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AP World History
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1. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.
Black Death
Agora
Nation-State
Albert Einstein
2. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
Taiping Rebellion
Capitalism
Zulu
1857
3. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.
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4. 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
Stone Age
Manchuria
Socrates
Extraterritoriality
5. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)
Balance of power
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Swahili
Cecil Rhodes
6. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Cotton
Caravel
1488
Colombian Exchange
7. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
Henry the Navigator
Emilano Zapata
Colonialism
Nirvana
8. 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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Keiretsu
632 CE
32 CE
9. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)
2001
Code of Hammurabi
Mestizo
Shamanism
10. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Consul
Mass production
Mercantilism
Humanists
11. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Cossaks
Safavid Persia
Hellenistic
1931
12. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)
1885
Aztecs
Roman Principate
Nomad
13. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an
Stoicism
Zhou Dynasty
Indentured servitude
Bartolome de Las Casas
14. 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.
Theravada Buddhism
Serf
1588
Iroquois Confederacy
15. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt
1347 CE
Creoles
Alexander the Great
Cambyses II
16. Date: independence & partition of India
1947
Paleolithic
Assimilation
Agricultural Revolution
17. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
Colonialism
Delhi
Hittites
Timur
18. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
323 BCE
Mentuhotep I
Ulama
Adolf Hitler
19. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Mamluks
Charles de Gaulle
Silk Road
Stoicism
20. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Leonardo da Vinci
Herodotus
Thomas Malthus
Ptolemy
21. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Pilgrimage
Leonardo da Vinci
Chinampas
1857
22. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.
Qin
Habsburg
Albert Einstein
Fresco
23. 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
Hellenistic Age
Extraterritoriality
Telegraph
Solomon's Temple
24. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.
Muslim
Nuclear nonproliferation
1607
New Imperialism
25. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Porfirio Díaz
Young Turks
Hellenistic
Concordat
26. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.
Holocaust
Yurt
1689
Great Western Schism
27. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.
Eva Peron
Dalai Lama
Capitalism
Zen
28. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Shi Huangdi
1607
Gunpowder
Christopher Columbus
29. 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).
Treaty of Versailles
Karl Marx
Thomas Edison
Sub-Saharan Africa
30. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
1607
Charles de Gaulle
1815
Third World
31. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)
527 CE
Adolf Hitler
Kamikaze
Hittites
32. The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia - where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community.
Umma
1987
Ptolemy
Hellenistic
33. 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.
Theodosius
Moksha
1756
Christopher Columbus
34. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.
Separate Spheres
Varna
Iroquois Confederacy
King Leopold II King of Belgium
35. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.
Islam
Ottomans
Benjamin Franklin
WTO
36. 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.
Sikhism
1935
Muslim
Gulag
37. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
1533
John F. Kennedy
Steppes
Korean War
38. 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.
Diaspora
Reconquista
Inca
House of Burgesses
39. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
Indulgences
1931
Porfirio Díaz
Gold Coast
40. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
Khubilai Khan
Constitutionalism
Leonardo da Vinci
1939
41. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.
Diaspora
Warsaw Pact
New Imperialism
Tao-te Ching
42. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Confucianism
Medieval
Plato
Zoroastrianism
43. 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
5th century BCE
Vasco da Gama
Scramble for Africa
44. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t
Shah Abbas I
Opium Wars
ethnic cleansing
hadith
45. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
Persian Wars
Separate Spheres
Cossaks
Iron curtain
46. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.
Octavian
French Revolution
deforestation
Zionism
47. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
1914-1918
1962
Tamil Kingdoms
OPEC
48. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
Max Planck
Liu Bang
Qing Empire
Fertile Crescent
49. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Balance of power
Suez Canal
Timur
Hellenistic Age
50. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
The Mahdi
Cold War
Napoleon Bonaparte
Sikhism