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AP World History
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1. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
Philosophes
Thomas Edison
Samurai
1948
2. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
323 BCE
Iroquois Confederacy
Gunpowder
Thomas Malthus
3. Date: French Revolution begins
1789
Liu Bang
The Golden Triangle
Serf
4. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha
Kamikaze
Yellow Turban
Maya
Siddhartha Gautama
5. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
Tanzimat
Medieval
Long March
Varna
6. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o
Consul
Varna
Delhi Sulatanate
Hinduism
7. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
1929
Sikhs
Hinduism
Bengal
8. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
Zulu
Laissez faire
Agora
Marie Curie
9. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.
Puranas
Sasanid Empire
Mali
Tanzimat
10. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.
Nazism
Carthage
Mansa Musa
Mercantilism
11. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Great Zimbabwe
Ibn Battuta
Nuclear nonproliferation
Leonardo da Vinci
12. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Zen
1949
Deng Xiaoping
Balfour Declaration
13. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Janissaries
Malay
Sokoto Caliphate
Aswan High Dam
14. 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
Revolutions of 1848
1789
Constitutionalism
1517
15. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
pictograms
1300 BCE
deforestation
Divination
16. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
333 CE
Grand Canal
Tokugawa Shogunate
1899
17. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.
Steppes
Siddhartha Gautama
Italian Renaissance
Diaspora
18. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Czar
Song Dynasty
Indian Ocean
Thomas Edison
19. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri
Timur
Wheel of Life
Sepoy Mutiny
Code of Hammurabi
20. 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.
1949
Gothic Cathedrals
Mikhail Gorbachev
Helsinki Accords
21. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.
Berlin Conference
Modernization
Trireme
Chiefdom
22. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.
Iron curtain
Bourgeoisie
assimilation
1600
23. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Christopher Columbus
Five Year Plans
Monophysites
Mahabharata
24. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
Tribute system
Woodrow Wilson
Shang Dynasty
Comfort girls
25. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
League of Nations
Cossaks
Hiroshima
Harappa
26. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
Durbar
1987
Third World
Hellenistic Age
27. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.
Zen
Sepoy
1931
Philip II
28. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Tao-te Ching
Assimilation
Oracle Bones
Juan Peron
29. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Berlin Blockade
Philosophes
1071 CE
Safavid Persia
30. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav
1941
Ghana
Gens de couleur
Yongle
31. 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.
Rigveda
Marie Curie
Yellow Turban
Creoles
32. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
National Assembly
ideograms
1939
French Revolution
33. 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
Medieval
Artha-sastra
Sumerians
Young Turks
34. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
Triumvirate
Hittites
New Economic Policy
Horse collar
35. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Henry the Navigator
Shamanism
Socrates
Crusades
36. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
Emilano Zapata
Alexander the Great
Laissez Faire
1095 CE
37. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
Electricity
NATO
Opium Wars
Proxy war
38. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.
Parthians
Nazism
Columbian Exchange
Varna
39. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Hernan Cortes
Silk Road
Celts
Otto von Bismarck
40. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.
Helsinki Accords
Treaty of Versailles
Mercantilism
Solomon's Temple
41. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
Karl Marx
Monophysites
1618
Tanzimat
42. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.
Constantine
Copernicus
Tanzimat
Enlightenment
43. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
City state
Fascism
Socialists
Jacobins
44. A French Protestant
Leonardo da Vinci
Columbian Exchange
Huguenot
Ulama
45. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
French Revolution
Mestizo
Humanism
Manchus
46. 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.
ethnic cleansing
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuclear nonproliferation
Balfour Declaration
47. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
Suez Canal
Steam engine
Monophysites
Jose Morelos
48. 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.
Comfort girls
Umma
1607
Bantu
49. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Thomas Malthus
Iconoclast
League of Nations
Bread and Circuses
50. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Shinto
Hernan Cortes
Samurai
Byzantine Empire