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AP World History
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1. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
1959
Macedonia
Roman Republic
Yellow Turban
2. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th
Muscovy
Paleolithic
Tao-te Ching
180 CE
3. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Dharma
Black Death
Israel
Minoan
4. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Sahel
Ottomans
Montezuma II
Aztecs
5. 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.
Rama
Legalism
Laissez Faire
Hieroglyphics
6. 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
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Roman Senate
Treaty of Nanking
Punic Wars
7. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)
Mansa Musa
Great Western Schism
Gentry
Minoans
8. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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9. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Zionism
Vishnu
Mein Kampf
Neolithic
10. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Atahualpa
Theravada Buddhism
Champa Rice
Manchus
11. 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.
Divination
Roman Senate
1517
527 CE
12. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
1948
Taiping Rebellion
Driver
Habsburg
13. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.
Nomad
Fransisco Pizarro
NATO
Five Year Plans
14. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
1991
1324 CE
Horse collar
Gunpowder
15. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
Driver
Sahel
Constantine
Abbasid Dynasty
16. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.
Bolshevik
1959
Dharma
Treaty of Nanking
17. 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
Humanism
African National Congress
Shinto
18. 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
4th century CE
1271-1295 CE
Porfirio Díaz
19. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Acropolis
1324 CE
Postmodernism
Balance of Power
20. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)
Monasticism
1325 CE
1991
Glorious Revolution
21. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Sunnis
Carthage
Stalingrad
Tributary system
22. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
Mita
Israel
Royal African Company
Janissary
23. Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste - and Akbar I married a Rajput princess.
Romanization
Rajputs
deforestation
Neo-Assyrians
24. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.
Crystal Palace
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Perestroika
Getulio Vargas
25. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Shang
Mandate of Heaven
Ming
Samsara
26. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.
Holocaust
Gulag
Warsaw Pact
1502
27. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
Siddhartha Gautama
Cortes
Treaty of Nanking
Hellenistic Age
28. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Empiricism
Xia
Jacobins
Bourgeoisie
29. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
Muslim
1804
French Revolution
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
30. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
Postmodernism
Pilgrims
Labor union
Yuan Empire
31. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)
Jacobins
Cultural Revolution
Apostle Paul
3000s BCE
32. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities
Zoroaster
Battle of Midway
Afrikaners
Delian League
33. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Buddha
Getulio Vargas
Karma
Tang Revival
34. The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region.
Manchus
Persia
Chavin
Artha-sastra
35. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
Hatshepsut
Hoplite
Habsburgs
Auschwitz
36. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Dalai Lama
Stone Age
Columbian Exchange
Sahel
37. 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.
Nubians
Mohandas Gandhi
Ibn Khaldun
Akhenaten
38. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
Yellow Turban
Empiricism
Dutch West India Company
Gens de couleur
39. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs
Cultural imperialism
Silk Road
Zhou Dynasty
Scientific Revolution
40. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu
Semitic
Bolshevik
Hoplite
Gens de couleur
41. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hanseatic League
Meiji Restoration
Czar
Stock exchange
42. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Beijing
Hittites
Consul
Caliphate
43. 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)
Babylon
Mughal Empire
Stalingrad
Modernization
44. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Philosophes
Hoplite
Centuries
Junk
45. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Keiretsu
Gulag
urbanization
World Bank
46. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Mycenae
League of Nations
Karl Marx
Great Circuit
47. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1898
1861
1853
Monasticism
48. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
Iron curtain
Socrates
Sigmund Freud
Horse collar
49. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.
Roman Republic
Maximillien Robespierre
Umayyad Caliphate
Encomienda
50. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
Diaspora
3000s BCE
Railroads
Hieroglyphics