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AP World History
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1. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.
Code of Hammurabi
Roman Republic
cuneiform
Roman Senate
2. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.
Cyrus II
Proxy wars
Sandinistas
Movable type
3. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Mesopotamia
Macedonia
Christopher Columbus
Mecca
4. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility
Five Year Plans
Maya
Caste system
Cortes
5. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Code of Hammurabi
Great Circuit
Sandinistas
Guomindang
6. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Ghana
Battle of Midway
Bhagavad-Gita
Malay
7. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Eva Peron
French Revolution
Mahayana Buddhism
Witch-hunt
8. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Tang Revival
Jacobins
Mongols
Thebes
9. Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor - but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Three-field system
United Nations
Muhammad Ali
10. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
Fourteen Points
Carthage
Emilio Aguinaldo
Nuclear nonproliferation
11. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century
333 CE
Railroads
Sufi
Aztecs
12. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
Sigmund Freud
Laissez faire
Monsoon
Karma
13. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan
Mechanization
Persepolis
Mass production
Four Noble Truths
14. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Bhagavad-Gita
Jainism
1433 CE
Patricians
15. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Confucius
Rajputs
Habsburgs
Berlin Blockade
16. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.
Mentuhotep I
Legalism
McCarthyism
Indentured servitude
17. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very
Sepoy
Indulgence
Khipu
Pancho Villa
18. 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.
Auschwitz
Bourgeoisie
Treaty of Versailles
Nikita Khrushchev
19. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Emilano Zapata
Holocaust
Trireme
1950
20. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Humanism
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Maya
Mauryan Empire
21. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach
Tang Revival
Cixi
Gupta Empire
ziggurat
22. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Ibn Battuta
Ulama
Tanakh
Ziggurat
23. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
4th century CE
Guomindang
Siddhartha Gautama
Parthians
24. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
Minoans
Labor union
Hundred Years War
Samurai
25. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
Zheng He
Mahabharata
1271-1295 CE
Driver
26. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Tributary system
Oracle Bones
Atahualpa
Empiricism
27. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Darius I
Tribune
Scholasticism
28. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian
Delhi
1848
Suez Canal
Peloponnesian War
29. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
Karl Marx
Mecca
Leonardo da Vinci
Hellenistic Age
30. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Carthage
Teotihuacan
Siberia
John F. Kennedy
31. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th
Assimilation
Fransisco Pizarro
Scholasticism
Sandinista
32. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Maori
Alexander the Great
Ayatollah Khomeini
Safavid Empire
33. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.
Meiji Restoration
Hinduism
Minoan
32 CE
34. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Divine Right of Kings
Aristotle
Middle Passage
Tang Revival
35. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Industrial Revolution
Pax Mongolica
1071 CE
Agora
36. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)
Emilio Aguinaldo
Darius I
Cambyses II
Thebes
37. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Great Zimbabwe
1853
Sunnis
Atahualpa
38. 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
Sokoto Caliphate
Revolutions of 1848
Zoroaster
Encomienda
39. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Safavid Empire
Nuclear nonproliferation
Charlemagne
Asoka
40. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires
Persia
Umma
Wheel of Life
cuneiform
41. 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
Yongle
Monophysites
Sun Yat-Sen
Helsinki Accords
42. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
Victorian Age
Encomienda
Neocolonialism
Gothic Cathedrals
43. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Electricity
Song Dynasty
Pilgrims
1502
44. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Benito Mussolini
Panama Canal
Safavid Persia
45. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Constantinople
Neolithic
Umayyad Caliphate
Vishnu
46. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Jamestown
Great Zimbabwe
Shang Dynasty
Labor union
47. 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.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Ayatollah Khomeini
Caesar Augustus
Maya
48. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)
Jesus
John Locke
Great Western Schism
Israel
49. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
Ramesses II
Warsaw Pact
1433 CE
Yellow River
50. 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
Sikhism
Persian Wars
Saddam Hussein
Tokugawa Shogunate