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AP World History
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1. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Suleiman the Magnificent
Dirty War
League of Nations
Cuban Missile Crisis
2. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
323 BCE
Indian Civil Service
Macartney Mission
1945
3. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A
Humanism
Zhou
Aborigine
Railroads
4. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.
legalism
Botany Bay
Gold Coast
League of Nations
5. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Shang Dynasty
Thomas Malthus
323 BCE
Olmec
6. 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
Roman Republic
Mandate System
Hoplite
1689
7. 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
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1994
Five Year Plans
John Locke
8. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.
Ming
Nirvana
Semitic
Zheng He
9. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Absolutism
Ethiopia
Iconoclast
Goths
10. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Diaspora
Solomon's Temple
Great Zimbabwe
11. Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the in these cities - foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.
Treaty Ports
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Collectivization
1618
12. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Colonialism
Woodrow Wilson
Indian Ocean
Vasco da Gama
13. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Girondins
George Washington
Colombian Exchange
Marco Polo
14. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
Diaspora
Serbia
1588
1095 CE
15. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Pax Romana
Minoan
Darius I
Thomas Edison
16. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Siberia
Pilgrims
Byzantine Empire
Hieroglyphics
17. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Olmec
Champa Rice
Minoan
African National Congress
18. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Maori
Auschwitz
Aqueduct
1607
19. 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.
Carthage
Thomas Malthus
Peloponnesian War
Nonaligned
20. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
Mandate of Heaven
Agricultural Revolution
Siddhartha Gautama
Democracy
21. 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.
Rajputs
Siddhartha Gautama
323 BCE
Maya
22. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
Aqueduct
Alexander the Great
Iconoclast
pictograms
23. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.
Islam
1914-1918
Maya
Druids
24. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.
Francisco Franco
Steam engine
Treaty of Versailles
Jose Morelos
25. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
1776
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Monophysites
Treaty of Versailles
26. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Emperor Menelik
Hatshepsut
Nehru
1917
27. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.
Tamil Kingdoms
City state
Catholic Reformation
Indian Civil Service
28. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ibn Battuta
Kamikaze
Celts
29. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Empress Dowager Cixi
2001
Puritans
Papacy
30. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)
Hadith
Constantinople
Delhi Sulatanate
Mechanization
31. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
Alexander the Great
Hydrogen bomb
Manchuria
1956
32. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno
Submarine telegraph cables
1929
Hellenistic
Shamanism
33. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Vladimir Lenin
Bourgeoisie
Qing Empire
Mulatto
34. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
476 CE
Umma
Roman Republic
Buddha
35. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain
Proxy wars
Treaty of Nanking
323 BCE
Polis
36. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby
Mesopotamia
Divine Right of Kings
Cixi
Buddhism
37. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Tang Revival
Jesus
221 BCE
Moksha
38. 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.
Dutch West India Company
Yellow Turban
Zheng He
3000s BCE
39. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Totalitarianism
Enconmienda
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Rama
40. 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.
527 CE
Sigmund Freud
Black Death
John F. Kennedy
41. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
Third World
Industrial Revolution
Buddha
Silk Road
42. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)
632 CE
Constitutional Convention
Western Front
1324 CE
43. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Simon Bolivar
1066 CE
Champa Rice
King Charles I
44. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
1917
Zoroastrianism
Three-field system
Napoleonic Wars
45. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Ethiopia
1804
5th century BCE
Khipu
46. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
Iron curtain
10000 BCE
Roman Senate
1905
47. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
1521
1756
Maximillien Robespierre
Mohandas Gandhi
48. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Nazism
Witch-hunt
Byzantine Empire
Durbar
49. German leader of the Nazi Party
Emperor Menelik
1776
Aristotle
Adolf Hitler
50. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Plato
Yin and yang