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AP World History
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1. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Abolition
cuneiform
Zaibatsu
Tito
2. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Theodosius
Creole
Khmer Empire
1911
3. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.
Nasir al-Din Tusi
221 BCE
Emilio Aguinaldo
Shang
4. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Benito Mussolini
Mongols
Separate Spheres
5. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.
Mohenjo-Daro
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Buddhism
6. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
Horse collar
Neo-Assyrians
Indian Civil Service
Socialists
7. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.
Mycenae
Saddam Hussein
Reconquista
Rajputs
8. 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
Bartolomeu Dias
Persia
Vishnu
9. 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.
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Mechanization
Nonaligned
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
10. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Leonardo da Vinci
Lusitania
Siddhartha Gautama
Copernicus
11. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Neo-Assyrians
Maya
Swahili
Abbasid Dynasty
12. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Khomeini
Democracy
1324 CE
Albert Einstein
13. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
1935
Karl Marx
1789
Pilgrims
14. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century
Railroads
Kievan Russia
Solon
1488
15. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Vasco da Gama
Benjamin Franklin
Christopher Columbus
Asante
16. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Song Dynasty
Karma
Hittites
1967
17. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Sasanid Empire
Jenne-jeno
Constantine
Sub-Saharan Africa
18. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Stoicism
Inca
Samurai
Diffusion
19. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
OPEC
Mita
John F. Kennedy
Byzantine Empire
20. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Mecca
Hittites
Mestizo
Black Death
21. Date: Korean War starts
Zoroaster
1950
Shamanism
1095 CE
22. 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.
Grand Canal
Hellenistic Age
5th century BCE
1950
23. 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.
Nonaligned
Roman Senate
Darius I
1533
24. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Satrapy
Warring States Period
Guomindang
Bartholomew Dias
25. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
180 CE
Monotheism
Code of Hammurabi
1571
26. 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.
Yurt
Muslim
Tribune
Janissaries
27. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.
cuneiform
Punic Wars
Divination
1533
28. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
New Economic Policy
Buddha
vassal
Mercantilism
29. Date: French Revolution begins
1789
Sub-Saharan Africa
Jenne-Jeno
1571
30. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
Zapata
Mycenae
Vedas
Medina
31. 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
Mechanization
Sandinista
NATO
Cotton
32. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.
cuneiform
Hellenistic
Submarine telegraph cables
Henry the Navigator
33. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Hittites
Mycenae
476 CE
1571
34. 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
Cecil Rhodes
Ming
Woodrow Wilson
Italian Renaissance
35. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Adolf Hitler
Shogun
Gulag
WTO
36. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
Ptolemy
United Nations
1863
Mercantilism
37. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.
Stalingrad
Socrates
Solon
Hacienda
38. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
French Revolution
732 CE
Hoplite
Long March
39. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.
Bartolome de Las Casas
Hatshepsut
Napoleonic Wars
Teotihuacan
40. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Henry the Navigator
African National Congress
Mycenae
1917
41. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Iroquois Confederacy
John Locke
Song Dynasty
Mein Kampf
42. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.
Jenne-Jeno
French Revolution
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Ming
43. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Jacobins
Buddha
Darius I
Mughal Empire
44. 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.
Mechanization
Ghana
Hinduism
Tribute system
45. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Safavid Empire
Civilian Conservation Corps
4th century CE
Oracle Bones
46. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Medieval
Cossaks
Helsinki Accords
Maximillien Robespierre
47. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.
Delhi Sultanate
legalism
Gunpowder
1885
48. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Guomindang
Montezuma II
Jamestown
Darius I
49. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
Guild
Syncretism
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Sasanid Empire
50. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Medieval
Leonardo da Vinci
Caliphate
Goths