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AP World History
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1. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Habsburg
Peloponnesian War
Proxy war
Tang Revival
2. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Maori
1848
Collectivization
1899
3. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics
Separate Spheres
Zen
Janapadas
1095 CE
4. 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
Steel
Timur
Franz Ferdinand
1347 CE
5. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Ibn Battuta
cuneiform
Syncretism
Fertile Crescent
6. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Neolithic
Otto von Bismarck
1600
4th century CE
7. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Patricians
Grand Canal
Ottomans
Siddhartha Gautama
8. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
National Assembly
Humanism
Montezuma II
Ayatollah Khomeini
9. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)
Delhi Sultanate
Malay
Abolition
Herodotus
10. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.
Divination
Enlightenment
Napoleonic Wars
Creoles
11. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
Fourteen Points
Tanzimat
Hernan Cortes
Papacy
12. 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.
Centuries
Legalism
Berlin Conference
Witch-hunt
13. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Sikhs
Persia
Trireme
Humanism
14. 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
Francisco Franco
1871
liberalism
1600
15. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Cortes
Three-field system
Islam
Liu Bang
16. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
ethnic cleansing
Liu Bang
1914-1918
Girondins
17. 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.
Revolutions of 1848
Charlemagne
Shinto
Sokoto Caliphate
18. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Iroquois Confederacy
Zhou
Hittites
Theodosius
19. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Helsinki Accords
323 BCE
Alexandria
5th century BCE
20. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Fransisco Pizarro
Monasticism
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Diaspora
21. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Fascism
Macedonia
Tang Empire
1756
22. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
ethnic cleansing
1931
Siberia
Talmud
23. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice
Harappa
Cold War
Confucianism
Fourteen Points
24. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.
Dalai Lama
Teotihuacan
Salvador Allende
1433 CE
25. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.
League of Nations
Herodotus
Fascism
Kamikaze
26. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno
Darius I
Tao-te Ching
Submarine telegraph cables
Otto von Bismarck
27. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
deforestation
Scholasticism
Zionism
Sudetenland
28. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
Printing press
Hieroglyphics
Christopher Columbus
Glorious Revolution
29. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Ziggurat
Hundred Years War
Christopher Columbus
Constitutionalism
30. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.
Mahayana Buddhism
Diaspora
Hegemony
Pericles
31. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.
Constantine
Empress Dowager Cixi
Constantinople
Catholic Reformation
32. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
Benito Mussolini
Hatshepsut
Ziggurat
Monsoon
33. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Muhammad
Adolf Hitler
Helsinki Accords
34. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Epic of Gilgamesh
OPEC
Great Zimbabwe
Delhi Sulatanate
35. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Aztecs
Mecca
Laissez Faire
Juan Peron
36. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
95 Theses
Druids
Perestroika
Safavid Persia
37. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.
Pericles
Hellenistic Age
Nuclear nonproliferation
Eva Peron
38. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.
Chavin
Vladimir Lenin
1935
Crusades
39. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
Monotheism
Shang Dynasty
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Constantinople
40. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Isfahan
Fascist Party
Jacobins
Mandate of Heaven
41. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
Talmud
Augustus
Gothic Cathedrals
Macedonia
42. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
Tang Empire
Swahili
Aborigine
Olmec
43. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
Helsinki Accords
Rama
1607
Mycenae
44. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Long March
Alexander the Great
French Revolution
732 CE
45. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
1931
Empress Wu
Sikhs
Fourteen Points
46. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma
1994
Celts
Aryans
Benito Mussolini
47. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Janissary
Zapata
Tang Empire
Pax Romana
48. (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).
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Suez Canal
1910
Teotihuacan
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.
Olmec
Black Death
Ming
Cyrus II
50. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th
Caesar Augustus
Maximillien Robespierre
Manchuria
Sandinista