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AP World History
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1. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Mycenae
Franz Ferdinand
1853
Toussaint L'Ouverture
2. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)
Monasticism
Alexander the Great
Treaty of Versailles
Declaration of the Rights of Man
3. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.
Socrates
St. Augustine
1857
Three-field system
4. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.
Great Western Schism
Pericles
Plato
Nuremberg Trials
5. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.
Congress of Vienna
Iroquois Confederacy
Macedonia
Great Zimbabwe
6. Date: Stock Market Crash
Muhammad Ali
Sigmund Freud
1929
Gujarat
7. 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.
Mass production
Olmec
Scientific Revolution
Colonization
8. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.
Punic Wars
Balance of power
Treaty Ports
Pancho Villa
9. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
ziggurat
Empress Wu
Christopher Columbus
Octavian
10. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.
Serf
Hebrew Bible
Indian Civil Service
1347 CE
11. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Nazca
Hadith
Siddhartha Gautama
Moksha
12. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Constantine
Investiture
Constantine
ethnic cleansing
13. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Nuclear nonproliferation
Scientific Revolution
Joseph Stalin
Hydrogen bomb
14. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)
Vishnu
527 CE
Treaty Ports
Yongle
15. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Macartney Mission
Vasco da Gama
Stone Age
Devshirme
16. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
1618
Hoplite
1898
Zoroaster
17. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
Cortes
Zionism
Paterfamilias
Labor union
18. Date: 9/11 Attacks
Rigveda
Warsaw Pact
Laissez Faire
2001
19. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Mahabharata
Four Noble Truths
Winston Churchill
Punic Wars
20. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Separate Spheres
Solomon's Temple
Jenne-jeno
George Washington
21. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Papyrus
Fransisco Pizarro
Shogun
22. 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
Darius I
loess
Legalism
333 CE
23. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Colonization
Korean War
Deng Xiaoping
24. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
Colonialism
Reconquista
Darius I
St. Augustine
25. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.
Jose Morelos
Israel
Centuries
Stalingrad
26. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.
Puranas
Thebes
assimilation
Mohenjo-Daro
27. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.
Creole
Dalai Lama
Legalism
Vladimir Lenin
28. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Manchuria
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Monotheism
Nasir al-Din Tusi
29. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.
Hieroglyphics
Aqueduct
Ming
OPEC
30. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Constantine
Printing press
Colonialism
Francisco Franco
31. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)
Benito Mussolini
Maori
1324 CE
1433 CE
32. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Ziggurat
Hammurabi
Printing press
Sahel
33. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Treaty of Versailles
Cuban Missile Crisis
Holy Roman Empire
Atahualpa
34. 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.
Maya
Scholasticism
Empiricism
French Revolution
35. 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
Sumerians
Peloponnesian War
95 Theses
Hieroglyphics
36. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
221 BCE
Bartolome de Las Casas
Joint-stock company
Papyrus
37. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
Dar al-Islam
Jamestown
Steppes
Martin Luther
38. The founder of Buddhism
1789
Siddhartha Gautama
Labor union
Persian Wars
39. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
1967
Manor
Consul
Akhenaten
40. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)
Jesuits
1492
Deism
Indulgences
41. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Columbian Exchange
Patricians
Congress of Vienna
Teotihuacan
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.
Constantine
Gothic Cathedrals
hadith
Weimar Republic
43. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Xia
John Locke
Devshirme
1300 BCE
44. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Dharma
Oracle Bones
Helsinki Accords
Neocolonialism
45. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Akhenaten
John F. Kennedy
Romanization
Mecca
46. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
St. Augustine
Pericles
Gupta Empire
Iron curtain
47. 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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48. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Fascist Party
Helsinki Accords
Jizya
United Nations
49. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.
Henry the Navigator
Auschwitz
Modernization
Mohandas Gandhi
50. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.
Indulgence
Mikhail Gorbachev
Postmodernism
Berlin Conference