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AP World History
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1. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.
Saddam Hussein
Hernan Cortes
Ferdinand Magellan
Mikhail Gorbachev
2. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
NATO
Roman Principate
1948
Confucius
3. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
Emperor Menelik
Horse collar
Guomindang
Mein Kampf
4. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
1871
Safavid Empire
Sun Yat-sen
Agricultural Revolution
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
Railroads
Augustus
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Medieval
6. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Great Zimbabwe
Mita
1839
Alexandria
7. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
1324 CE
Benito Mussolini
32 CE
Medieval
8. 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.
Socrates
4th century CE
Mauryan Empire
1871
9. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Yongle
Treaty Ports
Mass deportation
Mita
10. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Creole
King Charles I
Ramesses II
11. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam
Sufi
Qin
1071 CE
Babylonian Empire
12. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Samsara
Christopher Columbus
liberalism
Guild
13. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
African National Congress
Christopher Columbus
Mein Kampf
1300 BCE
14. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
Repartimiento
1962
Winston Churchill
1853
15. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Vedas
Sokoto Caliphate
Yellow River
Plato
16. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.
Electricity
1857
Cuban Missile Crisis
Puritans
17. 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
Romanization
Tang Revival
National Assembly
Constantinople
18. 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.
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Zhou dynasty
Ma'at
Caliphate
19. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Vladimir Lenin
Ming
1789
Samsara
20. 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
Realpolitik
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Emperor Menelik
Humanists
21. Date: Korean War starts
Humanism
1950
Kamikaze
Mein Kampf
22. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Indian Civil Service
Witch-hunt
1919
1618
23. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)
Movable type
NATO
Yellow River
Weimar Republic
24. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.
Medina
Romanization
Zoroaster
Sandinista
25. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Deng Xiaoping
Gentry
European Community
Mass deportation
26. 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)
1991
Minoan
Hundred Years War
Protestant Reformation
27. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Josiah Wedgwood
Consul
ideograms
Sumerians
28. 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.
Porfirio Díaz
Cultural Revolution
Proxy wars
Charles Darwin
29. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Scientific Revolution
Liu Bang
Lama
Varna
30. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Code of Hammurabi
4th century CE
Sandinistas
1776
31. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o
Bengal
Mita
Iroquois Confederacy
Macartney Mission
32. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.
Zulu
Afrikaners
Cambyses II
Hacienda
33. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600
Italian Renaissance
Qin
ethnic cleansing
Thomas Malthus
34. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
Maya
Siddhartha Gautama
1979
Pax Mongolica
35. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
Printing press
Nehru
Saddam Hussein
Shamanism
36. German leader of the Nazi Party
1954
The Mahdi
Adolf Hitler
Zulu
37. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.
221 BCE
John F. Kennedy
Semitic
Wheel of Life
38. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Babylonian Empire
Diocletian
1347 CE
Ferdinand Magellan
39. 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.
Mughal Empire
Indentured servitude
Collectivization
1899
40. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Otto von Bismarck
Thomas Edison
1853
Constantine
41. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
Carthage
Auschwitz
Iron curtain
Horse collar
42. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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43. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Cuban Missile Crisis
Caesar Augustus
Muhammad Ali
Nehru
44. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Minoans
Delhi Sultanate
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Umma
45. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.
Carthage
6th century BCE
Mohenjo-Daro
Iroquois Confederacy
46. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Hernan Cortes
Hiroshima
Manchuria
Peloponnesian War
47. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Manor
Fascist Party
Leonardo da Vinci
527 CE
48. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
1917
Persepolis
Cyrus II
Tanakh
49. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Abbasid Caliphate
Cambyses II
Akbar
Scientific Revolution
50. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
Maya
1941
Enconmienda
Neocolonialism