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AP World History
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1. 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.
Rajputs
Suez Canal
Jesuits
Opium Wars
2. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
Liu Bang
1071 CE
Catholic Reformation
1607
3. 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.
1839
Shamanism
Great Western Schism
Buddha
4. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach
Aborigine
ziggurat
Tang Revival
Botany Bay
5. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Albert Einstein
Sumer
Ulama
Franz Ferdinand
6. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Mahayana Buddhism
Mass production
Cossaks
Black Death
7. 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
732 CE
Buddhism
Treaty of Versailles
Indian National Congress
8. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Assimilation
3000s BCE
Ayatollah Khomeini
1571
9. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
Treaty of Versailles
Zen
Submarine telegraph cables
Darius I
10. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Wheel of Life
1054 CE
Delian League
Polis
11. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.
New Economic Policy
St. Augustine
Constantine
Varna
12. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
Lama
Delhi
Sikhism
Mongols
13. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
Hebrew Bible
Deism
Mantra
14. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.
Yurt
1571
95 Theses
Hammurabi
15. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Caste system
Ibn Khaldun
Ulama
Jizya
16. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nazca
All-India Muslim League
Olmec
17. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Forbidden City
Constitutional Convention
Asoka
Polis
18. 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.
Ottomans
Delian League
Ghana
The Mahdi
19. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Movable type
Jesus
Satrapy
The Mahdi
20. 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
Empress Dowager Cixi
Samurai
Persian Wars
1618
21. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.
Semitic
527 CE
Colonization
Solon
22. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety - fulfill vows - or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions - such as the Muslim journey to Mecca.
Imperialism
Czar
Pilgrimage
1967
23. A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native America
Alexander the Great
Encomienda
Hieroglyphics
Neo-Assyrians
24. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Realpolitik
Nazca
Constantine
hadith
25. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Aristotle
Pericles
Vladimir Lenin
Pilgrimage
26. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
Han
Fascism
The Mahdi
Zionism
27. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Pearl Harbor
Mass deportation
3000s BCE
Benito Mussolini
28. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Shogun
1979
Jizya
Hanseatic League
29. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
Alexander the Great
St. Augustine
1271-1295 CE
Varna
30. 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
Shang
Vasco da Gama
loess
Iconoclast
31. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Pancho Villa
Charlemagne
Industrial Revolution
Constantine
32. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
1054 CE
Safavid Persia
Mecca
1756
33. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)
Montezuma II
Treaty of Nanking
Sun Yat-sen
Thebes
34. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Joint-stock company
Black Death
Zaibatsu
1959
35. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.
Montezuma II
Pericles
Cortes
Song Dynasty
36. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top
Janissaries
ziggurat
Young Turks
Hatshepsut
37. System of government in which all 'citizens' (however defined) have equal political and legal rights - privileges - and protections - as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Demographic Transition -A change in th
Laissez faire
Guild
Democracy
Maya
38. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.
1979
Tamil Kingdoms
Francisco Franco
Indian National Congress
39. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Mahabharata
Samurai
Solon
40. 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.
Deng Xiaoping
Rajputs
Roman Senate
Aqueduct
41. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Mantra
32 CE
Yurt
1939
42. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Collectivization
Caravel
Indian National Congress
Hammurabi
43. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)
Khipu
Napoleon
Keiretsu
527 CE
44. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Joesph Stalin
Muscovy
Shang
Sikhs
45. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)
Gothic Cathedrals
Adolf Hitler
Bartolome de Las Casas
3000s BCE
46. 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)
Conquistadors
Saddam Hussein
Marco Polo
Shah Abbas I
47. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Nation-State
Christopher Columbus
Creole
1949
48. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Khmer Empire
1789
Jacobins
Mandate System
49. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
Republic
Sasanid Empire
Mughal Empire
Macedonia
50. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.
Republic
African National Congress
Gupta Empire
Yellow Turban