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AP World History
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1. 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.
Liu Bang
Hammurabi
1857
2001
2. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Zoroaster
Jesuits
Durbar
Marco Polo
3. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Agora
Fidel Castro
Constantine
OPEC
4. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.
1571
hadith
Tribune
Tiananmen Square
5. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century
Roman Senate
Railroads
Patricians
Shinto
6. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Cyrus
Oracle Bones
Inca
1756
7. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Sasanid Empire
1994
Paterfamilias
Four Noble Truths
8. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
pictograms
Capitalism
Totalitarianism
The Mahdi
9. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
Humanism
Shi'a
Bolsheviks
Caesar Augustus
10. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.
Dharma
Adolf Hitler
Tribune
Christopher Columbus
11. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.
Divination
1914-1918
pictograms
Mongols
12. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Zhou
Mycenae
Capitalism
Shinto
13. 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.
Conquistadors
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Umma
Hydrogen bomb
14. 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.
John Locke
Silk Road
Stalingrad
Fresco
15. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Hatshepsut
Stoicism
Crusades
Alexander the Great
16. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Patricians
732 CE
Serf
Indian National Congress
17. 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.
Agricultural Revolution
Qin
Constitutional Convention
Guomindang
18. 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.
Fidel Castro
Gothic Cathedrals
Iconoclast
Diocletian
19. 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.
Shinto
Yellow Turban
Rajputs
Cossaks
20. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.
Zen
Panama Canal
Steam engine
Long March
21. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Mohenjo-Daro
Devshirme
Rigveda
Babylonian Empire
22. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
Vladimir Lenin
1453 CE
Socialists
Tributary system
23. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent
Divine Right of Kings
Indentured servitude
Memphis
Hittites
24. Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.
Sahel
Shang Dynasty
Little Ice Age
deforestation
25. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
1095 CE
4th century CE
Marie Curie
Gunpowder
26. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Maya
Hundred Years War
Hegemony
Nasir al-Din Tusi
27. 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
Investiture
32 CE
Christopher Columbus
28. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
5th century BCE
1054 CE
1433 CE
1804
29. 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
Bantu
Delhi
Saddam Hussein
30. 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.
Umma
Vedas
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Labor union
31. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Umma
Marie Curie
Trireme
Empiricism
32. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
Iron curtain
Cambyses II
Mass deportation
732 CE
33. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Moksha
Abbasid Dynasty
Divination
Deng Xiaoping
34. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.
Shang Dynasty
Vladimir Lenin
Zulu
Colombian Exchange
35. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Monotheism
New Economic Policy
Ulama
Apostle Paul
36. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Afrikaners
Macartney Mission
Vishnu
1071 CE
37. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu
Mali
Shang
Ulama
liberalism
38. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Sasanid Empire
Steam engine
Martin Luther
Papyrus
39. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Enconmienda
Gunpowder
Uigurs
Cyrus
40. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.
Macedonia
Ming
Asante
Bourgeoisie
41. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
1871
Zimmerman telegram
Sumerians
Little Ice Age
42. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
Mita
Solidarity
Alexander the Great
Sasanid Empire
43. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Constantinople
Encomienda
Kepler
James Watt
44. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.
Trireme
Absolutism
Jacobins
Polis
45. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Roman Senate
Akhenaten
Triumvirate
Abbasid Caliphate
46. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.
Diffusion
Ayatollah Khomeini
Solon
Monotheism
47. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
1898
Song Dynasty
Hiroshima
Papyrus
48. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.
Hellenistic
1095 CE
legalism
Roman Principate
49. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Extraterritoriality
Alexandria
Hanseatic League
50. Spanish estates that were often plantations
Hacienda
Monasticism
Telegraph
Ibn Khaldun