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AP World History
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1. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Scramble for Africa
1689
Vladimir Lenin
4th century CE
2. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US
Stalingrad
Italian Renaissance
Cotton
Ibn Battuta
3. Date: French Revolution begins
Muslim
Ghana
1789
632 CE
4. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
Jesuits
Chiang Kai-Shek
1914-1918
Mita
5. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
Gupta Empire
Druids
Babylon
Iron curtain
6. 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.
1898
Christopher Columbus
1815
Economic sanctions
7. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
OPEC
1517
Emilano Zapata
1607
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.
Ming
Caravel
Punic Wars
1987
9. 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.
Winston Churchill
Jacobins
Victorian Age
New Imperialism
10. 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
1885
Pericles
Italian Renaissance
Jesuits
11. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Dirty War
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Ramesses II
Sunnis
12. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Pancho Villa
Druids
Babylon
Cyrus
13. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520
Ming
Delhi Sultanate
Eva Peron
Ethiopia
14. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Beijing
Maya
1905
1848
15. 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
Safavid Persia
Pancho Villa
Buddha
16. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
Isfahan
Mali
1941
cuneiform
17. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
Jenne-Jeno
Botany Bay
Bantu
Hatshepsut
18. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
180 CE
Samurai
1517
19. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Scramble for Africa
Khomeini
Medieval
Joseph Stalin
20. 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)
Napoleonic Wars
Cecil Rhodes
Neolithic
Sanskrit
21. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).
Czar
Tanzimat
Yellow River
Enlightenment
22. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
323 BCE
Islam
Asoka
Centuries
23. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Ethiopia
Neo-Assyrians
Encomienda
Balance of power
24. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
Cortes
Stoicism
Crusades
Aristotle
25. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Gold Coast
Humanism
Satrapy
Ming
26. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil
Timur
Zoroastrianism
Colombian Exchange
Muscovy
27. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Franz Ferdinand
Huguenot
Epic of Gilgamesh
Nazca
28. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Tito
Constitutionalism
1899
Chiang Kai-Shek
29. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Syncretism
Little Ice Age
Congress of Vienna
Hanseatic League
30. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.
Pancho Villa
Triumvirate
Steel
African National Congress
31. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
2001
1967
Nikita Khrushchev
Scientific Revolution
32. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Guomindang
1839
Silk Road
Concordat
33. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
ideograms
Montezuma II
Medina
Ziggurat
34. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Habsburgs
Beijing
Five Year Plans
Fransisco Pizarro
35. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.
Albert Einstein
Zoroaster
Zionism
Qin
36. 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)
Shamanism
Bread and Circuses
Mongol Empire
Dar al-Islam
37. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Zheng He
Twelve Tables
Shah Abbas I
Creole
38. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Consul
Printing press
Witchcraft
Marie Curie
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.
Martin Luther
Golden Horde
333 CE
Tang Empire
40. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Mycenae
Solidarity
Cultural imperialism
Shi Huangdi
41. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo
Fresco
Bartolome de Las Casas
Young Turks
Estates General
42. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Zoroastrianism
Hammurabi
95 Theses
Habsburg
43. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
1815
Hadith
1949
Roman Republic
44. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Paleolithic
Aborigine
Neolithic
Warring States Period
45. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Janissaries
Gujarat
Ming
Jacobins
46. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Steam engine
476 CE
Realpolitik
Umma
47. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
1950
Guild
1433 CE
Hellenistic
48. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Fourteen Points
Theravada Buddhism
Bhagavad-Gita
Cecil Rhodes
49. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
Assimilation
Romanization
Satrapy
Hundred Years War
50. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Bourgeoisie
Tanakh
Mestizo
Faisal