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AP World History
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1. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
Carthage
Darius I
Indulgence
1863
2. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Serf
Faisal
Prince Henry The Navigator
Balance of power
3. 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.
Yellow Turban
Saddam Hussein
Janissaries
333 CE
4. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Akhenaten
Chiang Kai-Shek
Zimmerman telegram
5. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
1571
Guilds
1600
Dar al-Islam
6. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Mohandas Gandhi
Congress of Vienna
Creole
Mahabharata
7. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
Black Death
5th century BCE
Liu Bang
Delhi Sulatanate
8. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
Carthage
Guilds
Young Turks
Vasco da Gama
9. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches
Hittites
Imperialism
Constantinople
Protestant Reformation
10. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)
Great Western Schism
Druids
Aryans
Epic of Gilgamesh
11. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Indian National Congress
1979
1258 CE
Concordat
12. 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.
Thomas Edison
Five Year Plans
Crusades
Constitutionalism
13. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Glorious Revolution
Bourgeoisie
Thebes
Janissaries
14. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
King Charles I
1871
Columbian Exchange
1914-1918
15. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Rigveda
Shi'a
Han
Thebes
16. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)
Thebes
Tiananmen Square
Constitutional Convention
Proxy wars
17. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.
Philosophes
Druids
Joint-stock company
African National Congress
18. 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.
Parthians
Puranas
Janapadas
Industrial Revolution
19. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
Sudetenland
Humanism
liberalism
Gold Coast
20. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
1987
Talmud
Francisco Franco
Babylonian Empire
21. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
Olmec
Rama
Kamikaze
Syncretism
22. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Empress Wu
6th century BCE
St. Augustine
Ulama
23. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
Tribute system
Hellenistic Age
Gulag
Wheel of Life
24. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Movable type
Bourgeoisie
Puranas
Vedas
25. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Manchus
Delhi
Tanakh
Atahualpa
26. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Socialists
Romanization
legalism
Pericles
27. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Perestroika
Emperor Menelik
Berlin Blockade
Zhou Dynasty
28. 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.
Monotheism
ethnic cleansing
Pericles
Thomas Edison
29. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Indentured servitude
Macartney Mission
Joesph Stalin
Pancho Villa
30. 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
1898
Encomienda
Tamil Kingdoms
31. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Sumer
1054 CE
Otto von Bismarck
Papacy
32. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Great Circuit
Hoplite
ethnic cleansing
George Washington
33. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Comfort girls
Khmer Empire
Mali
Umma
34. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Ziggurat
Jenne-Jeno
1095 CE
Dutch West India Company
35. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
Treaty of Nanking
Siberia
United Nations
vassal
36. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Cambyses II
Kievan Russia
Muhammad
Mandate of Heaven
37. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
1258 CE
Kepler
Zhou dynasty
Yin and yang
38. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights
Asian Tigers
1947
Estates General
Iron curtain
39. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
hadith
Simon Bolivar
1054 CE
Charlemagne
40. 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
Stone Age
Humanism
Francisco Franco
Bourgeoisie
41. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Mercantilism
1502
Lama
Paleolithic
42. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Sunnis
Mass production
Samurai
Diaspora
43. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Zimmerman telegram
Albert Einstein
Silk Road
1899
44. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Hundred Years War
Asoka
Agora
Lusitania
45. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Tiananmen Square
Fransisco Pizarro
Roman Republic
Caravel
46. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)
Royal African Company
Mycenae
Sahel
Asoka
47. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
1618
Asian Tigers
Atahualpa
Teotihuacan
48. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
Collectivization
Delhi Sulatanate
Proxy war
Postmodernism
49. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Armenia
Paleolithic
Monophysites
Proxy war
50. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Humanism
Indian Civil Service
Caravel
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