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AP World History
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1. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.
Siddhartha Gautama
Silk Road
Saddam Hussein
Jacobins
2. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Bourgeoisie
Tao-te Ching
Emilio Aguinaldo
Leonardo da Vinci
3. 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
cuneiform
Philosophes
Mansa Musa
4. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
Humanism
Karl Marx
180 CE
Sun Yat-Sen
5. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)
Pilgrimage
Triumvirate
1917
221 BCE
6. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Jacobins
Perestroika
Absolutism
Fourteen Points
7. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Pancho Villa
Opium Wars
Lama
Shamanism
8. 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
Proxy war
Paterfamilias
Confucianism
9. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
Pancho Villa
333 CE
Quran
Stoicism
10. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Siddhartha Gautama
Inca
Nation-State
Zen
11. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog
Railroads
Jainism
Mesopotamia
Gothic Cathedrals
12. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.
Sumer
cuneiform
Medina
Mali
13. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
1929
Mass production
Tokugawa Shogunate
1948
14. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Jesus
Indian National Congress
1994
Champa Rice
15. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Jose Morelos
Encomienda
Jizya
Pilgrims
16. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
Great Western Schism
Habsburg
1935
3000s BCE
17. 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
Pancho Villa
Mantra
Opium Wars
Qing Empire
18. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
Buddha
1967
1488
Movable type
19. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Industrial Revolution
Zheng He
Shang Dynasty
Guomindang
20. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented
Akhenaten
Hieroglyphics
Thomas Malthus
cuneiform
21. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
Scholasticism
Cortes
Charlemagne
Dutch West India Company
22. Associations of businessmen and producers
Guilds
Darius I
Philosophes
Cixi
23. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
Rigveda
Thebes
Puranas
Constitutionalism
24. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Inca
Sumerians
French Revolution
Umma
25. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
1776
Weimar Republic
Hydrogen bomb
Enclosure Movement
26. 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.
Holocaust
Berlin Blockade
Nirvana
Suez Canal
27. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena
Protestant Reformation
Napoleon
Shamanism
Gunpowder
28. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
Concordat
Zhou Dynasty
Tokugawa Shogunate
Four Noble Truths
29. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Isfahan
Yellow Turban
World Bank
Sikhs
30. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Christopher Columbus
Sikhs
Akhenaten
Druids
31. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
Siberia
Tamil Kingdoms
Suez Canal
pictograms
32. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
Shogun
Indentured servitude
Hydrogen bomb
City state
33. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
Diaspora
Julius Caesar
1954
333 CE
34. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Dar al-Islam
OPEC
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
35. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Paterfamilias
Assimilation
Balance of power
Shogun
36. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches
Protestant Reformation
Stoicism
Sikhs
Encomienda
37. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Zhou dynasty
Shamanism
Julius Caesar
Manchus
38. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Asoka
Parthians
Pericles
Martin Luther
39. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.
Balance of Power
Jizya
Mahayana Buddhism
Nehru
40. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
Jesus
Mechanization
Steppes
Pax Romana
41. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Francisco Franco
Vasco da Gama
Mestizo
Sunnis
42. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Tao-te Ching
Auschwitz
Girondins
Oracle Bones
43. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.
Catholic Reformation
Patricians
Zhou
Great Zimbabwe
44. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Albert Einstein
Jacobins
Abolition
Emilio Aguinaldo
45. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Leonardo da Vinci
Shinto
Enconmienda
Artha-sastra
46. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Sunnis
Hieroglyphics
Junk
Leonid Brezhnev
47. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Humanism
Creole
Trireme
Humanists
48. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
Jose Morelos
Humanism
John Locke
Peloponnesian War
49. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
1071 CE
1949
Stoicism
Grand Canal
50. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.
Holocaust
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Estates General
Hundred Years War