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AP World History
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1. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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2. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.
Bartolomeu Dias
Paterfamilias
Aryans
All-India Muslim League
3. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
1994
Adolf Hitler
Hadith
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
4. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.
Legalism
Dar al-Islam
Muslim
Epic of Gilgamesh
5. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Diaspora
Polis
Third World
Meiji Restoration
6. 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
cuneiform
476 CE
Civilian Conservation Corps
7. 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.
Ulama
legalism
Socrates
Mahabharata
8. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Nehru
Bartolome de Las Casas
Mass production
Macartney Mission
9. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.
Forbidden City
Guilds
1911
Thebes
10. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
1914-1918
Cold War
Muslim
Neocolonialism
11. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Aryans
Nikita Khrushchev
Herodotus
legalism
12. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena
Napoleon
Cecil Rhodes
Indulgence
Muhammad Ali
13. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Mercantilism
Benjamin Franklin
Ming
Vladimir Lenin
14. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Hoplite
Hittites
Devshirme
15. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
1994
Hundred Years War
Gothic Cathedrals
Leonardo da Vinci
16. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Hellenistic
Xia
1871
Laissez Faire
17. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
European Community
Stoicism
Yellow Turban
Sepoy
18. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Ulama
Abbasid Caliphate
1325 CE
Eva Peron
19. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Consul
Berlin Conference
Indian Civil Service
Nuremberg Trials
20. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain
Treaty of Nanking
Agricultural Revolution
Napoleonic Wars
Francisco Franco
21. The most important work of Indian sacred literature - a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.
Stalingrad
Fascism
Bhagavad-Gita
Great Zimbabwe
22. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Witch-hunt
Indian National Congress
10000 BCE
Ziggurat
23. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
1271-1295 CE
Maya
Great Circuit
Pearl Harbor
24. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
Aztecs
Zionism
1683
1910
25. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
Middle Passage
1935
Afrikaners
Constantinople
26. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
Zhou dynasty
Aswan High Dam
1911
Kepler
27. 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.).
Theodosius
Confucius
1347 CE
1502
28. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
1607
Mahabharata
NATO
Champa Rice
29. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
Cixi
Meiji Restoration
Revolutions of 1848
Scholasticism
30. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state
Khubilai Khan
Ramesses II
220 CE
Aristotle
31. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
1929
Persia
Gens de couleur
Maya
32. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Abbasid Dynasty
Druids
Bourgeoisie
Shogun
33. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
323 BCE
Satrapy
Asante
Tokugawa Shogunate
34. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
Hittites
League of Nations
Copernicus
Babylon
35. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Hinduism
632 CE
Muhammad
Triumvirate
36. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
Driver
Aswan High Dam
Fascism
Khomeini
37. 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.
Absolutism
Meiji Restoration
Mantra
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
38. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Humanism
Moksha
1931
Janissaries
39. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics
Sahel
Separate Spheres
1533
Malay
40. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Mohandas Gandhi
Republic
Fresco
Jesuits
41. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.
Enlightenment
Black Death
Uigurs
House of Burgesses
42. 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.
Janapadas
Solon
Yurt
Sahel
43. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Peloponnesian War
Three-field system
1941
Xia
44. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Zhou dynasty
Maori
Hadith
Mughal Empire
45. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga
Abbasid Dynasty
Napoleonic Wars
Revolutions of 1848
Suez Canal
46. 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.
Philip II
Alexandria
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Perestroika
47. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Meiji Restoration
1863
Proxy wars
Macartney Mission
48. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Balance of Power
Ferdinand Magellan
Albert Einstein
Sun Yat-Sen
49. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)
Israel
Diffusion
1588
Mahayana Buddhism
50. 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
Black Death
National Assembly
1949
Zoroaster