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AP World History
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1. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty
Nazca
Roman Senate
Martin Luther
Qin
2. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Samurai
Umma
Mohenjo-Daro
Columbian Exchange
3. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Stoicism
League of Nations
Ayatollah Khomeini
Montezuma II
4. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Fourteen Points
Shang
Five Year Plans
Railroads
5. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Chinampas
Khomeini
Triumvirate
Teotihuacan
6. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.
Khmer Empire
Serbia
Joseph Stalin
Jesus
7. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Kepler
Caliphate
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Berlin Blockade
8. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
6th century BCE
Durbar
Movable type
Peloponnesian War
9. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.
Sanskrit
cuneiform
Babylon
180 CE
10. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.
180 CE
Congress of Vienna
Satrapy
Helsinki Accords
11. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice
1815
Confucianism
Cyrus II
Jose Morelos
12. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
Humanists
Sikhism
Nazism
Constantine
13. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Woodrow Wilson
Manumission
Forbidden City
Alexander the Great
14. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Ibn Battuta
Cossaks
Ferdinand Magellan
Buddhism
15. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Teotihuacan
Stoicism
Asian Tigers
Laissez Faire
16. The English monarch who was beheaded by Puritans (see English Civil War) who then established their own short-lived government ruled by Oliver Cromwell (Mid 1600s).
Mandate System
Huguenot
1300 BCE
King Charles I
17. 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.
Deism
Divination
221 BCE
Dharma
18. 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.
Zionism
Rajputs
Habsburgs
John Locke
19. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga
Sunnis
Revolutions of 1848
Inca
Yellow River
20. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
Meiji Restoration
Warring States Period
Ulama
Mongols
21. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Enlightenment
Proxy war
Vedas
Mongols
22. 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.
Pancho Villa
Theravada Buddhism
333 CE
Julius Caesar
23. 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.
Umma
Delhi Sultanate
Umayyad Caliphate
Maximillien Robespierre
24. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Suez Canal
Economic sanctions
Realpolitik
Bartolome de Las Casas
25. 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.
Collectivization
New Imperialism
Columbian Exchange
Ulama
26. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Tamil Kingdoms
Scholasticism
Creoles
1899
27. 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.
Fresco
Goths
Simon Bolivar
Timur
28. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Scramble for Africa
Fascist Party
Constantine
1756
29. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
Ming
Hellenistic Age
Safavid Empire
1258 CE
30. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Eva Peron
Theodosius
Berlin Conference
Young Turks
31. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Proxy war
Lusitania
Diffusion
Berlin Blockade
32. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Gujarat
Shi Huangdi
Constantinople
Zimmerman telegram
33. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Jacobins
Cuban Missile Crisis
Satrapy
Vasco da Gama
34. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Sun Yat-sen
Panama Canal
House of Burgesses
35. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Laissez Faire
1804
Chiefdom
Balance of Power
36. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Faisal
Driver
Holocaust
Stalingrad
37. 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
liberalism
Diffusion
Richard Arkwright
38. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
City state
Mestizo
Chiefdom
Shi'a
39. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Comfort girls
Girondins
Maori
Aryans
40. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Civilian Conservation Corps
Estates General
Mass production
Indentured servitude
41. 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
Zionism
Forbidden City
Balfour Declaration
42. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)
Keiretsu
Emilio Aguinaldo
Pilgrimage
1776
43. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Constantine
Mass deportation
Qin
Prince Henry The Navigator
44. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
Printing press
Mecca
cuneiform
Jizya
45. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)
Young Turks
1910
Thebes
2001
46. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
Gens de couleur
Triumvirate
1848
Franklin D. Roosevelt
47. 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
Buddhism
Monotheism
Reconquista
Nation-State
48. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
Encomienda
Charlemagne
Silk Road
Medina
49. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Sandinista
Hiroshima
Balfour Declaration
Stock exchange
50. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Triumvirate
Proxy war
New Economic Policy
Parthians