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AP World History
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1. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
Parthians
6th century BCE
Opium Wars
Bolsheviks
2. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Druids
Moksha
Darius I
ethnic cleansing
3. 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.
French Revolution
Song Dynasty
Christopher Columbus
Neo-Assyrians
4. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
1853
Balance of power
Steel
Timur
5. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Stalingrad
Persia
Abbasid Dynasty
Postmodernism
6. Date: 9/11 Attacks
Indian Civil Service
Parthians
2001
221 BCE
7. Chinese man who led the revolution against the Manchu Dynasty.
Nonaligned
Nubians
Sun Yat-sen
Hanseatic League
8. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Thomas Edison
Timur
Witch-hunt
vassal
9. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe
liberalism
Sahel
Republic
Paterfamilias
10. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
Goths
1853
1839
Treaty of Versailles
11. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an
Hellenistic Age
Stoicism
ziggurat
Cortes
12. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
Maori
United Nations
Balfour Declaration
Siberia
13. 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.
Aristotle
Stoicism
Tenochtitlan
Ghana
14. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Harappa
Sigmund Freud
Solon
Monsoon
15. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Great Zimbabwe
Czar
Sepoy
Muhammad
16. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
The Golden Triangle
Mycenae
Asante
Babylonian Empire
17. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
New Imperialism
Sasanid Empire
Kepler
Tiananmen Square
18. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Abolition
Long March
1939
Ulama
19. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Babylonian Empire
Puranas
Copernicus
Manumission
20. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.
Alexander the Great
Dalai Lama
Sumer
Cossaks
21. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)
Mercantilism
Atlantic System
Thomas Malthus
Modernization
22. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
Colonization
Alexander the Great
Shakespeare
Dar al-Islam
23. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
Vasco da Gama
Long March
Tao-te Ching
Parthians
24. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.
Glorious Revolution
Zionism
Bartolome de Las Casas
Napoleonic Wars
25. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
Treaty of Versailles
Scholasticism
Great Western Schism
Mandate of Heaven
26. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
1910
Philosophes
Habsburgs
Gunpowder
27. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.
Iroquois Confederacy
Caliphate
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Leonid Brezhnev
28. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Warring States Period
Diaspora
Sokoto Caliphate
Yellow River
29. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Treaty of Versailles
Sigmund Freud
Nuremberg Trials
30. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Nehru
Peloponnesian War
King Charles I
1533
31. 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
Tennis Court Oath
Republic
Jenne-jeno
Patricians
32. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US
Aryans
Cotton
Liu Bang
Napoleonic Wars
33. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
Mass deportation
Laissez faire
Joseph Stalin
Botany Bay
34. 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.
Aztecs
476 CE
Napoleon
Caravel
35. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
Reconquista
Bhagavad-Gita
Ulama
Jesuits
36. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.
Memphis
Francisco Franco
Bolsheviks
Forbidden City
37. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
1533
Hernan Cortes
Three-field system
220 CE
38. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
Korean War
Enconmienda
Daoism
Zulu
39. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Balfour Declaration
Jacobins
Emperor Menelik
Timur
40. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jainism
Sikhs
Mauryan Empire
41. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.
Balance of power
Ziggurat
Fascism
Pearl Harbor
42. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
Puritans
Druids
323 BCE
Roman Republic
43. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses
Faisal
Chavin
Darius I
1258 CE
44. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
Hatshepsut
Charlemagne
Julius Caesar
Imperialism
45. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Encomienda
French Revolution
Theodosius
Josiah Wedgwood
46. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Agora
1994
Centuries
1917
47. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Benito Mussolini
Gentry
Mercantilism
Chiefdom
48. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
urbanization
Teotihuacan
Isfahan
49. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Isfahan
John F. Kennedy
Yellow River
Jizya
50. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Gens de couleur
Congress of Vienna
Mansa Musa
Shakespeare