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AP World History
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1. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Pax Romana
Syncretism
Code of Hammurabi
Joint-stock company
2. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
Civilian Conservation Corps
Gunpowder
Helsinki Accords
Empress Dowager Cixi
3. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Kepler
Constantinople
Hegemony
Empress Dowager Cixi
4. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Great Zimbabwe
vassal
Peloponnesian War
5. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
Olmec
Divine Right of Kings
Golden Horde
Hydrogen bomb
6. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
333 CE
Leonid Brezhnev
Jesus
Great Western Schism
7. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
Babylonian Empire
Karma
United Nations
Roman Republic
8. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Warsaw Pact
Mita
Thomas Edison
Telegraph
9. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.
527 CE
Panama Canal
New Economic Policy
Indulgence
10. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Maya
Siberia
Dirty War
1931
11. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.
Ming
Hundred Years War
Emperor Menelik
Punic Wars
12. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Jizya
Israel
Zen
Capitalism
13. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
Vladimir Lenin
180 CE
Teotihuacan
Ming
14. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Lusitania
1533
Shinto
Caste system
15. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.
Jenne-Jeno
Plebeians
Atlantic System
Hernan Cortes
16. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Silk Road
Mita
Movable type
17. 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)
Artha-sastra
1517
Malay
Inca
18. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.
Humanists
Indian Civil Service
Babylon
Taiping Rebellion
19. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Satrapy
Cultural imperialism
Yellow River
Persia
20. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Berlin Blockade
Joint-stock company
Vladimir Lenin
Declaration of the Rights of Man
21. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Stock exchange
John Locke
assimilation
Constitutional Convention
22. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
Constitutionalism
1948
Enlightenment
Steppes
23. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Trireme
Asante
Ming
24. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Indian Ocean
Patricians
John Locke
1959
25. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.
Mentuhotep I
Great Zimbabwe
1905
Laissez faire
26. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Hatshepsut
Humanism
Meiji Restoration
Hieroglyphics
27. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Meiji Restoration
1899
Holocaust
Mulatto
28. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
Cotton
Consul
Proxy wars
Weimar Republic
29. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Holocaust
assimilation
Yellow River
30. Date: 9/11 Attacks
Bolshevik
2001
1885
Forbidden City
31. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Liu Bang
ziggurat
Neo-Assyrians
Empress Wu
32. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
Zen
Labor union
Colonization
Nongovernmental Organizations
33. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
Iron curtain
Capitalism
James Watt
Hatshepsut
34. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Caravel
Shamanism
Stoicism
Enlightenment
35. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Hadith
Theravada Buddhism
Trireme
Ulama
36. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.
Emilano Zapata
Indian National Congress
George Washington
Bourgeoisie
37. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Patricians
Gujarat
Franz Ferdinand
Mandate of Heaven
38. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)
Cecil Rhodes
Minoans
Chinampas
Herodotus
39. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon
Napoleonic Wars
Maya
Siberia
1910
40. 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.
All-India Muslim League
Mahabharata
Crusades
Centuries
41. 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.
Chavin
732 CE
Jacobins
Mikhail Gorbachev
42. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
Ma'at
League of Nations
Malay
1863
43. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Treaty of Versailles
Papyrus
Dar al-Islam
Hernan Cortes
44. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Winston Churchill
Olmec
Protestant Reformation
Fourteen Points
45. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Parthians
Constantine
Perestroika
Sokoto Caliphate
46. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Warring States Period
Mercantilism
3000s BCE
Hadith
47. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.
Socialists
Indentured servitude
Khubilai Khan
Sunnis
48. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
Rama
1683
Indentured servitude
Bengal
49. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Hernan Cortes
Collectivization
Confucianism
Repartimiento
50. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Three-field system
ethnic cleansing
Peloponnesian War
Mycenae