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AP World History
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1. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the
Aztecs
Cixi
1095 CE
Diocletian
2. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Fresco
National Assembly
Daoism
Sepoy
3. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Creole
476 CE
1521
Hittites
4. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.
Dar al-Islam
Alexandria
Victorian Age
Diaspora
5. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Bartolomeu Dias
Diaspora
Hatshepsut
Asian Tigers
6. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty
Three-field system
Qin
John F. Kennedy
Zulu
7. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
Indulgences
Julius Caesar
1935
George Washington
8. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Agricultural Revolution
Balance of power
Babylonian Empire
Kepler
9. 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
Nation-State
Mass production
Tokugawa Shogunate
Neocolonialism
10. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
OPEC
Constitutionalism
Three-field system
Monsoon
11. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Indian National Congress
Pericles
Wheel of Life
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
12. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
6th century BCE
Papacy
Separate Spheres
Hieroglyphics
13. 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.
United Nations
Nubians
Diocletian
Faisal
14. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Nonaligned
legalism
loess
Aqueduct
15. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Divination
Hammurabi
Cecil Rhodes
Samurai
16. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Habsburg
Czar
Bengal
Gens de couleur
17. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.
Umma
Crystal Palace
1066 CE
Zoroastrianism
18. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.
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19. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Gold Coast
Comfort girls
1325 CE
Sunnis
20. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
Max Planck
Trireme
1488
1300 BCE
21. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Faisal
Colombian Exchange
Benjamin Franklin
League of Nations
22. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Pancho Villa
Stalingrad
Nikita Khrushchev
Druids
23. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Kamikaze
Constantinople
Guilds
Extraterritoriality
24. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent
Divine Right of Kings
Diaspora
Sasanid Empire
Syncretism
25. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Bourgeoisie
European Community
Collectivization
26. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
Perestroika
Jenne-Jeno
National Assembly
Sandinista
27. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Cossaks
1571
1863
Vedas
28. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
Shakespeare
Consul
Puranas
Xia
29. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Middle Passage
Capitalism
Capitalism
Swahili
30. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
Franz Ferdinand
Bartolome de Las Casas
Cossaks
1300 BCE
31. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
Kievan Russia
Guild
Janapadas
Alexander the Great
32. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Legalism
Bolsheviks
Absolutism
Ptolemy
33. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs
Kievan Russia
1517
Zhou Dynasty
Atlantic System
34. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
Fresco
Bolsheviks
Sasanid Empire
Charles Darwin
35. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Neo-Assyrians
Alexander the Great
Semitic
Darius I
36. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
hadith
Bourgeoisie
Indian Civil Service
Tanzimat
37. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Maximillien Robespierre
Richard Arkwright
Mercantilism
Inca
38. 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
Persian Wars
Young Turks
Yin and yang
Hellenistic
39. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.
Helsinki Accords
Manumission
Mongol Empire
333 CE
40. Date: French Revolution begins
1789
Indian Ocean
1987
WTO
41. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Absolutism
loess
Zhou dynasty
George Washington
42. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Western Front
Jenne-jeno
deforestation
Witchcraft
43. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
Umma
Tenochtitlan
Akhenaten
Minoan
44. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Bourgeoisie
476 CE
Cossaks
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
45. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Zulu
Junk
Movable type
1810s
46. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Cotton
Cottage industry
Sokoto Caliphate
Deng Xiaoping
47. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Mita
Manumission
Assimilation
Manor
48. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Agora
WTO
Qing Empire
liberalism
49. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
Vishnu
Zoroastrianism
Tribute system
Republic
50. 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.
Cottage industry
Khmer Empire
Muscovy
Thebes