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AP World History
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1. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
Western Front
1258 CE
Daoism
Diocletian
2. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.
Pericles
Olmec
Nonaligned
Little Ice Age
3. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
1325 CE
Fidel Castro
Celts
Agricultural Revolution
4. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear
Ulama
Mahayana Buddhism
Armenia
Hittites
5. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
Tiananmen Square
6th century BCE
Vedas
221 BCE
6. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
1683
Tang Empire
Silk Road
Pancho Villa
7. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Hadith
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Mansa Musa
Jesus
8. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Third World
Montezuma II
1683
Ayatollah Khomeini
9. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
European Community
United Nations
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Sumerians
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.
Olmec
1571
Telegraph
The Golden Triangle
11. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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12. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
Napoleon
Silk Road
Fascism
ethnic cleansing
13. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Iconoclast
Martin Luther
1950
Zimmerman telegram
14. 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
Max Planck
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Republic
Comfort girls
15. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Hiroshima
1300 BCE
Sokoto Caliphate
James Watt
16. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Octavian
Congress of Vienna
Cultural Revolution
Hundred Years War
17. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Ibn Battuta
House of Burgesses
Yellow River
Chavin
18. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Charles Darwin
Leonardo da Vinci
Ramesses II
assimilation
19. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Imperialism
Persian Wars
Holocaust
Shah Abbas I
20. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
1521
Glorious Revolution
Mentuhotep I
Hacienda
21. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Han
1804
Copernicus
Mandate of Heaven
22. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.
Ulama
assimilation
Terrorism
Delhi
23. 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.
Pancho Villa
1945
Creoles
Sigmund Freud
24. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.
Caesar Augustus
Mohandas Gandhi
Apostle Paul
Capitalism
25. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
Humanists
Collectivization
Charles Darwin
Mestizo
26. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.
333 CE
Qing Empire
Cottage industry
Simon Bolivar
27. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600
Abbasid Caliphate
Juan Peron
Italian Renaissance
1689
28. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.
Aqueduct
Jizya
Bolshevik
Vasco da Gama
29. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
Hadith
Octavian
Stoicism
Guild
30. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.
Proxy wars
Humanism
Tang Revival
1935
31. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
Karl Marx
Daoism
Diocletian
Olmec
32. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Stock exchange
Perestroika
95 Theses
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
33. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
assimilation
Shinto
Nation-State
Iron curtain
34. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh
Scientific Revolution
Neolithic
Modernization
Buddhism
35. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Trireme
Jenne-Jeno
Nonaligned
Zapata
36. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.
legalism
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Helsinki Accords
Shinto
37. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain
Mestizo
Treaty of Nanking
Beijing
1914-1918
38. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)
Yellow River
deforestation
1588
Montezuma II
39. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
Xia
Golden Horde
Hellenistic Age
Perestroika
40. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Investiture
Lama
Constantine
1956
41. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)
Jainism
1885
Romanization
1492
42. 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.
Qin
Gunpowder
Serf
Hellenistic Age
43. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
1994
Witchcraft
Bartholomew Dias
1871
44. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Witch-hunt
1919
Realpolitik
Zimmerman telegram
45. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people
Catholic Reformation
Mahabharata
Victorian Age
Punic Wars
46. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
1756
1950
Benito Mussolini
Durbar
47. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)
Indian Civil Service
1941
221 BCE
Peloponnesian War
48. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
Caste system
Scholasticism
Bartolomeu Dias
Song Dynasty
49. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Tang Empire
Albert Einstein
Asoka
Punic Wars
50. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.
Gujarat
WTO
Cottage industry
Legalism