca
Perestroika
Colonialism
8. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Harappa
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Italian Renaissance
Hammurabi
9. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
Sufi
Printing press
Pilgrims
Lama
10. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Agora
Chiefdom
Divine Right of Kings
Ulama
11. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
Darius I
Reconquista
Kamikaze
1949
12. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
Nazca
Francisco Franco
Empress Dowager Cixi
Habsburgs
13. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri
Janissary
Sepoy Mutiny
Gamal Abdel Nasser
The Mahdi
14. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
Proxy wars
Hittites
1905
Black Death
15. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Great Zimbabwe
Alexander the Great
Mass deportation
Nation-State
16. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
Richard Arkwright
Kievan Russia
Berlin Conference
Trireme
17. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Babylonian Empire
Albert Einstein
Eva Peron
Collectivization
18. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Lama
Charlemagne
Industrial Revolution
Terrorism
19. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Dharma
Simon Bolivar
Nirvana
Holocaust
20. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Druids
Sikhism
Sufi
Mali
21. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
220 CE
Cortes
221 BCE
Caliphate
22. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Marco Polo
1533
Deng Xiaoping
Quran
23. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
urbanization
Lama
Congress of Vienna
1839
24. 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
Romanization
City state
Mamluks
1571
25. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Albert Einstein
Mikhail Gorbachev
1095 CE
Maori
26. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
1618
Nirvana
Porfirio Díaz
Paleolithic
27. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.
Faisal
Chiang Kai-Shek
Wheel of Life
Tang Empire
28. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Sokoto Caliphate
Khubilai Khan
1789
1488
29. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age
Stock exchange
Leonardo da Vinci
Teotihuacan
Stone Age
30. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an
Stoicism
Protestant Reformation
Separate Spheres
Janissaries
31. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Pearl Harbor
African National Congress
Faisal
Hydrogen bomb
32. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.
Indian National Congress
Zaibatsu
Great Western Schism
Pilgrimage
33. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia
Ramesses II
Alexander the Great
Mamluks
732 CE
34. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
Caste system
Mein Kampf
Civilian Conservation Corps
Hebrew Bible
35. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.
Holocaust
Thomas Malthus
Conquistadors
Afrikaners
36. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Hebrew Bible
6th century BCE
Aborigine
Scientific Revolution
37. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
Hieroglyphics
Indulgence
Monotheism
Plebeians
38. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Economic sanctions
Talmud
Zulu
Teotihuacan
39. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.
Guomindang
League of Nations
Tiananmen Square
Safavid Persia
40. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
1054 CE
Mestizo
Syncretism
Bourgeoisie
41. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
Mulatto
Afrikaners
Telegraph
Delhi
42. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.
1967
Telegraph
Joesph Stalin
Tribune
43. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia
1689
Jamestown
Minoan
Paleolithic
44. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.
Paterfamilias
1898
Sasanid Empire
Mohandas Gandhi
45. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
Cyrus
Balance of Power
Maya
Crusades
46. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Great Western Schism
Constantinople
pictograms
1919
47. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
cuneiform
Weimar Republic
Zimmerman telegram
Yellow Turban
48. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
Agora
Agricultural Revolution
Wheel of Life
Han
49. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Roman Republic
French Revolution
Thomas Edison
Nirvana
50. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.
Totalitarianism
Roman Republic
Emilano Zapata
House of Burgesses