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AP World History
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1. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
Suez Canal
Xia
Reconquista
Albert Einstein
2. Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste - and Akbar I married a Rajput princess.
Lama
Manumission
Rajputs
Epic of Gilgamesh
3. Ultraconservative empress in Qing (Manchu) dynasty China. Ruled china in the turbulent late 19th century - not as a true Empress but as an Empress Dowager.
Cixi
Octavian
Deism
Girondins
4. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969
Jacobins
Charles de Gaulle
Olmec
Treaty of Versailles
5. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
1949
2001
Pax Mongolica
Thomas Malthus
6. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.
1959
Caesar Augustus
Zaibatsu
Huns
7. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
Maximillien Robespierre
Helsinki Accords
Legalism
National Assembly
8. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Ibn Khaldun
Hittites
Sandinistas
Plato
9. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
Dar al-Islam
George Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Serf
10. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
Eva Peron
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Indulgence
Repartimiento
11. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Holocaust
Manumission
Sikhs
Shi'a
12. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Ottomans
Babylon
10000 BCE
Maya
13. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Medieval
Great Circuit
Charles Darwin
Zapata
14. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Max Planck
Diaspora
Tanakh
Buddha
15. An adherent of the Islamic religion.
Muslim
League of Nations
Henry the Navigator
Plato
16. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.
Proxy wars
Hieroglyphics
Chinampas
Gold Coast
17. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
George Washington
Sun Yat-Sen
476 CE
Mandate of Heaven
18. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Rajputs
John F. Kennedy
Oracle Bones
Ulama
19. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Octavian
Warring States Period
1804
Vasco da Gama
20. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
1863
Warsaw Pact
Mestizo
Witch-hunt
21. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
1271-1295 CE
Hatshepsut
Mandate of Heaven
Manor
22. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
Shamanism
Scientific Revolution
Janissary
League of Nations
23. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.
Vladimir Lenin
Catholic Reformation
Industrial Revolution
Byzantine Empire
24. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Tang Revival
Albert Einstein
Otto von Bismarck
Telegraph
25. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Swahili
Josiah Wedgwood
Investiture
1905
26. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.
Pancho Villa
Girondins
Teotihuacan
Chinampas
27. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.
1853
St. Augustine
Sikhism
Devshirme
28. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Agricultural Revolution
Scholasticism
United Nations
Solidarity
29. 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.
Franz Ferdinand
Asante
Manumission
Hittites
30. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
Charles Darwin
Steam engine
Alexander the Great
1756
31. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Ottomans
Leonardo da Vinci
Ramesses II
Guomindang
32. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.
Babylon
Afrikaners
Umayyad Caliphate
Imperialism
33. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Asian Tigers
Constitutionalism
Mycenae
Ottomans
34. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
1776
Stone Age
1600
Nation-State
35. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
Solon
Helsinki Accords
1600
1848
36. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Vladimir Lenin
Diaspora
Divination
Zimmerman telegram
37. 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.
Sanskrit
Great Western Schism
Hoplite
Mahayana Buddhism
38. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Uigurs
Champa Rice
1533
WTO
39. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).
legalism
Persian Wars
Nongovernmental Organizations
Umayyad Caliphate
40. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
Tanzimat
Mahabharata
Cold War
1300 BCE
41. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
1959
Nazism
Cyrus II
Dirty War
42. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
Roman Republic
Mahabharata
Diaspora
Caravel
43. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
Iconoclast
Chavin
Scientific Revolution
Sepoy
44. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.
Indulgence
Zapata
Shinto
Manumission
45. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.
Iroquois Confederacy
Ottomans
Sepoy Mutiny
ziggurat
46. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Timur
1947
Nehru
Constantinople
47. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US
Realpolitik
Aryans
Cotton
1861
48. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.
Persepolis
Steel
Pilgrimage
Serbia
49. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Sudetenland
Kepler
Caravel
Mass production
50. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Bhagavad-Gita
Jenne-Jeno
Qin