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AP World History
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1. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Indulgence
Zimmerman telegram
Silk Road
Albert Einstein
2. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Peloponnesian War
Dirty War
1945
Durbar
3. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Ottomans
Proxy wars
Telegraph
Octavian
4. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Tribune
Daoism
Tang Revival
Lama
5. 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.
Beijing
Horse collar
Islam
Mycenae
6. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Satrapy
1095 CE
Patricians
7. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
Socialists
Gens de couleur
James Watt
Chinampas
8. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Colombian Exchange
Medina
Abolition
Enlightenment
9. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
95 Theses
Toussaint L'Ouverture
1931
Moksha
10. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
1979
Ramesses II
Mestizo
Minoan
11. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Enlightenment
Nonaligned
Tennis Court Oath
assimilation
12. Date: end of WWII
1945
Constantine
Stoicism
vassal
13. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Cold War
Gold Coast
Buddha
Suleiman the Magnificent
14. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.
Zimmerman telegram
Enlightenment
Ziggurat
Mestizo
15. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.
Punic Wars
1905
King Leopold II King of Belgium
1492
16. 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
Bourgeoisie
Mestizo
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
WTO
17. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)
Tenochtitlan
Huns
Great Western Schism
Code of Hammurabi
18. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.
assimilation
European Community
Manumission
Witch-hunt
19. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Terrorism
Mestizo
Hydrogen bomb
221 BCE
20. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Armenia
Nazism
Carthage
21. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.
Napoleon
Hebrew Bible
1258 CE
1948
22. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.
Indian Ocean
Tiananmen Square
Bolsheviks
Dharma
23. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Mulatto
Zaibatsu
Nonaligned
Salvador Allende
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
ziggurat
Rajputs
Charles Darwin
Delhi Sulatanate
25. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga
Western Front
Revolutions of 1848
Hoplite
Hittites
26. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
Qin
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Jainism
Empress Dowager Cixi
27. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
1848
Gold Coast
Jesuits
Rigveda
28. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Persepolis
Encomienda
Fourteen Points
New Economic Policy
29. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Cottage industry
6th century BCE
French Revolution
Artha-sastra
30. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Beijing
Mamluks
Goths
Deng Xiaoping
31. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)
Balance of Power
Civilian Conservation Corps
221 BCE
Revolutions of 1848
32. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
ideograms
Teotihuacan
Solidarity
Joint-stock company
33. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Stock exchange
Salvador Allende
Crusades
1588
34. 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.
Isfahan
Qing Empire
New Economic Policy
Dutch West India Company
35. 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.
Ramesses II
221 BCE
Hundred Years War
Gunpowder
36. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Sandinista
Four Noble Truths
527 CE
Junk
37. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Oracle Bones
The Golden Triangle
Zaibatsu
Tiananmen Square
38. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
Pancho Villa
1917
Tiananmen Square
1683
39. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
St. Augustine
Celts
Humanism
Tamil Kingdoms
40. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Monasticism
Ming
Mita
Apostle Paul
41. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
Teotihuacan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Legalism
hadith
42. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
Helsinki Accords
Manchuria
Capitalism
Darius I
43. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Republic
Thomas Edison
Jenne-Jeno
Bourgeoisie
44. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Acropolis
5th century BCE
Emperor Menelik
Joint-stock company
45. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.
Parthians
Constantine
Alexandria
Daoism
46. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
Humanism
Mandate of Heaven
Christopher Columbus
WTO
47. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')
Zimmerman telegram
Rigveda
Sasanid Empire
5th century BCE
48. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility
1300 BCE
Legalism
Jacobins
Caste system
49. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Mecca
Constantinople
Alexander the Great
Fresco
50. 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
Hydrogen bomb
Jesuits
Cecil Rhodes