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AP World History
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1. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
1618
Hydrogen bomb
City state
Sub-Saharan Africa
2. 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
Jizya
Tang Revival
1347 CE
220 CE
3. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.
Divination
Hoplite
Mughal Empire
Prince Henry The Navigator
4. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Third World
Satrapy
Song Dynasty
Suleiman the Magnificent
5. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top
ziggurat
Electricity
220 CE
Vladimir Lenin
6. 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.
Medina
Roman Senate
Satrapy
1433 CE
7. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Herodotus
Hieroglyphics
Conquistadors
Balance of power
8. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Proxy war
Plebeians
Delhi Sulatanate
1991
9. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Mohandas Gandhi
Legalism
1607
Mycenae
10. 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.
1967
Bhagavad-Gita
Telegraph
United Nations
11. 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
Apostle Paul
Joint-stock company
Stone Age
323 BCE
12. 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.
Fourteen Points
1488
Mauryan Empire
Janissary
13. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
Patricians
Mesopotamia
Bengal
Repartimiento
14. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Adolf Hitler
1987
Hieroglyphics
Royal African Company
15. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Tamil Kingdoms
Hatshepsut
Cuban Missile Crisis
Stone Age
16. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
Assimilation
Mecca
Laissez faire
Cottage industry
17. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Mamluks
1914-1918
Agricultural Revolution
Four Noble Truths
18. Branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Mainly found in Iran and a small part of Iraq. It is the state religion of Iran. A member of this group is called a Shi'ite.
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19. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Pearl Harbor
Agora
Pancho Villa
Hinduism
20. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights
Estates General
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Five Year Plans
Pax Mongolica
21. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Buddha
Umma
Telegraph
Thomas Edison
22. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)
221 BCE
Tokugawa Shogunate
Mechanization
Colonization
23. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Maya
Thomas Malthus
Hadith
Vedas
24. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Constantine
1789
Yongle
Adolf Hitler
25. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Jenne-Jeno
Persepolis
Rama
Olmec
26. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
Indian Civil Service
ziggurat
Muscovy
Nubians
27. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures
loess
Puritans
Akhenaten
Diocletian
28. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Teotihuacan
Imperialism
Ma'at
Fascism
29. 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
1683
Realpolitik
Hoplite
30. 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.
Parthians
Indentured servitude
Opium Wars
333 CE
31. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
Third World
Plebeians
Sandinista
Maya
32. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Centuries
Witch-hunt
Persia
Ziggurat
33. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Guild
Vladimir Lenin
Enconmienda
Berlin Blockade
34. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Empiricism
Cecil Rhodes
Legalism
Delian League
35. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
Glorious Revolution
32 CE
95 Theses
Mohenjo-Daro
36. 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.
Electricity
Industrial Revolution
Meiji Restoration
Theodosius
37. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Ibn Khaldun
Janapadas
Yellow River
Lusitania
38. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.
Catholic Reformation
cuneiform
1857
Franz Ferdinand
39. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
ideograms
Swahili
Printing press
1962
40. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu
Enlightenment
Minoans
McCarthyism
Shang
41. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
32 CE
Hammurabi
Zoroaster
Pancho Villa
42. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.
Hinduism
Henry the Navigator
Creoles
Muhammad
43. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam
Sufi
Paterfamilias
Stock exchange
Gentry
44. Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.
Steppes
Mansa Musa
Thomas Malthus
Nuclear nonproliferation
45. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
Christopher Columbus
Daoism
Modernization
Benjamin Franklin
46. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice
Hebrew Bible
Jizya
Confucianism
Byzantine Empire
47. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Mein Kampf
Prince Henry The Navigator
Hellenistic
Song Dynasty
48. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Malay
Nubians
Napoleon Bonaparte
Conquistadors
49. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Sikhism
Nongovernmental Organizations
Olmec
50. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Rigveda
5th century BCE
Guomindang
Fertile Crescent