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AP World History
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1. 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.
Theodosius
Hellenistic
Five Year Plans
Cyrus II
2. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
WTO
Lama
cuneiform
Daoism
3. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Code of Hammurabi
Stock exchange
Hatshepsut
4. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A
Jainism
Legalism
Mandate System
Humanism
5. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
Auschwitz
Battle of Midway
Quran
Janissary
6. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)
Jose Morelos
Darius I
Berlin Blockade
1885
7. 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.
Bourgeoisie
1571
Akhenaten
Panama Canal
8. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
323 BCE
Lusitania
Byzantine Empire
Carthage
9. 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
Mycenae
Daoism
Collectivization
10. 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.
Malay
Sudetenland
Grand Canal
Charles Darwin
11. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Manumission
Ottomans
Silk Road
Saddam Hussein
12. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
Janissary
Porfirio Díaz
Teotihuacan
Gunpowder
13. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Roman Principate
Gunpowder
476 CE
Extraterritoriality
14. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Teotihuacan
Abolition
1488
Balance of power
15. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
Zoroastrianism
1600
Aborigine
Paterfamilias
16. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Comfort girls
Proxy war
1931
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.
Enclosure Movement
ideograms
Chinampas
Charlemagne
18. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Enclosure Movement
Colonialism
Hittites
Christopher Columbus
19. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
Mamluks
1756
Humanism
Young Turks
20. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Gothic Cathedrals
Atahualpa
1517
Railroads
21. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
George Washington
Aswan High Dam
1956
Colonization
22. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Malay
Deism
1066 CE
1919
23. 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
Middle Passage
Submarine telegraph cables
Zoroastrianism
Diocletian
24. 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.
Cultural imperialism
Stalingrad
Bengal
1931
25. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Janissaries
1962
1618
Movable type
26. Date: Stock Market Crash
Daoism
1929
George Washington
Yongle
27. 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.
Mass deportation
Jenne-jeno
Ziggurat
Ramesses II
28. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Getulio Vargas
ideograms
Suleiman the Magnificent
Cultural imperialism
29. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
urbanization
Deng Xiaoping
Gulag
Republic
30. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
League of Nations
Samsara
Bartholomew Dias
United Nations
31. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.
Great Zimbabwe
Weimar Republic
Manor
European Community
32. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Octavian
Mansa Musa
Mita
Junk
33. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
Economic sanctions
Israel
Hieroglyphics
1258 CE
34. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson
Neocolonialism
Mao Zedong
Isfahan
35. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
Christopher Columbus
Qing Empire
Armenia
32 CE
36. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.
Sumer
Tiananmen Square
Empress Dowager Cixi
Protestant Reformation
37. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs
Trireme
Capitalism
Rigveda
Zhou Dynasty
38. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo
Bartolome de Las Casas
Akbar
Ethiopia
Labor union
39. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.
Nubians
Inca
1453 CE
1885
40. 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.
Salvador Allende
323 BCE
Faisal
Medieval
41. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Golden Horde
2001
Nehru
Delian League
42. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
Salvador Allende
Chiefdom
Acropolis
1967
43. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Juan Peron
Jenne-jeno
Mita
Hernan Cortes
44. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top
Centuries
Mao Zedong
ziggurat
3000s BCE
45. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Cixi
Tito
Mulatto
George Washington
46. The founder of Buddhism
Mein Kampf
Siddhartha Gautama
All-India Muslim League
1929
47. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Yuan Empire
Nation-State
Siddhartha Gautama
African National Congress
48. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.
Getulio Vargas
Humanism
Stone Age
Monotheism
49. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.
Sahel
632 CE
Hadith
Iroquois Confederacy
50. German leader of the Nazi Party
1885
Enlightenment
Terrorism
Adolf Hitler