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AP World History
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1. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Shang
Fransisco Pizarro
Young Turks
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Marco Polo
Ayatollah Khomeini
Constantinople
Philosophes
3. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
Jenne-jeno
Solon
Opium Wars
Meiji Restoration
4. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil
Silk Road
Karma
Bengal
Zoroastrianism
5. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
Stone Age
Zulu
Absolutism
1600
6. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
hadith
1300 BCE
1863
Shang
7. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
32 CE
McCarthyism
Simon Bolivar
Nongovernmental Organizations
8. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Humanism
Atlantic System
Daoism
9. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Atahualpa
Stoicism
Bartolomeu Dias
Guomindang
10. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
liberalism
Nuclear nonproliferation
Cortes
1502
11. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.
1810s
Zoroastrianism
Pilgrims
Panama Canal
12. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).
Varna
Czar
Hernan Cortes
Bhagavad-Gita
13. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Habsburgs
Papyrus
Suez Canal
Bengal
14. 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.
Papyrus
Mahabharata
Hinduism
Joesph Stalin
15. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.
Auschwitz
Gunpowder
Hundred Years War
Tanzimat
16. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno
Diffusion
Submarine telegraph cables
Sepoy Mutiny
Puritans
17. 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.
Polis
Hammurabi
Guomindang
Benjamin Franklin
18. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
Delhi Sulatanate
Celts
Hittites
Qing Empire
19. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Neo-Assyrians
Peloponnesian War
Joseph Stalin
Little Ice Age
20. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Tributary system
Zulu
Mass deportation
Enlightenment
21. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Benito Mussolini
1987
10000 BCE
Eva Peron
22. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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23. 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
Stoicism
Otto von Bismarck
Republic
Sanskrit
24. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.
Jenne-Jeno
Tennis Court Oath
Carthage
Yuan Empire
25. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Muhammad
Stoicism
Hernan Cortes
Fertile Crescent
26. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Fertile Crescent
Divination
Humanists
27. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.
ideograms
Mauryan Empire
Manor
1839
28. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')
Pax Romana
5th century BCE
Colombian Exchange
1776
29. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.
Christopher Columbus
Aqueduct
Suleiman the Magnificent
Golden Horde
30. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
Enlightenment
Timur
1815
Cultural Revolution
31. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Mandate of Heaven
1910
Long March
French Revolution
32. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
Mohenjo-Daro
Ghana
1066 CE
pictograms
33. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.
Tribune
Thomas Edison
Sun Yat-Sen
Hernan Cortes
34. 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.
Economic sanctions
Treaty of Versailles
Martin Luther
Sasanid Empire
35. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Vladimir Lenin
hadith
Mandate System
Deng Xiaoping
36. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
1910
WTO
Montezuma II
Hellenistic Age
37. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
Horse collar
Suleiman the Magnificent
Solon
Tanzimat
38. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Solidarity
Great Circuit
1911
Kepler
39. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Stock exchange
Vedas
Dirty War
St. Augustine
40. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.
Oracle Bones
Investiture
Dar al-Islam
Junk
41. '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
1919
Theravada Buddhism
Serbia
Investiture
42. 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
Tokugawa Shogunate
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Enclosure Movement
Enlightenment
43. 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
Jainism
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ulama
Franklin D. Roosevelt
44. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969
Charles de Gaulle
Herodotus
Holocaust
Hebrew Bible
45. 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.
Dar al-Islam
Tokugawa Shogunate
1910
The Mahdi
46. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Harappa
Paleolithic
Alexander the Great
Rajputs
47. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
Constantinople
Hiroshima
Gothic Cathedrals
Roman Principate
48. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
1502
Druids
Berlin Conference
Scientific Revolution
49. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.
Glorious Revolution
Daoism
Delhi Sultanate
Afrikaners
50. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Pancho Villa
Yuan Empire
Talmud
Driver