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AP World History
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1. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
Meiji Restoration
Zimmerman telegram
Tang Empire
Estates General
2. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war
Fascism
Tito
Indulgence
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
3. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.
Nuclear nonproliferation
Italian Renaissance
Realpolitik
Max Planck
4. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Khmer Empire
Christopher Columbus
1914-1918
Scientific Revolution
5. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
1954
Hieroglyphics
Realpolitik
32 CE
6. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
Capitalism
Aryans
National Assembly
Apostle Paul
7. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
Driver
Twelve Tables
Encomienda
1914-1918
8. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Ghana
1258 CE
Daoism
Macartney Mission
9. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.
Roman Principate
Hadith
Warsaw Pact
Umma
10. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
Pax Romana
1607
Wheel of Life
Assimilation
11. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.
Ibn Battuta
Jose Morelos
Solon
Cotton
12. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Hellenistic Age
1863
Sanskrit
Constantinople
13. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
Safavid Empire
Babylon
Medieval
Ulama
14. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami
Cotton
Bourgeoisie
Puritans
Sumerians
15. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Silk Road
Ziggurat
Tanakh
Fidel Castro
16. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age
Congress of Vienna
WTO
NATO
Stone Age
17. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility
Pericles
Caste system
Benjamin Franklin
476 CE
18. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Samsara
Asian Tigers
Weimar Republic
Apostle Paul
19. 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.
Prince Henry The Navigator
Fourteen Points
Hinduism
Talmud
20. 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.
Manchus
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Tribune
Manor
21. 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.
Sumerians
Porfirio Díaz
Zhou
Mulatto
22. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Laissez faire
Zoroaster
Memphis
23. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Keiretsu
Realpolitik
Estates General
24. 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
Witchcraft
Benito Mussolini
Teotihuacan
Cyrus II
25. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
Mahabharata
Scientific Revolution
Oracle Bones
Neocolonialism
26. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Maya
Fourteen Points
Zhou Dynasty
1588
27. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Samurai
1967
Gens de couleur
1962
28. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Persepolis
Diaspora
Taiping Rebellion
Apostle Paul
29. 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).
Laissez faire
Constitutional Convention
Pancho Villa
Steppes
30. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Ptolemy
Sanskrit
Manumission
Black Death
31. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.
Plato
Puritans
League of Nations
1919
32. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Faisal
Celts
Umma
Stock exchange
33. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Hammurabi
Proxy war
Bartholomew Dias
Berlin Blockade
34. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
1967
Mauryan Empire
Nubians
Mestizo
35. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.
Deng Xiaoping
Byzantine Empire
Khubilai Khan
Hegemony
36. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
Pilgrims
Romanization
Three-field system
Charlemagne
37. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Monsoon
Civilian Conservation Corps
Maori
Humanism
38. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
333 CE
221 BCE
Centuries
1947
39. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented
Hieroglyphics
Bread and Circuses
Beijing
Bourgeoisie
40. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Vishnu
Yuan Empire
Zaibatsu
1300 BCE
41. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
Sepoy
Tribute system
Manor
Byzantine Empire
42. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Timur
Umma
Theravada Buddhism
Eva Peron
43. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
Yurt
Habsburg
Puranas
Hittites
44. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)
Abbasid Caliphate
Cyrus II
NATO
1588
45. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Terrorism
Juan Peron
Cultural imperialism
Iroquois Confederacy
46. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Dutch West India Company
Pax Mongolica
Weimar Republic
Colombian Exchange
47. 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.
Helsinki Accords
Empress Dowager Cixi
Solidarity
Long March
48. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
New Economic Policy
32 CE
Delhi
Toussaint L'Ouverture
49. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Oracle Bones
Enlightenment
Joesph Stalin
Delhi Sulatanate
50. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Atlantic System
Balance of power
Royal African Company
cuneiform