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AP World History
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1. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
Holocaust
Acropolis
Siberia
OPEC
2. 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.
Indulgence
Artha-sastra
Balance of power
1910
3. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Christopher Columbus
Timur
Western Front
Mikhail Gorbachev
4. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Theodosius
Beijing
Czar
Indentured servitude
5. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
Diaspora
Tribute system
Black Death
Aborigine
6. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Bartolome de Las Casas
Acropolis
Safavid Persia
Olmec
7. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Josiah Wedgwood
1987
Minoan
Catholic Reformation
8. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Korean War
Constantine
Balance of power
1898
9. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
Darius I
Emilano Zapata
Mita
Martin Luther
10. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Marco Polo
6th century BCE
Druids
1521
11. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
King Charles I
Hieroglyphics
Mandate of Heaven
Jainism
12. An adherent of the Islamic religion.
Hieroglyphics
Muslim
Babylon
Great Zimbabwe
13. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name
Zoroaster
Hoplite
Cyrus II
Catholic Reformation
14. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
Shang
Delhi Sulatanate
Collectivization
Abbasid Caliphate
15. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
Indian National Congress
Bantu
Oracle Bones
Pericles
16. 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.
Qing Empire
Four Noble Truths
1857
Roman Senate
17. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
Bourgeoisie
Aqueduct
Cultural Revolution
Solidarity
18. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Gulag
Mestizo
Richard Arkwright
Deism
19. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Huns
Bourgeoisie
Talmud
Kamikaze
20. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Iconoclast
Railroads
Malay
Franklin D. Roosevelt
21. 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.
Lama
Alexander the Great
Telegraph
Taiping Rebellion
22. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Hieroglyphics
Vedas
Jenne-jeno
Han
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.
Nomad
Hittites
African National Congress
Marie Curie
24. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S
Hiroshima
Capitalism
Khipu
Samsara
25. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Emperor Menelik
Great Zimbabwe
Witchcraft
Constantine
26. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.
Jamestown
Herodotus
Scientific Revolution
loess
27. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.
Manchuria
Tao-te Ching
Colonization
Korean War
28. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Vishnu
Yongle
Reconquista
1300 BCE
29. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)
Shah Abbas I
Pancho Villa
Maya
Janapadas
30. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.
cuneiform
1683
Punic Wars
Olmec
31. 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.
Colombian Exchange
Indentured servitude
Khmer Empire
Constitutional Convention
32. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Caliphate
2001
Taiping Rebellion
Safavid Persia
33. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Medina
Middle Passage
Mughal Empire
Safavid Persia
34. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
Porfirio Díaz
Ibn Battuta
Hellenistic Age
Israel
35. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Apostle Paul
Dutch West India Company
Bourgeoisie
Zionism
36. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.
Colonialism
Yurt
Agricultural Revolution
Gupta Empire
37. Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws - inscribed on a black stone pillar - illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
Enlightenment
Hammurabi
Fourteen Points
Panama Canal
38. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Caravel
Teotihuacan
Buddha
Dutch West India Company
39. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Vishnu
Modernization
Zhou dynasty
Qin
40. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.
1066 CE
Nazism
Iron curtain
Janapadas
41. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe
liberalism
Three-field system
1810s
Chiang Kai-Shek
42. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Joesph Stalin
Mahabharata
Tribute system
Assimilation
43. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.
Extraterritoriality
Hebrew Bible
Gentry
Triumvirate
44. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Daoism
Taiping Rebellion
1600
Muhammad
45. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.
Sumerians
Iroquois Confederacy
Serf
1588
46. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
Olmec
Mecca
Witchcraft
Siddhartha Gautama
47. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Olmec
Leonardo da Vinci
Khomeini
Parthians
48. 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.
Julius Caesar
Confucius
1954
Paleolithic
49. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Safavid Empire
Berlin Blockade
Nation-State
Saddam Hussein
50. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Scramble for Africa
Zoroastrianism
Medieval
Sikhs