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AP World History
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1. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
Thebes
Mongol Empire
Moksha
Solidarity
2. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Manchus
Mantra
Peloponnesian War
Tiananmen Square
3. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.
1502
Steel
Mentuhotep I
Monotheism
4. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.
Steam engine
Warsaw Pact
Karma
Creole
5. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Agricultural Revolution
Pearl Harbor
Oracle Bones
Tokugawa Shogunate
6. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Italian Renaissance
Stalingrad
Socrates
Four Noble Truths
7. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
Han
Solidarity
Aristotle
1488
8. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Theodosius
Napoleon Bonaparte
Joesph Stalin
League of Nations
9. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Paleolithic
1950
Terrorism
Four Noble Truths
10. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.
Totalitarianism
Diaspora
1853
Guomindang
11. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
Tanakh
Golden Horde
1848
Nirvana
12. 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
Jesuits
1839
Octavian
Mandate System
13. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
Bartholomew Dias
King Charles I
Girondins
1941
14. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
Dalai Lama
Bourgeoisie
Olmec
Guomindang
15. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.
urbanization
Telegraph
1815
Umma
16. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
4th century CE
Balfour Declaration
Apostle Paul
Carthage
17. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing
Laissez Faire
Balfour Declaration
OPEC
18. The central text of Daoism.
Shinto
Kepler
Dharma
Tao-te Ching
19. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
Muscovy
Varna
1948
Capitalism
20. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
1810s
Proxy wars
1935
Joint-stock company
21. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Goths
Porfirio Díaz
Inca
Armenia
22. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Industrial Revolution
New Imperialism
Talmud
Asante
23. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.
Medina
Umma
Chiefdom
Absolutism
24. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.
Investiture
Cultural imperialism
Wheel of Life
Mandate System
25. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hegemony
Nuclear nonproliferation
Hanseatic League
Peloponnesian War
26. 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.
United Nations
cuneiform
Mercantilism
Maya
27. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
Divination
Macartney Mission
Qin
Trireme
28. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Postmodernism
Muhammad
Durbar
Extraterritoriality
29. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Junk
Janapadas
Shogun
Napoleon
30. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.
Byzantine Empire
Solidarity
1571
Epic of Gilgamesh
31. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
Ibn Battuta
Timur
Sigmund Freud
1962
32. 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.
OPEC
Mandate of Heaven
Malay
League of Nations
33. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
1954
Vladimir Lenin
Umma
Cixi
34. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Humanists
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Vladimir Lenin
Columbian Exchange
35. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
1899
Fascist Party
Christopher Columbus
Mandate of Heaven
36. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
1857
Democracy
Industrial Revolution
Scientific Revolution
37. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
Dar al-Islam
Labor union
1054 CE
Hieroglyphics
38. 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.
Hatshepsut
Stone Age
Thebes
Mandate of Heaven
39. 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.
Byzantine Empire
Abbasid Caliphate
Plebeians
Pancho Villa
40. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Constantine
Joesph Stalin
Ziggurat
Thomas Edison
41. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
United Nations
Apostle Paul
Nirvana
Ptolemy
42. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
1571
323 BCE
Stone Age
Augustus
43. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Middle Passage
1054 CE
Agora
Dar al-Islam
44. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).
Mentuhotep I
Karl Marx
Scramble for Africa
Absolutism
45. 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
Holocaust
Franz Ferdinand
Driver
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
46. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Mass production
Memphis
Julius Caesar
Satrapy
47. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)
3000s BCE
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Alexander the Great
Paleolithic
48. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Pax Romana
Dutch West India Company
Zapata
Jacobins
49. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.
Romanization
Sasanid Empire
Zoroastrianism
Sandinistas
50. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Cyrus
Tenochtitlan
Khomeini
Islam