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AP World History
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1. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Quran
Marco Polo
Yuan Empire
Monsoon
2. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma
Steppes
6th century BCE
Celts
Bread and Circuses
3. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.
1804
333 CE
Mentuhotep I
Catholic Reformation
4. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.
Akbar
Harappa
Diffusion
Serf
5. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Steam engine
Shogun
Yuan Empire
Faisal
6. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Medina
Stock exchange
Hernan Cortes
Monophysites
7. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred
1929
Solon
Labor union
cuneiform
8. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Zapata
Zen
Ferdinand Magellan
Albert Einstein
9. 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.
European Community
1991
Hiroshima
1776
10. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
Gothic Cathedrals
Deism
Reconquista
1898
11. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Ziggurat
Dirty War
Samsara
Maori
12. 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
Revolutions of 1848
Persia
Moksha
Separate Spheres
13. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens
Tribute system
Hoplite
Safavid Persia
Persian Wars
14. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Sahel
Moksha
Maya
15. 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
Guild
Mandate System
Manchuria
Sanskrit
16. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Jizya
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Peloponnesian War
Yin and yang
17. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.
Indian National Congress
Pearl Harbor
Four Noble Truths
Trireme
18. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.
Little Ice Age
Eva Peron
Mongol Empire
Semitic
19. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Sumer
Junk
League of Nations
Hellenistic Age
20. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Habsburgs
Hammurabi
Jesus
Franz Ferdinand
21. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Tang Empire
Herodotus
Umma
Bartholomew Dias
22. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Pancho Villa
Uigurs
Ulama
Bourgeoisie
23. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Cyrus II
Josiah Wedgwood
Khipu
Beijing
24. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
Yellow Turban
Persepolis
Stock exchange
Monasticism
25. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.
Semitic
House of Burgesses
Tiananmen Square
Dutch West India Company
26. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Albert Einstein
Muslim
Suleiman the Magnificent
Empress Wu
27. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon
Mantra
Tributary system
1517
legalism
28. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
1959
Mesopotamia
Philip II
Fransisco Pizarro
29. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Augustus
Minoans
Gunpowder
Guilds
30. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Olmec
Bourgeoisie
Shakespeare
National Assembly
31. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.
Zen
Hatshepsut
Nuclear nonproliferation
Cortes
32. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Macartney Mission
Shi Huangdi
Crystal Palace
Mughal Empire
33. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Imperialism
Republic
Jacobins
Diffusion
34. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Investiture
2001
1979
Oracle Bones
35. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
Socialists
1848
Witch-hunt
Black Death
36. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Abbasid Caliphate
Sikhs
Cold War
Hundred Years War
37. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Ghana
Sufi
Moksha
Concordat
38. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.
vassal
Chinampas
Modernization
Witchcraft
39. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
Paleolithic
Mali
Chiefdom
Leonid Brezhnev
40. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
Mestizo
Ming
ziggurat
All-India Muslim League
41. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o
Chavin
1066 CE
Zhou
Consul
42. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
Goths
Bhagavad-Gita
Sahel
Tanzimat
43. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
1956
Enlightenment
Ethiopia
3000s BCE
44. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Suez Canal
Octavian
Medina
Oracle Bones
45. 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.
pictograms
Shang
Cossaks
Porfirio Díaz
46. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Cixi
Nirvana
Artha-sastra
Vladimir Lenin
47. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)
Conquistadors
Sandinista
Mass production
1521
48. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
Middle Passage
Fascist Party
Pearl Harbor
ideograms
49. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Siddhartha Gautama
Colonialism
Teotihuacan
Nikita Khrushchev
50. The founder of Buddhism
Mali
Siddhartha Gautama
Ulama
Railroads