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AP World History
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1. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.
Repartimiento
Monophysites
Movable type
Vladimir Lenin
2. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Terrorism
Puranas
Rajputs
Abbasid Dynasty
3. German leader of the Nazi Party
Janissaries
1945
Atahualpa
Adolf Hitler
4. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Artha-sastra
Realpolitik
Tanakh
Cold War
5. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Capitalism
Karma
Caravel
Delian League
6. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia
1898
1948
Pax Mongolica
Jamestown
7. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.
Yurt
Collectivization
Zoroaster
Albert Einstein
8. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
Franz Ferdinand
Napoleon
1949
Hundred Years War
9. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.
Samsara
Serbia
Alexander the Great
Jainism
10. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Taiping Rebellion
Great Circuit
Pancho Villa
Enlightenment
11. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Pearl Harbor
1839
Thomas Malthus
Agricultural Revolution
12. Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws - inscribed on a black stone pillar - illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
Mass deportation
Jainism
Hammurabi
1756
13. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.
Totalitarianism
Yellow River
1839
Aryans
14. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
urbanization
Mandate System
1910
Theravada Buddhism
15. 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
Francisco Franco
New Economic Policy
Vedas
Socrates
16. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Stoicism
Gold Coast
Simon Bolivar
Teotihuacan
17. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.
Tributary system
NATO
Bolsheviks
Punic Wars
18. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Gulag
Balance of power
Roman Senate
Roman Principate
19. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
OPEC
Mestizo
Shogun
Atahualpa
20. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.
Khubilai Khan
Lusitania
cuneiform
Swahili
21. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.
1905
Mauryan Empire
Cultural imperialism
Diaspora
22. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Jose Morelos
Safavid Persia
Colombian Exchange
All-India Muslim League
23. 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.
Indian Ocean
Christopher Columbus
Gunpowder
Diaspora
24. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Investiture
Kepler
1502
Abolition
25. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)
Zhou Dynasty
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
1804
1453 CE
26. 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.
Alexander the Great
Sepoy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Teotihuacan
27. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i
Ibn Battuta
Great Western Schism
Treaty of Nanking
Mahabharata
28. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Tanakh
Dirty War
1962
Sepoy
29. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.
Caesar Augustus
Nazism
Bolsheviks
Centuries
30. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Divination
1898
Bartolomeu Dias
Yin and yang
31. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.
Hellenistic Age
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Grand Canal
Comfort girls
32. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
Joint-stock company
Little Ice Age
Persian Wars
Woodrow Wilson
33. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Five Year Plans
Mandate System
Indulgences
34. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Hatshepsut
1899
1991
Republic
35. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Albert Einstein
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Marie Curie
Divine Right of Kings
36. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Comfort girls
Mongols
1899
Saddam Hussein
37. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
1533
1095 CE
180 CE
Napoleonic Wars
38. 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.
Sasanid Empire
Mercantilism
Faisal
Tiananmen Square
39. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Neolithic
Zoroastrianism
Opium Wars
assimilation
40. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
1517
Trireme
Julius Caesar
Pax Romana
41. 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.
Nazca
Sandinista
Vladimir Lenin
Siddhartha Gautama
42. 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
Isfahan
Guomindang
Revolutions of 1848
Movable type
43. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
1905
Indian Ocean
Simon Bolivar
Reconquista
44. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.
Berlin Conference
Guomindang
World Bank
Minoan
45. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Gentry
Hundred Years War
1945
Warring States Period
46. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)
Jacobins
Bartolomeu Dias
Akhenaten
1962
47. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
Stoicism
Maya
Botany Bay
St. Augustine
48. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Mandate of Heaven
Solomon's Temple
Nuremberg Trials
Ayatollah Khomeini
49. 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.
Horse collar
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
1989
Emperor Menelik
50. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.
Deng Xiaoping
Israel
Varna
1914-1918