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AP World History
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1. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Francisco Franco
Shi Huangdi
Sumerians
Timur
2. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Sigmund Freud
Protestant Reformation
Proxy wars
Jesuits
3. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.
Manor
Roman Republic
Tributary system
Aborigine
4. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Sanskrit
Tang Empire
Mentuhotep I
Stock exchange
5. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
1917
Habsburgs
Isfahan
Zimmerman telegram
6. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
Bolsheviks
Zoroaster
Mass deportation
Solidarity
7. 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.
Thebes
Democracy
Tribune
Timur
8. 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.
1492
Deism
Bourgeoisie
Golden Horde
9. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.
Getulio Vargas
Guomindang
legalism
Albert Einstein
10. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
1899
Empress Wu
Lama
Mongols
11. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Long March
Pericles
Cultural imperialism
Cuban Missile Crisis
12. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
Telegraph
Bolshevik
Declaration of the Rights of Man
WTO
13. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)
Samurai
Mechanization
Royal African Company
Steppes
14. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Mita
1810s
Apostle Paul
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
15. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Bolshevik
Nikita Khrushchev
Suleiman the Magnificent
Deism
16. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)
1776
assimilation
cuneiform
3000s BCE
17. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
Montezuma II
Sikhism
Hadith
Yellow River
18. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Mandate of Heaven
Agricultural Revolution
Theodosius
Labor union
19. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Kievan Russia
Khomeini
Reconquista
Samsara
20. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Confucianism
Khubilai Khan
Empiricism
Ulama
21. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
Buddhism
Postmodernism
Telegraph
Salvador Allende
22. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.
World Bank
Industrial Revolution
Steel
Mestizo
23. 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.
Vedas
Puritans
Pearl Harbor
1810s
24. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
All-India Muslim League
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hiroshima
Napoleon Bonaparte
25. 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.
Pilgrimage
Swahili
Hellenistic
Great Zimbabwe
26. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Shang Dynasty
Puritans
Capitalism
Abolition
27. The founder of Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama
Vedas
Charles Darwin
1815
28. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.
Suez Canal
Nomad
1848
Mohandas Gandhi
29. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
ideograms
Maori
Socrates
Herodotus
30. 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.
1066 CE
Qin
Cyrus
1994
31. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Conquistadors
Samsara
Joseph Stalin
Hammurabi
32. German leader of the Nazi Party
Zhou Dynasty
Roman Republic
Adolf Hitler
1571
33. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Jacobins
Mestizo
Shah Abbas I
Tao-te Ching
34. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt
Kievan Russia
Muhammad Ali
Cambyses II
Caravel
35. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
1433 CE
1861
Gold Coast
Qin
36. 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
Augustus
Four Noble Truths
Swahili
1948
37. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.
1948
Tribune
Shakespeare
Zen
38. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Yuan Empire
Concordat
Henry the Navigator
Ibn Battuta
39. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
Macartney Mission
1954
Berlin Blockade
King Leopold II King of Belgium
40. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Witch-hunt
Habsburg
1935
Vladimir Lenin
41. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Auschwitz
Scramble for Africa
Creoles
1935
42. 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.
Indentured servitude
1588
Creoles
Siddhartha Gautama
43. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Winston Churchill
Investiture
Alexander the Great
Apostle Paul
44. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Congress of Vienna
Maori
Plebeians
Ferdinand Magellan
45. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
Warsaw Pact
Zapata
Socialists
180 CE
46. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
1095 CE
National Assembly
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Artha-sastra
47. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Pax Mongolica
NATO
United Nations
Enlightenment
48. 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.
Safavid Empire
Fascism
Caesar Augustus
Italian Renaissance
49. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.
Janissary
Three-field system
Umayyad Caliphate
Manumission
50. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Vedas
Hellenistic
Opium Wars
Alexander the Great