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AP World History
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1. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.
Hebrew Bible
Caliphate
Scientific Revolution
Ulama
2. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Jenne-Jeno
Mita
Bhagavad-Gita
Hittites
3. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Benito Mussolini
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Fransisco Pizarro
Rigveda
4. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.
Hittites
Little Ice Age
1899
Mass production
5. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Umma
1949
Julius Caesar
Fourteen Points
6. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
1776
Rajputs
Absolutism
Diaspora
7. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Carthage
Steppes
Benito Mussolini
Marco Polo
8. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Francisco Franco
Qin
Code of Hammurabi
Janissary
9. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Ottomans
Cambyses II
Memphis
Driver
10. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.
Gens de couleur
Laissez Faire
Emilio Aguinaldo
Mita
11. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Delian League
Zhou
Solon
12. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Asante
Zoroastrianism
Code of Hammurabi
Thebes
13. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Young Turks
Comfort girls
Delhi Sulatanate
1950
14. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Max Planck
African National Congress
Plato
Nation-State
15. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Guomindang
Iconoclast
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Pericles
16. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
1935
1571
Treaty of Versailles
National Assembly
17. 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
Zionism
323 BCE
Opium Wars
Tribune
18. 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.
Francisco Franco
Cossaks
Korean War
Tiananmen Square
19. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
Economic sanctions
Pancho Villa
1871
Pericles
20. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.
Zen
Henry the Navigator
Albert Einstein
Mandate of Heaven
21. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Young Turks
Uigurs
1600
Indulgence
22. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
333 CE
Carthage
Nikita Khrushchev
Helsinki Accords
23. Date: French Revolution begins
1789
221 BCE
Declaration of the Rights of Man
1954
24. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
assimilation
Golden Horde
Bengal
Carthage
25. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state
Dar al-Islam
Victorian Age
Buddha
Aristotle
26. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.
Mercantilism
Divine Right of Kings
Pearl Harbor
Sokoto Caliphate
27. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Safavid Persia
Aryans
Imperialism
Humanists
28. 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.
Timur
Jenne-jeno
Mahabharata
Akhenaten
29. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.
1488
Yurt
Zionism
Huns
30. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
James Watt
1683
Peloponnesian War
Apostle Paul
31. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.
Sepoy
Aqueduct
Gunpowder
Bartholomew Dias
32. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.
1910
Gunpowder
Hieroglyphics
Timur
33. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.
Siberia
Dalai Lama
Nazism
Saddam Hussein
34. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
Ibn Khaldun
Romanization
Balance of Power
Suez Canal
35. 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.
Cambyses II
Encomienda
Monotheism
Kievan Russia
36. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Chiang Kai-Shek
Golden Horde
732 CE
Deism
37. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
Sanskrit
Jacobins
1910
Serbia
38. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
476 CE
Khmer Empire
Delhi Sulatanate
Mycenae
39. 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
Aswan High Dam
1258 CE
ziggurat
Gentry
40. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
1863
cuneiform
Talmud
Memphis
41. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Gujarat
Teotihuacan
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Charles Darwin
42. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.
Industrial Revolution
Gens de couleur
Kamikaze
Tamil Kingdoms
43. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
Totalitarianism
Black Death
pictograms
Humanists
44. 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.
Roman Principate
Polis
Industrial Revolution
Satrapy
45. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Colonialism
Silk Road
Safavid Persia
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
46. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
Mongols
1987
Jacobins
1917
47. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Fertile Crescent
1931
Beijing
Quran
48. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
Mycenae
Bread and Circuses
Tributary system
1911
49. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Indulgence
Albert Einstein
OPEC
Holocaust
50. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Serf
African National Congress
Umma
Republic