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AP World History
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1. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
Crystal Palace
Socialists
Zimmerman telegram
Abbasid Dynasty
2. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Tributary system
1885
Marco Polo
Diocletian
3. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
Talmud
Israel
Monsoon
Bourgeoisie
4. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Cyrus
Neo-Assyrians
Nikita Khrushchev
Safavid Persia
5. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)
3000s BCE
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Meiji Restoration
Encomienda
6. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.
Shang Dynasty
10000 BCE
Mita
Guomindang
7. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.
Italian Renaissance
Sokoto Caliphate
Nazism
Malay
8. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Shang Dynasty
Ziggurat
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Benito Mussolini
9. 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.
Nehru
Twelve Tables
Cottage industry
Herodotus
10. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Young Turks
Joseph Stalin
Scientific Revolution
Constantine
11. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Socrates
Theravada Buddhism
Druids
Thomas Edison
12. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Terrorism
Darius I
Constantine
Maximillien Robespierre
13. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
221 BCE
Colonization
deforestation
Meiji Restoration
14. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Hernan Cortes
Witch-hunt
Mestizo
Girondins
15. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Ottomans
Otto von Bismarck
Catholic Reformation
Hammurabi
16. 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.
Ghana
Black Death
Empiricism
Octavian
17. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.
Sun Yat-Sen
Jacobins
Aryans
Protestant Reformation
18. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Empress Wu
Ayatollah Khomeini
Pericles
Abolition
19. 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
1488
Macartney Mission
Mongol Empire
20. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Colonialism
Dar al-Islam
Mercantilism
Caliphate
21. 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
Fertile Crescent
Sun Yat-Sen
2001
loess
22. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
732 CE
Paterfamilias
Realpolitik
1979
23. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Epic of Gilgamesh
Cultural Revolution
Four Noble Truths
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.
Maya
Buddhism
Tanakh
Getulio Vargas
25. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Jizya
Habsburgs
Stock exchange
Huguenot
26. 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.
Fresco
Glorious Revolution
1756
Divination
27. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
Guomindang
Black Death
Balfour Declaration
Botany Bay
28. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.
Sanskrit
Suleiman the Magnificent
Tanakh
1917
29. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the
Diocletian
Indian Civil Service
Hoplite
1949
30. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.
1571
Mandate of Heaven
Jesus
Telegraph
31. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics
Qin
Separate Spheres
Great Circuit
Gens de couleur
32. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
1979
1324 CE
Terrorism
Socialists
33. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
Consul
Keiretsu
Khipu
1994
34. Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture.
Josiah Wedgwood
Jesuits
Totalitarianism
Byzantine Empire
35. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the
Nubians
Apostle Paul
Humanism
Goths
36. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
1914-1918
Trireme
Golden Horde
Thomas Edison
37. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Papacy
Sokoto Caliphate
1931
38. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.
Capitalism
1857
Proxy wars
Theravada Buddhism
39. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
Keiretsu
Steam engine
Capitalism
Aztecs
40. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).
John Locke
Pancho Villa
Maximillien Robespierre
Mao Zedong
41. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
Eva Peron
Kamikaze
Benjamin Franklin
Mass production
42. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Vedas
Asian Tigers
Olmec
Witch-hunt
43. 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
1929
Golden Horde
Paleolithic
44. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Copernicus
Ibn Khaldun
Confucianism
Ramesses II
45. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Junk
Macedonia
Nirvana
Hieroglyphics
46. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
deforestation
180 CE
Democracy
Ma'at
47. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Neo-Assyrians
Colombian Exchange
Jesuits
Cotton
48. 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.
House of Burgesses
Mamluks
New Imperialism
Theodosius
49. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Janissaries
Sikhism
Bourgeoisie
Fertile Crescent
50. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Mahabharata
1071 CE
Shah Abbas I
Aryans