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AP World History
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1. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
Thomas Malthus
1941
1488
Hittites
2. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
NATO
Enlightenment
Mandate of Heaven
1258 CE
3. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Scramble for Africa
Sumerians
Sepoy
Balfour Declaration
4. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Opium Wars
1810s
Mikhail Gorbachev
Stock exchange
5. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh
Buddhism
Crusades
1954
Armenia
6. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.
cuneiform
Peloponnesian War
Augustus
Tiananmen Square
7. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Liu Bang
Getulio Vargas
Buddha
Minoan
8. 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).
Pearl Harbor
Karl Marx
Sepoy Mutiny
Zen
9. 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.
Thomas Malthus
Solidarity
Creole
1987
10. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Emperor Menelik
Diaspora
Bartholomew Dias
Bolshevik
11. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
Charlemagne
Byzantine Empire
Puranas
The Mahdi
12. 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
Huguenot
Railroads
Consul
Safavid Empire
13. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1521
Great Zimbabwe
Copernicus
14. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Safavid Persia
Rama
Fourteen Points
Ayatollah Khomeini
15. 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
Tribute system
Witchcraft
Girondins
Revolutions of 1848
16. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma
Carthage
Celts
Persepolis
1839
17. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
Electricity
Labor union
Liu Bang
Korean War
18. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
1956
1789
Muscovy
vassal
19. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Salvador Allende
1789
Mestizo
French Revolution
20. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
Crystal Palace
1910
1776
Qin
21. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Ferdinand Magellan
Mita
Grand Canal
Albert Einstein
22. The most important work of Indian sacred literature - a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.
Inca
Richard Arkwright
Treaty Ports
Bhagavad-Gita
23. 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
Capitalism
Roman Republic
Jesus
Diocletian
24. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian
Peloponnesian War
Artha-sastra
1919
Balfour Declaration
25. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Darius I
Thomas Edison
Fourteen Points
Gunpowder
26. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Ethiopia
Aswan High Dam
Cyrus
1945
27. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Fidel Castro
assimilation
Extraterritoriality
1871
28. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)
Balance of power
Shah Abbas I
World Bank
Apostle Paul
29. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.
Balfour Declaration
Delhi Sulatanate
John F. Kennedy
Umma
30. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.
Guild
Investiture
Hittites
Junk
31. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Gupta Empire
Mycenae
Perestroika
Fascism
32. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
New Imperialism
Sepoy
Copernicus
Long March
33. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.
Solomon's Temple
Proxy wars
Bengal
Pearl Harbor
34. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
League of Nations
Leonid Brezhnev
Shi'a
Mali
35. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.
Roman Senate
Socialists
Ibn Khaldun
Steam engine
36. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Moksha
Bartolome de Las Casas
Balfour Declaration
Mechanization
37. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A
Humanism
Confucianism
Capitalism
Solomon's Temple
38. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.
Ramesses II
liberalism
Babylonian Empire
Treaty of Versailles
39. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Mass deportation
1533
1453 CE
Yellow Turban
40. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
Persian Wars
Kamikaze
Aristotle
Mercantilism
41. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
Khomeini
Bantu
WTO
Qing Empire
42. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.
Huns
Mecca
Cottage industry
assimilation
43. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
Romanization
Apostle Paul
1898
Leonardo da Vinci
44. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Muscovy
Acropolis
John Locke
Punic Wars
45. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Kepler
Charles Darwin
1433 CE
Concordat
46. 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.
Scientific Revolution
Octavian
Alexandria
Asoka
47. Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.
Dutch West India Company
95 Theses
Proxy wars
Sahel
48. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Tao-te Ching
George Washington
Persian Wars
Young Turks
49. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Ulama
Pax Romana
Shogun
Zhou Dynasty
50. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Warring States Period
1939
Warsaw Pact