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AP World History
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1. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
Hittites
Mita
Emilano Zapata
Akbar
2. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
Hebrew Bible
1815
Khmer Empire
Hatshepsut
3. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Simon Bolivar
Inca
Octavian
Qin
4. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Great Zimbabwe
Mahayana Buddhism
Montezuma II
Zoroaster
5. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
1917
Rajputs
Separate Spheres
Socialists
6. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
1488
Rigveda
Labor union
Vishnu
7. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)
Mercantilism
Ibn Khaldun
Fransisco Pizarro
NATO
8. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
Puranas
Tenochtitlan
Caravel
Dalai Lama
9. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Pericles
Enlightenment
OPEC
vassal
10. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Yellow Turban
Hellenistic
1433 CE
1885
11. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age
Colonialism
Centuries
Mandate of Heaven
Stone Age
12. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
32 CE
Safavid Empire
European Community
Romanization
13. 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
Kamikaze
Holocaust
Joseph Stalin
14. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Hatshepsut
Sufi
Guild
Victorian Age
15. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Varna
Cold War
Minoans
Sun Yat-Sen
16. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
1324 CE
Cecil Rhodes
Albert Einstein
Enconmienda
17. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Dutch West India Company
Samsara
Paleolithic
Deism
18. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Ptolemy
Conquistadors
Gujarat
Crusades
19. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.
Divine Right of Kings
Paleolithic
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Mesopotamia
20. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
Teotihuacan
Absolutism
Mecca
1054 CE
21. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
632 CE
Manchus
Habsburg
Tamil Kingdoms
22. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
ziggurat
Delian League
Fascist Party
Vedas
23. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty
Nuclear nonproliferation
Christopher Columbus
Martin Luther
Qin
24. 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.
1324 CE
Mohandas Gandhi
Joesph Stalin
Prince Henry The Navigator
25. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600
1488
Italian Renaissance
Driver
Varna
26. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.
Mauryan Empire
Twelve Tables
Gunpowder
Holocaust
27. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.
Mauryan Empire
Mamluks
ideograms
New Imperialism
28. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Golden Horde
1521
Umayyad Caliphate
Devshirme
29. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
Witch-hunt
Cortes
Hittites
1861
30. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Monotheism
Gulag
Zimmerman telegram
31. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Three-field system
Albert Einstein
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Creole
32. Associations of businessmen and producers
Mycenae
Fertile Crescent
Guilds
Marie Curie
33. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.
Humanism
New Imperialism
Zhou
Mali
34. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
Twelve Tables
Kepler
Crusades
1994
35. 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
Buddhism
Polis
Electricity
Capitalism
36. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
Macartney Mission
Yellow River
Chinampas
Artha-sastra
37. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.
Zionism
Bolsheviks
Zulu
Constantine
38. 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.
Getulio Vargas
Proxy war
Winston Churchill
Reconquista
39. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav
Pax Romana
1502
Paleolithic
Yongle
40. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
1931
Harappa
Peloponnesian War
Celts
41. 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.
Hiroshima
Umma
Semitic
Mercantilism
42. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Investiture
Manchus
5th century BCE
43. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.
Kamikaze
Asante
Mita
Third World
44. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.
League of Nations
vassal
1994
Leonardo da Vinci
45. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
732 CE
Sanskrit
1300 BCE
Tang Revival
46. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
Monophysites
Marie Curie
Muhammad Ali
Mughal Empire
47. 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
Middle Passage
Habsburg
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
527 CE
48. 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.
Peloponnesian War
Movable type
Mali
Celts
49. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Third World
Great Circuit
ideograms
Leonardo da Vinci
50. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Hieroglyphics
Holocaust
Humanism
Ramesses II