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AP World History
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1. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.
Treaty of Versailles
Mestizo
Guomindang
Leonardo da Vinci
2. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Albert Einstein
urbanization
476 CE
loess
3. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Xia
10000 BCE
Vladimir Lenin
Plato
4. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.
Treaty of Versailles
Stone Age
Tang Empire
1962
5. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Cyrus II
95 Theses
1979
Mecca
6. 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
1756
Stoicism
Protestant Reformation
Apostle Paul
7. German leader of the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler
Agricultural Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man
House of Burgesses
8. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu
Shang
House of Burgesses
Plato
Umayyad Caliphate
9. 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
Shi'a
Balance of power
Horse collar
10. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
Roman Republic
Sikhs
Vladimir Lenin
Constantinople
11. Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.
Tennis Court Oath
Joint-stock company
Sahel
Caesar Augustus
12. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Czar
1911
Hadith
Tennis Court Oath
13. 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
Polis
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Copernicus
Steel
14. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Shi'a
Collectivization
Stone Age
1959
15. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Fransisco Pizarro
Abbasid Caliphate
Maori
Mecca
16. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Hanseatic League
1857
Great Circuit
Triumvirate
17. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Octavian
Xia
Puritans
Khubilai Khan
18. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi
Guomindang
Industrial Revolution
1987
Hadith
19. 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.
Iroquois Confederacy
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1935
Zoroaster
20. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.
Deism
Zulu
Vedas
Mycenae
21. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.
Zimmerman telegram
Warring States Period
Pericles
Maximillien Robespierre
22. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Pearl Harbor
Aryans
Benito Mussolini
1789
23. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Daoism
Weimar Republic
Janissary
Marie Curie
24. 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
Golden Horde
Teotihuacan
Diocletian
Black Death
25. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Warsaw Pact
Gupta Empire
Indian Ocean
Colombian Exchange
26. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Pericles
Zaibatsu
Cortes
Shang Dynasty
27. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Sahel
Medieval
Grand Canal
Paleolithic
28. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
House of Burgesses
Columbian Exchange
Darius I
220 CE
29. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.
Hellenistic
Jainism
Pancho Villa
Sun Yat-Sen
30. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha
Sahel
Siddhartha Gautama
Diaspora
Zionism
31. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
Siddhartha Gautama
John Locke
Columbian Exchange
Cottage industry
32. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.
Macedonia
Roman Principate
Fresco
1899
33. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Safavid Empire
ziggurat
Rajputs
Ming
34. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
ideograms
Fresco
Czar
Siberia
35. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
Stoicism
Teotihuacan
Legalism
National Assembly
36. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).
Empress Wu
1919
Timur
Czar
37. 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.
Golden Horde
1776
Creole
Diaspora
38. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Josiah Wedgwood
Isfahan
Labor union
Ethiopia
39. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Habsburg
Comfort girls
Emperor Menelik
Proxy war
40. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Constantine
Olmec
Aristotle
Ayatollah Khomeini
41. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
Ferdinand Magellan
Cixi
Tennis Court Oath
1815
42. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Maori
Mahabharata
Long March
The Golden Triangle
43. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Fascism
Grand Canal
Congress of Vienna
Sikhs
44. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
World Bank
Inca
Muhammad Ali
Roman Principate
45. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Cottage industry
Creole
Josiah Wedgwood
European Community
46. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.
Mahayana Buddhism
Neocolonialism
Jesus
Congress of Vienna
47. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Cold War
Empiricism
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Pilgrims
48. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Caravel
Zoroastrianism
Sun Yat-Sen
Solomon's Temple
49. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.
Tributary system
Ma'at
Emperor Menelik
Simon Bolivar
50. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.
Mandate System
Humanism
1533
Enlightenment