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AP World History
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1. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Extraterritoriality
1071 CE
Constitutionalism
Emilano Zapata
2. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Caste system
32 CE
Teotihuacan
3. 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
1941
National Assembly
Theodosius
1959
4. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Apostle Paul
Atahualpa
Teotihuacan
Caesar Augustus
5. 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.
Henry the Navigator
Rigveda
Shang
Hinduism
6. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Enconmienda
St. Augustine
liberalism
Teotihuacan
7. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Durbar
Balance of Power
476 CE
Gunpowder
8. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.
Helsinki Accords
Thebes
Karma
1804
9. 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
1325 CE
Buddhism
Tanzimat
1987
10. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
Auschwitz
Diffusion
Code of Hammurabi
Scientific Revolution
11. 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.
Guild
Zheng He
Moksha
Vedas
12. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th
1905
Sub-Saharan Africa
Muscovy
Mein Kampf
13. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Economic sanctions
Qin
Ming
14. 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.
1991
Cixi
Khubilai Khan
Quran
15. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.
Roman Senate
St. Augustine
Shogun
Zionism
16. 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
Buddha
Auschwitz
Trireme
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
17. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
Devshirme
476 CE
Memphis
Mandate of Heaven
18. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
333 CE
Shah Abbas I
Kievan Russia
Beijing
19. 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.
1898
Five Year Plans
Balance of Power
Ziggurat
20. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Creole
Berlin Blockade
Napoleonic Wars
Hiroshima
21. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
Tang Empire
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Steam engine
Syncretism
22. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Parthians
Rigveda
Pilgrims
Hammurabi
23. 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.
Octavian
Hittites
Warsaw Pact
Laissez faire
24. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
Christopher Columbus
Three-field system
1949
1935
25. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Liu Bang
Republic
George Washington
Gothic Cathedrals
26. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Industrial Revolution
Silk Road
Laissez Faire
Horse collar
27. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people
Vladimir Lenin
Theravada Buddhism
Guomindang
Victorian Age
28. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
The Mahdi
Peloponnesian War
1600
Humanists
29. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
NATO
Suleiman the Magnificent
Cottage industry
Song Dynasty
30. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.
Tang Empire
Dharma
Vladimir Lenin
Stoicism
31. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Sunnis
Mecca
Neocolonialism
Gujarat
32. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ziggurat
Serbia
OPEC
33. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).
Confucius
Imperialism
Israel
Telegraph
34. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.
Triumvirate
Young Turks
Berlin Conference
Cottage industry
35. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)
Creoles
Royal African Company
Ibn Battuta
Republic
36. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Triumvirate
Hammurabi
All-India Muslim League
Polis
37. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Ibn Khaldun
Three-field system
Talmud
Napoleon Bonaparte
38. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Neo-Assyrians
Khipu
Imperialism
Terrorism
39. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Gunpowder
Maori
Nomad
Jose Morelos
40. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Sanskrit
Josiah Wedgwood
Paterfamilias
Ghana
41. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
The Mahdi
Mandate of Heaven
Julius Caesar
Sepoy Mutiny
42. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Mestizo
1885
Druids
43. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).
Mycenae
Karl Marx
Akbar
Zoroastrianism
44. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
1899
Zoroastrianism
Theravada Buddhism
Shogun
45. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept
Sumerians
Epic of Gilgamesh
Mentuhotep I
Hinduism
46. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Puranas
James Watt
Young Turks
Fourteen Points
47. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi
Benjamin Franklin
Mentuhotep I
Industrial Revolution
Samurai
48. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity
Collectivization
Ming
Fertile Crescent
Mansa Musa
49. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Francisco Franco
Mycenae
Reconquista
King Charles I
50. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Albert Einstein
Terrorism
Shah Abbas I
Hydrogen bomb