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AP World History
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1. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age
Colonization
Daoism
Stone Age
Mercantilism
2. 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.
1956
Mass production
220 CE
Golden Horde
3. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war
Tito
Quran
1905
Civilian Conservation Corps
4. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Alexandria
Hadith
1863
Yin and yang
5. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.
Teotihuacan
Monsoon
Sumer
Alexander the Great
6. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
1919
Ibn Khaldun
Sikhs
Sun Yat-sen
7. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
All-India Muslim League
Liu Bang
Vishnu
Yurt
8. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.
Nuclear nonproliferation
Crystal Palace
Ottomans
Julius Caesar
9. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Inca
Akhenaten
Comfort girls
Pancho Villa
10. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Gentry
Mita
Mandate of Heaven
Hundred Years War
11. 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
Rajputs
2001
Winston Churchill
Opium Wars
12. 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.
Pilgrimage
1962
Sun Yat-Sen
Diocletian
13. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Jacobins
Witch-hunt
Darius I
Nation-State
14. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing
Stone Age
Herodotus
Sanskrit
15. 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.
Wheel of Life
Tribune
Manor
Christopher Columbus
16. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Grand Canal
1815
Olmec
Sigmund Freud
17. 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.
Khubilai Khan
Jesuits
John F. Kennedy
Lama
18. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
ziggurat
Empress Dowager Cixi
95 Theses
Druids
19. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
1815
Thomas Edison
Shi'a
Korean War
20. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Otto von Bismarck
Dalai Lama
Zimmerman telegram
Zulu
21. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Winston Churchill
Collectivization
220 CE
Gujarat
22. 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.
Aryans
Divine Right of Kings
1991
Indian Civil Service
23. 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.
Zoroastrianism
1857
Printing press
Herodotus
24. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
Socialists
Huguenot
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Manor
25. The process of reforming political - military - economic - social - and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies - often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies.
Modernization
Shinto
1095 CE
Mahabharata
26. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Mita
Shogun
Bourgeoisie
Socialists
27. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Tanakh
Hittites
Aswan High Dam
1949
28. 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.
Iroquois Confederacy
Celts
Cossaks
Junk
29. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
Ramesses II
Yongle
Theravada Buddhism
1962
30. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Dirty War
Third World
Mesopotamia
1300 BCE
31. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
Mestizo
Hydrogen bomb
Syncretism
The Mahdi
32. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
Cultural imperialism
Emperor Menelik
Theravada Buddhism
Samsara
33. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Tito
1347 CE
Ptolemy
Balance of power
34. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Lama
Zhou Dynasty
Jose Morelos
Henry the Navigator
35. 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.
Caesar Augustus
Indian National Congress
Iconoclast
Hammurabi
36. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Muhammad
Sumerians
Armenia
Shi'a
37. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
John Locke
Nation-State
Saddam Hussein
Mechanization
38. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
1848
hadith
Delhi Sultanate
1967
39. Ultraconservative empress in Qing (Manchu) dynasty China. Ruled china in the turbulent late 19th century - not as a true Empress but as an Empress Dowager.
Benjamin Franklin
Thebes
Separate Spheres
Cixi
40. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
Stone Age
Vedas
Mercantilism
41. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.
Botany Bay
League of Nations
Suez Canal
Witchcraft
42. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Sanskrit
Hoplite
Code of Hammurabi
Chiefdom
43. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.
Janissaries
Abolition
Telegraph
Roman Senate
44. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.
pictograms
Empress Wu
Centuries
The Golden Triangle
45. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
1571
Cambyses II
Medieval
Warring States Period
46. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
World Bank
John Locke
Hegemony
Great Western Schism
47. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Vishnu
1618
1945
1271-1295 CE
48. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Great Zimbabwe
Dar al-Islam
Saddam Hussein
Yuan Empire
49. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)
Woodrow Wilson
Hieroglyphics
1776
1935
50. 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.
Serbia
Octavian
Peloponnesian War
Holy Roman Empire