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AP World History
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1. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
deforestation
Zionism
1991
Nonaligned
2. 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.
1948
Benjamin Franklin
Gold Coast
Pearl Harbor
3. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Satrapy
221 BCE
City state
Yin and yang
4. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept
Sumerians
Franz Ferdinand
Alexandria
Ming
5. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
527 CE
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Golden Horde
NATO
6. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war
Zhou
ethnic cleansing
Getulio Vargas
Tito
7. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures
Keiretsu
Habsburg
loess
1949
8. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Teotihuacan
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Buddhism
Jacobins
9. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o
Bourgeoisie
Kievan Russia
Fourteen Points
Bengal
10. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Girondins
Pericles
Balance of power
Capitalism
11. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
Safavid Persia
Puranas
1095 CE
Kievan Russia
12. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Sokoto Caliphate
Absolutism
Kievan Russia
King Charles I
13. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
Delhi Sulatanate
Indentured servitude
Aztecs
Cold War
14. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Darius I
Constitutionalism
Columbian Exchange
Silk Road
15. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
1949
Benito Mussolini
Isfahan
Teotihuacan
16. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Porfirio Díaz
Adolf Hitler
Otto von Bismarck
1848
17. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
Buddhism
Shang
Warring States Period
Wheel of Life
18. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Hellenistic
Diaspora
Italian Renaissance
Manumission
19. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
Jesus
Warring States Period
St. Augustine
Nazism
20. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Submarine telegraph cables
Warring States Period
1941
Cultural imperialism
21. (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).
1756
Great Zimbabwe
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
King Leopold II King of Belgium
22. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.
1588
Witchcraft
Delhi Sulatanate
Maximillien Robespierre
23. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
Liu Bang
Five Year Plans
Columbian Exchange
McCarthyism
24. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Extraterritoriality
Huguenot
Diaspora
Nonaligned
25. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Papacy
Tang Empire
Gujarat
Huguenot
26. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Akhenaten
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Safavid Persia
Akbar
27. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Zheng He
Minoan
Mauryan Empire
Faisal
28. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)
Steppes
Khipu
Semitic
1433 CE
29. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.
Habsburgs
Mughal Empire
Albert Einstein
Mentuhotep I
30. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
Nehru
1054 CE
Atlantic System
Delian League
31. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
Gothic Cathedrals
Persepolis
Gupta Empire
Buddha
32. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Cultural Revolution
Tamil Kingdoms
OPEC
Jesus
33. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Trireme
ethnic cleansing
1899
Monsoon
34. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
1853
Napoleon
Humanism
Mecca
35. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
Roman Senate
Mali
Scholasticism
Karma
36. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Solidarity
Five Year Plans
Octavian
Italian Renaissance
37. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Bartolomeu Dias
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Hegemony
Girondins
38. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
Papyrus
Sudetenland
Juan Peron
Buddha
39. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.
Bolsheviks
Diocletian
John Locke
Hammurabi
40. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
The Golden Triangle
Columbian Exchange
Labor union
1911
41. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.
Benjamin Franklin
Salvador Allende
Ulama
Shang Dynasty
42. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
Zoroastrianism
Dutch West India Company
Socialists
Persian Wars
43. 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.
Karl Marx
Bhagavad-Gita
Rajputs
Yongle
44. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
1453 CE
6th century BCE
Gunpowder
Carthage
45. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Marie Curie
Silk Road
1898
1789
46. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Mauryan Empire
Romanization
Swahili
Witchcraft
47. 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.
732 CE
Marie Curie
Catholic Reformation
Conquistadors
48. Date: Korean War starts
Manumission
Printing press
1950
Byzantine Empire
49. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
1689
Sub-Saharan Africa
1956
Babylon
50. 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.
Great Western Schism
Mein Kampf
The Golden Triangle
Roman Senate
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