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AP World History
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1. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Habsburgs
Malay
Submarine telegraph cables
Empress Dowager Cixi
2. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
2001
Balance of power
6th century BCE
Rama
3. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Diaspora
Albert Einstein
Hegemony
Khmer Empire
4. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
Otto von Bismarck
NATO
Minoan
Tang Empire
5. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Cixi
Mali
African National Congress
6. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Printing press
Ottomans
Italian Renaissance
urbanization
7. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.
Confucianism
Christopher Columbus
Fresco
Congress of Vienna
8. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
Bantu
Sasanid Empire
Persian Wars
Pilgrims
9. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
Abbasid Dynasty
Guomindang
1066 CE
Timur
10. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Macartney Mission
1810s
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nazism
11. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
Octavian
Carthage
Guomindang
Wheel of Life
12. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Ayatollah Khomeini
Battle of Midway
Balfour Declaration
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
13. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Persepolis
Celts
Adolf Hitler
Druids
14. 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.
Totalitarianism
Monasticism
Augustus
assimilation
15. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
Dirty War
Pericles
The Mahdi
Tanakh
16. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Monophysites
Varna
Uigurs
Zhou
17. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Buddha
Tributary system
Shogun
Mandate of Heaven
18. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Dirty War
Nonaligned
Puranas
Byzantine Empire
19. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Peloponnesian War
1324 CE
Hoplite
Dirty War
20. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.
Mestizo
Sikhism
Aztecs
Joseph Stalin
21. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby
Witchcraft
Mesopotamia
Trireme
Zoroastrianism
22. Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.
Witch-hunt
Papyrus
Weimar Republic
Mansa Musa
23. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.
32 CE
1804
United Nations
Zoroaster
24. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
Charles de Gaulle
Shang
Guomindang
1967
25. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
1899
Delhi Sultanate
476 CE
Wheel of Life
26. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.
Great Zimbabwe
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Hittites
Fascism
27. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)
Modernization
Medieval
French Revolution
Bartolomeu Dias
28. 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.
Jesuits
Druids
1954
Aryans
29. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.
Simon Bolivar
Wheel of Life
6th century BCE
Qin
30. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Persian Wars
Shamanism
Opium Wars
31. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Agora
Scientific Revolution
Diaspora
Colonialism
32. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
ideograms
Maya
Hundred Years War
Sub-Saharan Africa
33. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
Labor union
Sudetenland
Four Noble Truths
Italian Renaissance
34. 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
Bhagavad-Gita
Mita
Harappa
35. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
1325 CE
Sub-Saharan Africa
Republic
Cultural Revolution
36. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Nomad
Deism
Zoroaster
37. Date: French Revolution begins
95 Theses
Janissaries
Estates General
1789
38. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war
Tito
Cecil Rhodes
Bartolomeu Dias
Sigmund Freud
39. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Nuclear nonproliferation
Benito Mussolini
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Hellenistic Age
40. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ferdinand Magellan
Devshirme
Zhou dynasty
41. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Sun Yat-sen
French Revolution
Zen
Telegraph
42. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Karma
1871
Imperialism
Thebes
43. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
Philosophes
Iconoclast
Tokugawa Shogunate
Solomon's Temple
44. 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
Pericles
Consul
Confucius
Monophysites
45. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Artha-sastra
Diocletian
Little Ice Age
Gens de couleur
46. 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).
Realpolitik
Iconoclast
Gold Coast
Nongovernmental Organizations
47. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)
Shang Dynasty
Hegemony
Weimar Republic
Malay
48. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.
Ayatollah Khomeini
French Revolution
Creoles
Akbar
49. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Paleolithic
Scientific Revolution
Thebes
Charlemagne
50. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Botany Bay
Hanseatic League
Indulgences
Dalai Lama