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AP World History
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1. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
1618
Delhi Sulatanate
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Liu Bang
2. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
Auschwitz
Indian National Congress
Druids
Mycenae
3. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Marco Polo
Fransisco Pizarro
Delian League
Saddam Hussein
4. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.
Huguenot
Mohandas Gandhi
Mita
Crusades
5. 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
Four Noble Truths
Aristotle
Serf
Consul
6. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Paterfamilias
Cixi
Hernan Cortes
Shah Abbas I
7. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).
Confucius
Pancho Villa
Pax Mongolica
Creole
8. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Plato
Constitutionalism
Yurt
French Revolution
9. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
Thebes
1885
Atahualpa
Guild
10. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
Tenochtitlan
Medina
Porfirio Díaz
James Watt
11. 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.
1911
1588
Simon Bolivar
Tennis Court Oath
12. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Zheng He
Isfahan
Yongle
Vishnu
13. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America
Neocolonialism
Xia
Capitalism
1950
14. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the
Diocletian
Hellenistic
Shang
Shakespeare
15. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
2001
Capitalism
Mandate of Heaven
Constitutionalism
16. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
OPEC
Zen
Mahabharata
Sanskrit
17. 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.
Bartolome de Las Casas
Muhammad
The Mahdi
Crystal Palace
18. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Economic sanctions
Empiricism
Paleolithic
Plebeians
19. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.
Mikhail Gorbachev
New Economic Policy
Rama
Oracle Bones
20. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
Mikhail Gorbachev
Estates General
Pericles
Laissez faire
21. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Tokugawa Shogunate
WTO
Modernization
Safavid Persia
22. 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.
Muscovy
Bourgeoisie
Carthage
Golden Horde
23. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Code of Hammurabi
Mass production
Diocletian
1939
24. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
Cossaks
1689
1956
Great Zimbabwe
25. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.
Huns
1789
Diffusion
Fresco
26. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Zoroastrianism
Janissary
Tiananmen Square
John F. Kennedy
27. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu
Uigurs
Shang
Monophysites
Great Circuit
28. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices
Balance of power
Karl Marx
Syncretism
Mesopotamia
29. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.
Babylonian Empire
Investiture
Chavin
Colonization
30. 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.
1618
10000 BCE
Rajputs
Armenia
31. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125
Woodrow Wilson
Repartimiento
Mamluks
Chinampas
32. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
1947
Hegemony
Hellenistic Age
Napoleon
33. 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
Jainism
Tokugawa Shogunate
Constantine
Zoroastrianism
34. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Submarine telegraph cables
Mali
Holy Roman Empire
Abolition
35. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Teotihuacan
Ayatollah Khomeini
Pericles
Franz Ferdinand
36. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Shang
Albert Einstein
Goths
Minoan
37. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.
Caesar Augustus
Christopher Columbus
Treaty of Versailles
1861
38. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
1956
Beijing
ziggurat
Chiang Kai-Shek
39. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI
Paterfamilias
Tennis Court Oath
Junk
Chiang Kai-Shek
40. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Balfour Declaration
Yellow Turban
Stoicism
41. (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).
Aryans
Patricians
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Steel
42. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.
Mali
Monsoon
Benjamin Franklin
Chinampas
43. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
1948
Korean War
Byzantine Empire
Neo-Assyrians
44. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i
Mahabharata
Balance of Power
Ibn Khaldun
Chiefdom
45. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
Benjamin Franklin
Shah Abbas I
Roman Republic
Asian Tigers
46. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
1066 CE
Nehru
City state
527 CE
47. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.
Mesopotamia
Five Year Plans
Divine Right of Kings
Nomad
48. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
1935
Great Western Schism
Mercantilism
Vladimir Lenin
49. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
Cyrus II
1945
Aborigine
1935
50. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian War
Mughal Empire
Hellenistic Age
Hegemony