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AP World History
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1. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
Stone Age
Emilano Zapata
Glorious Revolution
Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Stone Age
Neolithic
Western Front
1258 CE
3. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Max Planck
Sandinistas
Humanism
Oracle Bones
4. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Macedonia
1271-1295 CE
Hiroshima
Zapata
5. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Alexander the Great
Manchus
Treaty of Versailles
Tributary system
6. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Columbian Exchange
Silk Road
Hittites
Beijing
7. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
10000 BCE
Safavid Persia
Cultural imperialism
Champa Rice
8. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
1954
Suez Canal
Constantine
Shi Huangdi
9. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Solidarity
Paterfamilias
Parthians
Chinampas
10. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Solidarity
Carthage
1571
Ibn Khaldun
11. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe
Goths
1959
liberalism
NATO
12. 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.
Talmud
Mahabharata
Janissary
Meiji Restoration
13. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.
Congress of Vienna
Vladimir Lenin
Minoans
Qin
14. Date: independence & partition of India
Third World
United Nations
Yurt
1947
15. The process of reforming political - military - economic - social - and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies - often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies.
Constantine
Karma
Persepolis
Modernization
16. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Italian Renaissance
Lama
Mahabharata
Medina
17. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice
Confucianism
Plato
Khomeini
Mycenae
18. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
Iroquois Confederacy
Agora
Mandate System
Glorious Revolution
19. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)
Encomienda
632 CE
Mohandas Gandhi
1987
20. 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.
Karma
Holy Roman Empire
Jenne-Jeno
Five Year Plans
21. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Socialists
Pax Romana
Neolithic
Sahel
22. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Karma
Stoicism
New Economic Policy
Hegemony
23. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
Adolf Hitler
Dirty War
Industrial Revolution
1054 CE
24. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Song Dynasty
1941
Bolshevik
Manchuria
25. Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture.
Byzantine Empire
Liu Bang
Diaspora
Witch-hunt
26. 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
Collectivization
Durbar
Perestroika
Young Turks
27. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Holocaust
Montezuma II
Mestizo
Ottomans
28. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.
Apostle Paul
Tributary system
Shi'a
Paterfamilias
29. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
333 CE
732 CE
Pax Mongolica
1848
30. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
Indulgences
Hundred Years War
Durbar
Ulama
31. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
1571
Cottage industry
Macartney Mission
Manumission
32. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
1905
Creoles
African National Congress
Great Zimbabwe
33. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America
Augustus
Neocolonialism
Henry the Navigator
Thebes
34. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Suez Canal
NATO
Colonialism
Charles Darwin
35. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.
Nubians
Sub-Saharan Africa
Mohandas Gandhi
Opium Wars
36. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.
Abbasid Caliphate
1994
Investiture
Witchcraft
37. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Middle Passage
1898
Mao Zedong
Nazca
38. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.
assimilation
Taiping Rebellion
Laissez Faire
Monasticism
39. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Hundred Years War
Plato
Investiture
1905
40. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
Hieroglyphics
Aswan High Dam
Diaspora
vassal
41. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Pilgrims
Hittites
Ma'at
Adolf Hitler
42. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent
Guilds
Cyrus II
Divine Right of Kings
Nuclear nonproliferation
43. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Atlantic System
Tiananmen Square
Hittites
Colonialism
44. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Pancho Villa
Creoles
Medieval
Artha-sastra
45. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Ulama
Delhi Sultanate
Emilano Zapata
Yongle
46. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
Samurai
Hydrogen bomb
Balance of power
Nation-State
47. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan
1502
Persepolis
cuneiform
Bread and Circuses
48. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
323 BCE
Karl Marx
Teotihuacan
Deism
49. 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
Song Dynasty
Tao-te Ching
Bartolome de Las Casas
50. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Separate Spheres
Mercantilism
Mantra
Balance of Power