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AP World History
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1. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.
Bolsheviks
Young Turks
League of Nations
African National Congress
2. 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.
Leonid Brezhnev
Treaty of Nanking
1863
Guild
3. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Akhenaten
Safavid Persia
Nation-State
Plebeians
4. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Mongols
Diaspora
Ethiopia
1324 CE
5. 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.
Sahel
Forbidden City
Colombian Exchange
Mita
6. Political units in India in the years 700-600 BC. They are the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India. They are the earliest kingdoms set up by the Indo-Aryans migrants to India.
Tennis Court Oath
Minoans
Samurai
Janapadas
7. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Scramble for Africa
Bread and Circuses
1848
4th century CE
8. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
The Golden Triangle
1950
Papyrus
Constitutional Convention
9. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices
1857
Napoleonic Wars
Syncretism
Assimilation
10. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
1095 CE
Kamikaze
Patricians
Enlightenment
11. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Jenne-jeno
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Totalitarianism
Napoleon Bonaparte
12. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog
Babylonian Empire
Jainism
Patricians
Mahabharata
13. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
deforestation
Silk Road
1994
Joseph Stalin
14. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
Mongols
Maya
Hacienda
Mulatto
15. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Grand Canal
Salvador Allende
Herodotus
16. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Fidel Castro
Napoleonic Wars
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Protestant Reformation
17. 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
Safavid Empire
Zionism
Gamal Abdel Nasser
18. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Maya
Hinduism
Terrorism
Balance of power
19. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a
Cortes
Assimilation
Alexandria
Shah Abbas I
20. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Shang Dynasty
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Benito Mussolini
Sudetenland
21. 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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22. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena
Four Noble Truths
1488
Napoleon
Abolition
23. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Huns
1959
Liu Bang
Sasanid Empire
24. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Apostle Paul
1533
1987
Great Zimbabwe
25. 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.
1919
Treaty of Versailles
World Bank
Bourgeoisie
26. 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.
1994
Sandinistas
Umayyad Caliphate
Pilgrimage
27. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
Nikita Khrushchev
Mohenjo-Daro
Glorious Revolution
Congress of Vienna
28. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
Yellow Turban
Neo-Assyrian Empire
African National Congress
Swahili
29. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Artha-sastra
Samurai
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
632 CE
30. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
Berlin Conference
Railroads
Janissaries
Cortes
31. 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
Vedas
Juan Peron
Napoleonic Wars
32. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.
Treaty of Versailles
Byzantine Empire
Hinduism
Stoicism
33. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Asian Tigers
Ottomans
Babylonian Empire
Trireme
34. 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.
Zulu
Treaty Ports
Ferdinand Magellan
Mohandas Gandhi
35. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
John Locke
Sanskrit
Proxy war
3000s BCE
36. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Zaibatsu
1954
1789
Mita
37. 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
Tanzimat
Tang Revival
John Locke
Shah Abbas I
38. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
632 CE
Thebes
Teotihuacan
Repartimiento
39. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Octavian
Zhou
Nomad
Keiretsu
40. Ultraconservative empress in Qing (Manchu) dynasty China. Ruled china in the turbulent late 19th century - not as a true Empress but as an Empress Dowager.
Industrial Revolution
Apostle Paul
Cixi
Macedonia
41. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Code of Hammurabi
Italian Renaissance
Kamikaze
All-India Muslim League
42. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)
1607
Conquistadors
Middle Passage
Artha-sastra
43. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Sigmund Freud
Delhi Sulatanate
Steppes
Sun Yat-sen
44. Chinese man who led the revolution against the Manchu Dynasty.
Chinampas
Sun Yat-sen
Gold Coast
NATO
45. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
Hydrogen bomb
Iron curtain
Chavin
Karma
46. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.
Tamil Kingdoms
Devshirme
Empress Dowager Cixi
Chinampas
47. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
Tennis Court Oath
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Driver
Zoroastrianism
48. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
1919
Railroads
Sahel
Oracle Bones
49. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.
1689
Marie Curie
Black Death
Scientific Revolution
50. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.
Aborigine
Submarine telegraph cables
1905
Khubilai Khan