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AP World History
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1. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
1959
Italian Renaissance
Diaspora
Cortes
2. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.
1911
Dirty War
Muhammad
Socrates
3. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t
Caesar Augustus
loess
Safavid Persia
Opium Wars
4. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top
Shogun
ziggurat
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Benito Mussolini
5. 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.
Alexandria
Mesopotamia
Royal African Company
Janissaries
6. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Pericles
Bourgeoisie
Vladimir Lenin
Hellenistic Age
7. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Investiture
Vladimir Lenin
Harappa
Mohandas Gandhi
8. 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
Tao-te Ching
Cortes
Berlin Blockade
9. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Enconmienda
Paleolithic
Cultural Revolution
Congress of Vienna
10. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Royal African Company
Monasticism
legalism
Perestroika
11. 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.
Umma
Sun Yat-sen
Gothic Cathedrals
Puranas
12. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Pancho Villa
1939
Habsburgs
Monotheism
13. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Augustus
Ottomans
Safavid Persia
Aborigine
14. 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.
Zen
Paterfamilias
Indentured servitude
Creoles
15. Political units in India in the years 700-600 BC. They are the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India. They are the earliest kingdoms set up by the Indo-Aryans migrants to India.
Mecca
Nuremberg Trials
Ziggurat
Janapadas
16. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia
Alexander the Great
Mahabharata
Paleolithic
Scientific Revolution
17. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Josiah Wedgwood
Fresco
National Assembly
Great Zimbabwe
18. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
1258 CE
Sepoy Mutiny
Constantine
Mein Kampf
19. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
1947
Bourgeoisie
Janapadas
Empress Wu
20. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Zulu
World Bank
1325 CE
Tennis Court Oath
21. The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region.
Acropolis
Mycenae
1885
Chavin
22. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.
Divine Right of Kings
Victorian Age
1967
Mohandas Gandhi
23. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Mass production
Middle Passage
Roman Republic
Laissez Faire
24. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
George Washington
Timur
Juan Peron
1095 CE
25. 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.
Cotton
Jenne-jeno
Khubilai Khan
pictograms
26. 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
Rigveda
Philosophes
Steel
27. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.
Battle of Midway
Cultural Revolution
Ferdinand Magellan
Habsburgs
28. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.
Papacy
Gens de couleur
Nazism
Ethiopia
29. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu
Vasco da Gama
Yurt
Hoplite
Cold War
30. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Manor
Mestizo
assimilation
Vladimir Lenin
31. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Hittites
Cecil Rhodes
Bartholomew Dias
Afrikaners
32. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Deng Xiaoping
Cuban Missile Crisis
Junk
Hellenistic
33. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.
Mahabharata
Collectivization
Ma'at
Mali
34. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
Humanism
Panama Canal
1756
Maximillien Robespierre
35. 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
Zaibatsu
liberalism
Suez Canal
ideograms
36. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Deng Xiaoping
Empiricism
Confucius
1521
37. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Economic sanctions
Cold War
1950
Hellenistic
38. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Holocaust
Franz Ferdinand
Leonardo da Vinci
Francisco Franco
39. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
Adolf Hitler
Nehru
333 CE
Mandate System
40. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
Jose Morelos
Berlin Blockade
hadith
Legalism
41. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog
Sufi
Mughal Empire
Jainism
Daoism
42. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
1898
Akbar
Tennis Court Oath
Memphis
43. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
Meiji Restoration
Charles de Gaulle
Neo-Assyrians
Ibn Khaldun
44. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Nuremberg Trials
Samsara
Alexander the Great
Ferdinand Magellan
45. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
Indian Civil Service
Porfirio Díaz
Henry the Navigator
1689
46. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety - fulfill vows - or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions - such as the Muslim journey to Mecca.
Steam engine
Balance of power
Pilgrimage
Rajputs
47. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Ibn Battuta
Quran
Diaspora
1959
48. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
Trireme
Submarine telegraph cables
Manchuria
Sumerians
49. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Shi'a
Third World
Crusades
Beijing
50. 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).
Diocletian
Scientific Revolution
Laissez faire
Aqueduct