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AP World History
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1. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav
Mohandas Gandhi
Yongle
Mein Kampf
1905
2. 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
Italian Renaissance
Teotihuacan
1919
Zheng He
3. 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.
1533
Investiture
Hittites
deforestation
4. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
1987
Varna
Zapata
1848
5. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Afrikaners
John Locke
Printing press
Vladimir Lenin
6. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Deism
Tang Revival
Parthians
Panama Canal
7. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.
Chiefdom
Mughal Empire
Holy Roman Empire
Mass production
8. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
1689
Afrikaners
Indian National Congress
Siberia
9. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.
Jacobins
Scientific Revolution
Diocletian
1325 CE
10. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Manchuria
Bolsheviks
Democracy
Aborigine
11. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Pericles
Forbidden City
Bartolomeu Dias
urbanization
12. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Mercantilism
Guild
Mahabharata
Timur
13. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
United Nations
Theodosius
Sokoto Caliphate
Indentured servitude
14. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
Christopher Columbus
1914-1918
Huguenot
5th century BCE
15. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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16. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Muhammad Ali
World Bank
Laissez Faire
Cyrus
17. 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.
Leonardo da Vinci
Shi Huangdi
Faisal
Vedas
18. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
OPEC
Hellenistic Age
Comfort girls
Zimmerman telegram
19. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo
Victorian Age
Franz Ferdinand
Bartolome de Las Casas
Sepoy Mutiny
20. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Peloponnesian War
Mahabharata
Diaspora
Declaration of the Rights of Man
21. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Zimmerman telegram
Balfour Declaration
Stone Age
Great Zimbabwe
22. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
Polis
Hiroshima
Maximillien Robespierre
John Locke
23. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Teotihuacan
Mansa Musa
1905
Silk Road
24. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
1863
Absolutism
Janissary
Meiji Restoration
25. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha
Creoles
Five Year Plans
Democracy
Siddhartha Gautama
26. German leader of the Nazi Party
Shi Huangdi
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
King Leopold II King of Belgium
27. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt
Delian League
OPEC
Cultural imperialism
Cambyses II
28. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
Gothic Cathedrals
Holocaust
Dharma
Battle of Midway
29. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
Indian Civil Service
Collectivization
1453 CE
Tennis Court Oath
30. 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
Zhou dynasty
Rajputs
Empress Wu
31. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Serbia
Mughal Empire
Crusades
1517
32. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Siddhartha Gautama
1905
Opium Wars
Mercantilism
33. 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.
Catholic Reformation
Darius I
Minoans
Zhou dynasty
34. 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.
Zulu
Bhagavad-Gita
1324 CE
Hoplite
35. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Twelve Tables
Inca
Mycenae
Leonardo da Vinci
36. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
1919
Juan Peron
Hoplite
Middle Passage
37. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
Pearl Harbor
Great Zimbabwe
Mandate System
1967
38. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan
Nuremberg Trials
732 CE
Habsburg
Persepolis
39. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
hadith
Columbian Exchange
Tang Revival
1898
40. 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.
Islam
Mauryan Empire
Atahualpa
Marco Polo
41. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Pax Romana
632 CE
Vasco da Gama
Henry the Navigator
42. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)
1618
Ottomans
333 CE
1433 CE
43. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
Olmec
Macedonia
Scramble for Africa
1861
44. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
NATO
Nonaligned
Emilano Zapata
Kepler
45. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Jesuits
Hundred Years War
Sahel
Prince Henry The Navigator
46. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Mass deportation
Girondins
liberalism
Enlightenment
47. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Colombian Exchange
1683
Shamanism
Muhammad
48. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)
Theodosius
Monasticism
Catholic Reformation
Mughal Empire
49. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.
Suleiman the Magnificent
Karl Marx
Song Dynasty
1911
50. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Chiefdom
Ramesses II
Ulama
Imperialism