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AP World History
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1. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Deng Xiaoping
Divination
Carthage
Epic of Gilgamesh
2. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity
Encomienda
Ming
Fourteen Points
Qin
3. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
1948
1959
National Assembly
NATO
4. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
Puritans
1935
Cambyses II
Ziggurat
5. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.
Jenne-jeno
Plato
loess
Yurt
6. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Fourteen Points
Tenochtitlan
Otto von Bismarck
Submarine telegraph cables
7. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.
Three-field system
Sumer
Ming
Byzantine Empire
8. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Rajputs
Leonardo da Vinci
Delhi Sulatanate
Tribute system
9. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a
Indentured servitude
Great Zimbabwe
Alexandria
Ethiopia
10. 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.
Hittites
Martin Luther
Rajputs
Conquistadors
11. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi
Darius I
Industrial Revolution
Aswan High Dam
Caesar Augustus
12. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.
Caesar Augustus
Indentured servitude
Josiah Wedgwood
Gamal Abdel Nasser
13. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
World Bank
Daoism
Vladimir Lenin
Solidarity
14. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.
Druids
Constantine
Gamal Abdel Nasser
New Imperialism
15. 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
Protestant Reformation
1600
Mercantilism
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
16. 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.
Republic
Vladimir Lenin
Tenochtitlan
1857
17. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
City state
6th century BCE
Winston Churchill
Ziggurat
18. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Pax Romana
Vladimir Lenin
Ming
Cyrus II
19. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.
Delian League
Ulama
Diffusion
Salvador Allende
20. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
1910
vassal
1956
Aborigine
21. 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
Scientific Revolution
1931
Mandate System
Epic of Gilgamesh
22. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
Great Zimbabwe
Vishnu
1947
Sanskrit
23. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Apostle Paul
Cultural imperialism
Ulama
Zimmerman telegram
24. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
Hundred Years War
Zheng He
1979
Gunpowder
25. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.
Silk Road
Punic Wars
Mauryan Empire
1433 CE
26. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ghana
Indulgence
John F. Kennedy
Creole
27. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
Christopher Columbus
Civilian Conservation Corps
Berlin Conference
Plebeians
28. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
Zoroastrianism
Tenochtitlan
World Bank
Cambyses II
29. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian War
Vladimir Lenin
Druids
Four Noble Truths
30. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.
Hadith
6th century BCE
Tennis Court Oath
Witchcraft
31. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Bread and Circuses
Montezuma II
Zheng He
1959
32. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
Hieroglyphics
Tao-te Ching
Agricultural Revolution
Porfirio Díaz
33. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
Mita
Fertile Crescent
Thebes
Hiroshima
34. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Gupta Empire
Montezuma II
Delhi Sulatanate
Ethiopia
35. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Paleolithic
Royal African Company
1810s
36. 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.
Protestant Reformation
Mentuhotep I
Three-field system
Sikhism
37. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
Sufi
Han
1919
Hiroshima
38. 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
Sepoy Mutiny
Comfort girls
Scramble for Africa
Sasanid Empire
39. 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.
Mohenjo-Daro
Bolsheviks
Dutch West India Company
Yellow Turban
40. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.
Asante
Harappa
New Imperialism
1810s
41. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
Mao Zedong
Steppes
Middle Passage
Indulgences
42. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.
Delhi Sultanate
Economic sanctions
Twelve Tables
Dutch West India Company
43. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Serbia
Sahel
Horse collar
Cold War
44. 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.
Charles Darwin
Aryans
Mentuhotep I
Scientific Revolution
45. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Investiture
Habsburgs
Scramble for Africa
46. 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.
Druids
Timur
Theodosius
Hadith
47. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Mughal Empire
Steppes
Han
Nuremberg Trials
48. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1871
Yellow River
Epic of Gilgamesh
Joseph Stalin
49. English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame - a machine that - with minimal human supervision - could spin several threads at onc
Richard Arkwright
Iron curtain
Peloponnesian War
King Charles I
50. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches
Patricians
Protestant Reformation
Vladimir Lenin
Stalingrad