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AP World History
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1. Date: Korean War starts
Varna
Humanists
Chiang Kai-Shek
1950
2. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Thomas Edison
Akbar
Vladimir Lenin
Black Death
3. Date: 9/11 Attacks
1271-1295 CE
Saddam Hussein
Bartolomeu Dias
2001
4. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Legalism
Hammurabi
Vasco da Gama
1954
5. 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)
Salvador Allende
NATO
Bartolomeu Dias
Philosophes
6. 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
Maya
Gupta Empire
Teotihuacan
Hellenistic Age
7. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Leonardo da Vinci
Mecca
Punic Wars
Guild
8. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Czar
Taiping Rebellion
Plebeians
Ethiopia
9. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.
Max Planck
Warring States Period
Daoism
Charles Darwin
10. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
1853
Hoplite
Sikhs
Talmud
11. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Druids
Shi Huangdi
Nonaligned
Henry the Navigator
12. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Darius I
Medieval
Creole
Constantinople
13. 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.
Gens de couleur
Samurai
Fransisco Pizarro
Korean War
14. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Bartolome de Las Casas
Ramesses II
Pax Romana
732 CE
15. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
Moksha
1839
Sumerians
Olmec
16. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)
Benjamin Franklin
Thebes
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Xia
17. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
1258 CE
Umayyad Caliphate
Fourteen Points
323 BCE
18. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).
1935
Romanization
Nongovernmental Organizations
Hittites
19. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Cambyses II
Babylon
Apostle Paul
Mandate of Heaven
20. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
World Bank
Mercantilism
Great Circuit
Cyrus
21. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
Vishnu
1324 CE
1919
323 BCE
22. The central text of Daoism.
Tao-te Ching
1810s
Olmec
Uigurs
23. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC
1683
Cotton
Mahabharata
Fascist Party
24. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
Labor union
Mandate System
Constitutional Convention
Sanskrit
25. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Druids
Aqueduct
Agricultural Revolution
Cortes
26. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
Han
Zulu
1300 BCE
Nirvana
27. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Montezuma II
Yellow Turban
Jesuits
McCarthyism
28. 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.
Mauryan Empire
Mandate System
Hegemony
Zapata
29. 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
Daoism
Alexander the Great
Asian Tigers
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
30. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan
United Nations
Persepolis
Abbasid Caliphate
Centuries
31. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
Semitic
220 CE
Grand Canal
Muhammad Ali
32. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
Carthage
Kamikaze
Printing press
Ghana
33. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Nation-State
Samurai
Totalitarianism
Warring States Period
34. German leader of the Nazi Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Olmec
Adolf Hitler
Sun Yat-sen
35. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Balance of Power
Middle Passage
Indentured servitude
Gens de couleur
36. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)
Shamanism
1954
Dar al-Islam
Aswan High Dam
37. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Stalingrad
Hadith
Ibn Battuta
Babylonian Empire
38. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami
liberalism
McCarthyism
Bourgeoisie
Sumerians
39. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Mycenae
1756
Hegemony
632 CE
40. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.
Pax Romana
Opium Wars
ziggurat
Huns
41. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Western Front
Suleiman the Magnificent
Shang Dynasty
Diaspora
42. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
Gulag
Zhou Dynasty
1607
The Mahdi
43. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
1433 CE
1948
Hittites
Ming
44. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)
Mahayana Buddhism
Extraterritoriality
Medina
1347 CE
45. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
Charlemagne
United Nations
Thomas Malthus
Manchuria
46. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
Hittites
Cotton
Botany Bay
Sun Yat-sen
47. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Yin and yang
1324 CE
Solon
Patricians
48. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Lama
Mulatto
Fascist Party
Hammurabi
49. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Shang
Pax Mongolica
Zhou dynasty
loess
50. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.
Treaty of Versailles
Mandate of Heaven
Apostle Paul
Teotihuacan