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AP World History
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1. 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.
Treaty of Nanking
Printing press
Keiretsu
Khomeini
2. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.
1689
Separate Spheres
Qin
Herodotus
3. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Bengal
Tang Empire
Israel
Sun Yat-Sen
4. 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
Shang
Scientific Revolution
Asante
5. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.
Champa Rice
Uigurs
Aztecs
Karl Marx
6. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
1683
Bolsheviks
Asante
Submarine telegraph cables
7. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Telegraph
Horse collar
Czar
Indulgences
8. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Safavid Persia
Enlightenment
Empress Dowager Cixi
Rigveda
9. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Teotihuacan
Grand Canal
Vladimir Lenin
1453 CE
10. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Junk
Laissez faire
Umma
1987
11. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Deng Xiaoping
Kievan Russia
1910
Zaibatsu
12. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Samurai
1911
Shinto
Dirty War
13. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Octavian
Khmer Empire
Jesuits
Driver
14. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Taiping Rebellion
Akbar
Umayyad Caliphate
Great Zimbabwe
15. 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
Bolshevik
Khomeini
Repartimiento
16. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.
1945
Solon
Telegraph
Agricultural Revolution
17. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
Teotihuacan
Liu Bang
Tennis Court Oath
Declaration of the Rights of Man
18. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
Lama
Tribune
Jesus
Neo-Assyrian Empire
19. Spanish estates that were often plantations
Treaty of Versailles
Samurai
Bolsheviks
Hacienda
20. Date: end of WWII
Pax Romana
ziggurat
Monasticism
1945
21. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
Mantra
Capitalism
Gothic Cathedrals
Colonialism
22. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
1689
ethnic cleansing
Creole
Thebes
23. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Khubilai Khan
United Nations
Siddhartha Gautama
Manumission
24. 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.
Teotihuacan
Manor
Nubians
Druids
25. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
Tokugawa Shogunate
1521
Harappa
Capitalism
26. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Socrates
Hoplite
Maya
Cossaks
27. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Romanization
Nuclear nonproliferation
1950
John F. Kennedy
28. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
Tokugawa Shogunate
1917
James Watt
Aswan High Dam
29. 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.
Tributary system
Bourgeoisie
Solon
Enconmienda
30. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Treaty of Versailles
221 BCE
Kepler
Yellow River
31. 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.
Weimar Republic
Guild
Divination
Papyrus
32. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
Mandate of Heaven
1756
Adolf Hitler
1066 CE
33. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Inca
Nazism
Terrorism
Steel
34. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Nehru
Nubians
1899
Tribune
35. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian
1919
Plebeians
Peloponnesian War
1956
36. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Ulama
Jamestown
Rajputs
Joint-stock company
37. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Alexandria
Code of Hammurabi
United Nations
1848
38. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
Rigveda
Abbasid Dynasty
1325 CE
1789
39. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo
Sandinistas
Constitutionalism
Mechanization
Bartolome de Las Casas
40. 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.
Steel
Khmer Empire
Extraterritoriality
Enlightenment
41. 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
Sumerians
Champa Rice
732 CE
42. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)
Joseph Stalin
Tanzimat
4th century CE
1453 CE
43. 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)
Semitic
Electricity
Mongols
Great Western Schism
44. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma
Celts
1979
Ibn Battuta
2001
45. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Civilian Conservation Corps
1071 CE
Stalingrad
Junk
46. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Divination
Encomienda
Colombian Exchange
Constantine
47. The process of reforming political - military - economic - social - and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies - often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies.
Modernization
Golden Horde
James Watt
Hittites
48. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
Talmud
Diocletian
Carthage
Gens de couleur
49. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Herodotus
NATO
John Locke
1071 CE
50. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
Tanzimat
Tribute system
Weimar Republic
1954