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AP World History
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1. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Sikhs
Jenne-Jeno
Crusades
Hammurabi
2. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs
Zhou Dynasty
Samsara
Empress Wu
Carthage
3. 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.
Afrikaners
Druids
Nazism
Bolshevik
4. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
1453 CE
1815
Franz Ferdinand
Mycenae
5. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno
Submarine telegraph cables
Napoleon
Habsburg
Cottage industry
6. 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.
Khubilai Khan
Charles de Gaulle
Bantu
Zimmerman telegram
7. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Sumer
Porfirio Díaz
Ferdinand Magellan
1947
8. 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.
Neolithic
Janissaries
Steppes
1347 CE
9. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Constantine
Khomeini
Akbar
Telegraph
10. Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.
Hundred Years War
Sahel
1857
Agora
11. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.
Monsoon
Sun Yat-Sen
Wheel of Life
Plato
12. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
Constantinople
Alexandria
Driver
deforestation
13. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
Bantu
Mercantilism
Carthage
Long March
14. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Bourgeoisie
1931
Buddha
1905
15. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Israel
Indian Ocean
Winston Churchill
Babylonian Empire
16. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
1848
323 BCE
Scientific Revolution
1935
17. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Armenia
Teotihuacan
Neolithic
Marco Polo
18. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Montezuma II
Theodosius
Abbasid Caliphate
19. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Triumvirate
Driver
Postmodernism
Muscovy
20. 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.
Zoroaster
Goths
Bhagavad-Gita
Charles Darwin
21. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.
Yuan Empire
Thebes
476 CE
Tributary system
22. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.
1325 CE
Guilds
Bolshevik
Alexandria
23. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Terrorism
Scientific Revolution
Estates General
Manchuria
24. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Rajputs
Guild
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sepoy
25. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)
Constantinople
Atlantic System
Jose Morelos
Tenochtitlan
26. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)
Minoan
Grand Canal
Conquistadors
Hieroglyphics
27. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Manumission
Monophysites
Jose Morelos
Industrial Revolution
28. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
Vedas
Gunpowder
Napoleonic Wars
Treaty of Versailles
29. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena
Napoleon
Uigurs
Rigveda
WTO
30. 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
Aborigine
Enclosure Movement
National Assembly
1815
31. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Jacobins
Shang
Extraterritoriality
ziggurat
32. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Persia
Satrapy
Gunpowder
Safavid Empire
33. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
Stoicism
Humanists
Socrates
1066 CE
34. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Hanseatic League
Caravel
Aborigine
Josiah Wedgwood
35. 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
Nongovernmental Organizations
Sumerians
Suez Canal
1433 CE
36. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.
Sikhs
Dar al-Islam
6th century BCE
1815
37. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Jesuits
1857
Philosophes
Gujarat
38. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Champa Rice
Simon Bolivar
Abbasid Caliphate
Alexandria
39. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Comfort girls
Charles Darwin
Ming
Leonardo da Vinci
40. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens
Mahayana Buddhism
1945
Persian Wars
Winston Churchill
41. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear
Railroads
Armenia
Nazism
Congress of Vienna
42. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Laissez Faire
Emperor Menelik
1492
Winston Churchill
43. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Tao-te Ching
Cold War
Shogun
Fransisco Pizarro
44. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.
Jainism
Julius Caesar
Goths
Chinampas
45. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
Zhou dynasty
1871
Salvador Allende
Hiroshima
46. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.
Mahabharata
European Community
Nazism
French Revolution
47. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Nonaligned
Pax Romana
Hebrew Bible
Jizya
48. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.
Zen
Rama
Ottomans
Berlin Conference
49. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.
Industrial Revolution
1959
Keiretsu
Charles Darwin
50. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Henry the Navigator
Diaspora
Alexander the Great