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AP World History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it






2. 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






3. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.






4. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)






5. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift






6. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.






7. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha






8. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






9. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






10. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.






11. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.






12. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)






13. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'






14. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






15. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.






16. 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.






17. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them






18. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.






19. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.






20. 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.






21. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system






22. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)






23. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.






24. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






25. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.






26. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.






27. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.






28. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)






29. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.






30. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.






31. 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






32. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.






33. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.






34. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor






35. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






36. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.






37. 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.






38. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)






39. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population






40. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.






41. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






42. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.






43. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.






44. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.






45. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.






46. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)






47. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






48. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.






49. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)






50. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area