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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
Stone Age
Stoicism
National Assembly
Tanakh
2. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
Memphis
Fransisco Pizarro
Indian Ocean
Holocaust
3. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
2001
1967
Hellenistic Age
Ramesses II
4. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.
Girondins
Forbidden City
Fransisco Pizarro
1911
5. 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.
Sumerians
Atahualpa
Benito Mussolini
OPEC
6. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Crusades
Solomon's Temple
Rama
Persepolis
7. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.
Bartolomeu Dias
Diaspora
Imperialism
Shang Dynasty
8. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Caravel
Guild
Caste system
Trireme
9. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
James Watt
Nazism
Economic sanctions
Nasir al-Din Tusi
10. 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.
1939
Hoplite
Golden Horde
Tang Empire
11. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.
Panama Canal
pictograms
Peloponnesian War
1885
12. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires
Punic Wars
Woodrow Wilson
ziggurat
Persia
13. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Economic sanctions
Empress Dowager Cixi
Extraterritoriality
Sikhs
14. 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.
Serbia
Olmec
Zhou
220 CE
15. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Guomindang
Zen
1931
Peloponnesian War
16. 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.
Maya
Sandinista
Pilgrimage
Ayatollah Khomeini
17. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Pilgrimage
Hatshepsut
Khmer Empire
Declaration of the Rights of Man
18. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Colombian Exchange
Olmec
Berlin Conference
Triumvirate
19. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.
1453 CE
Constantinople
Mita
Treaty of Versailles
20. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
1898
Kamikaze
Semitic
Leonardo da Vinci
21. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.
Ming
Eva Peron
Solomon's Temple
Scholasticism
22. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.
527 CE
Hanseatic League
Reconquista
Salvador Allende
23. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
Papyrus
Thebes
Cortes
1871
24. 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
Carthage
Cultural Revolution
ziggurat
Apostle Paul
25. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
Marie Curie
NATO
1962
Young Turks
26. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
Socrates
Scientific Revolution
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Pax Mongolica
27. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a
Alexandria
Safavid Persia
Muslim
Faisal
28. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Indulgence
Tanakh
Babylon
Maya
29. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an
1941
1325 CE
Stoicism
Pilgrimage
30. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Christopher Columbus
1863
Cuban Missile Crisis
Porfirio Díaz
31. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Hernan Cortes
Marco Polo
Monsoon
James Watt
32. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Shang Dynasty
Deng Xiaoping
Colonialism
Kievan Russia
33. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Juan Peron
1453 CE
New Economic Policy
Siberia
34. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Joesph Stalin
Sudetenland
Constantinople
Ming
35. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Hiroshima
Gupta Empire
Ulama
Cortes
36. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
Acropolis
1919
Gupta Empire
1941
37. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
Mansa Musa
Scholasticism
hadith
Jose Morelos
38. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
1853
Macartney Mission
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
39. The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia - where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community.
4th century CE
1300 BCE
Umma
Ghana
40. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Hittites
Christopher Columbus
Umma
Papyrus
41. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S
Capitalism
Jenne-jeno
Civilian Conservation Corps
Puritans
42. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)
Berlin Conference
1789
1948
1885
43. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Thomas Edison
Witch-hunt
Capitalism
1929
44. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Akbar
1517
Fransisco Pizarro
Chinampas
45. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
Botany Bay
House of Burgesses
Little Ice Age
Aryans
46. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.
1071 CE
Mestizo
Monotheism
Devshirme
47. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Sunnis
Mita
Apostle Paul
Three-field system
48. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Islam
Pancho Villa
1979
Ramesses II
49. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
Mecca
Babylonian Empire
Leonid Brezhnev
Chavin
50. 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.
liberalism
Caesar Augustus
Romanization
Ghana
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