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AP World History
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1. 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)
Buddha
Leonardo da Vinci
Hundred Years War
Hammurabi
2. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.
Democracy
vassal
Leonid Brezhnev
Investiture
3. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.
Ming
Bartolomeu Dias
Janissaries
Crusades
4. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
House of Burgesses
Sufi
Mecca
1929
5. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.
Simon Bolivar
Neo-Assyrians
Tang Empire
Aristotle
6. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
Zaibatsu
1991
1756
1533
7. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
Movable type
Concordat
1910
Emilio Aguinaldo
8. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Cyrus
Henry the Navigator
Ming
Agricultural Revolution
9. 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.
Zhou
Pancho Villa
Scientific Revolution
Ramesses II
10. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Crusades
Guilds
Francisco Franco
Constantine
11. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name
Kievan Russia
Cyrus II
476 CE
1863
12. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.
Berlin Conference
Legalism
Mita
Delian League
13. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Asoka
Scramble for Africa
1776
WTO
14. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.
Philosophes
3000s BCE
Francisco Franco
Getulio Vargas
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
Movable type
Teotihuacan
Otto von Bismarck
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
16. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI
Tennis Court Oath
Pax Mongolica
Scholasticism
6th century BCE
17. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.
Gupta Empire
Pax Romana
Monotheism
Pearl Harbor
18. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
1810s
Concordat
Vladimir Lenin
Reconquista
19. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Third World
323 BCE
Crystal Palace
Constitutional Convention
20. Date: independence & partition of India
Estates General
Indian Ocean
1947
Maximillien Robespierre
21. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.
Champa Rice
Proxy wars
1492
Ethiopia
22. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
Weimar Republic
Ottomans
Steel
Mulatto
23. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
Printing press
Kepler
Nuclear nonproliferation
1954
24. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
Iroquois Confederacy
Qing Empire
Auschwitz
Nubians
25. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred
Winston Churchill
Gujarat
Solon
1899
26. 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.
Estates General
Tenochtitlan
Bengal
NATO
27. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Umayyad Caliphate
Moksha
Gamal Abdel Nasser
hadith
28. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.
Carthage
Huns
Hanseatic League
Monotheism
29. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
Buddha
Western Front
Fourteen Points
Korean War
30. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Shinto
Buddhism
Tenochtitlan
Ghana
31. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Papyrus
Treaty of Versailles
Sun Yat-Sen
Neo-Assyrians
32. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
Carthage
5th century BCE
Agricultural Revolution
Berlin Conference
33. 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.
Sikhism
African National Congress
Confucius
Jainism
34. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Mohenjo-Daro
Uigurs
Zhou dynasty
Punic Wars
35. Date: end of WWII
Concordat
Zimmerman telegram
Zhou
1945
36. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Samurai
Afrikaners
Neocolonialism
Enlightenment
37. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Janissaries
Apostle Paul
Bourgeoisie
Treaty Ports
38. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Macedonia
Tenochtitlan
Daoism
Ulama
39. 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.
Abolition
Humanism
loess
Cossaks
40. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Movable type
1607
New Imperialism
Hernan Cortes
41. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Protestant Reformation
Mass production
Satrapy
Serbia
42. 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.
1066 CE
Scramble for Africa
Iconoclast
Fransisco Pizarro
43. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.
1948
Serbia
Mauryan Empire
Battle of Midway
44. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
pictograms
Nirvana
Sigmund Freud
Qin
45. 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.
Consul
Manchuria
Mandate of Heaven
Chinampas
46. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Swahili
Puranas
Caravel
Champa Rice
47. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Mentuhotep I
1789
Vasco da Gama
Keiretsu
48. 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
Khubilai Khan
Tribute system
Revolutions of 1848
Mali
49. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Indulgence
Railroads
Ramesses II
Philip II
50. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
Maya
Botany Bay
Balance of power
Italian Renaissance