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AP World History
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1. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Nuremberg Trials
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Getulio Vargas
1987
2. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Yellow River
Napoleon
Jesuits
Ottomans
3. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
1987
Nongovernmental Organizations
Diocletian
Plato
4. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Hammurabi
Medieval
Hebrew Bible
5. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches
Plebeians
Macedonia
Protestant Reformation
4th century CE
6. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Mycenae
National Assembly
Emperor Menelik
Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.
Han
Joseph Stalin
Balance of power
Monotheism
8. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.
Simon Bolivar
Epic of Gilgamesh
Emilano Zapata
Philip II
9. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Ulama
Cossaks
Triumvirate
Pax Mongolica
10. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).
1962
Telegraph
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Harappa
11. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Suez Canal
1861
Fresco
Christopher Columbus
12. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.
Ghana
assimilation
Meiji Restoration
Collectivization
13. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
Shi'a
Laissez faire
NATO
Hanseatic League
14. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
1517
Mita
Shang
Roman Senate
15. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Lama
Ayatollah Khomeini
Papacy
Joesph Stalin
16. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Panama Canal
Israel
Caravel
Czar
17. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Mita
Manumission
1956
Imperialism
18. Date: Korean War starts
1571
1950
Hundred Years War
Balance of power
19. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
Emilano Zapata
Humanism
Crystal Palace
Maximillien Robespierre
20. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Jainism
Pearl Harbor
Columbian Exchange
1939
21. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.
Carthage
Mandate of Heaven
Lusitania
Mass production
22. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
2001
Guild
Enlightenment
Caliphate
23. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
Shi Huangdi
Huns
Hieroglyphics
Weimar Republic
24. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
Diocletian
Divination
Dirty War
Medina
25. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
1756
Constitutional Convention
Stoicism
Yurt
26. 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)
Great Western Schism
Ziggurat
Abbasid Dynasty
1967
27. 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
Samurai
Caesar Augustus
Aztecs
28. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Mahabharata
Apostle Paul
1324 CE
Solidarity
29. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).
Nongovernmental Organizations
NATO
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Mahabharata
30. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Abolition
Ulama
Joseph Stalin
Pilgrims
31. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
1271-1295 CE
Yurt
Grand Canal
Joseph Stalin
32. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
Monophysites
All-India Muslim League
Mahabharata
Panama Canal
33. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Macedonia
Solomon's Temple
Alexandria
Henry the Navigator
34. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
Opium Wars
Telegraph
Laissez faire
Napoleon
35. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).
Minoans
Umayyad Caliphate
Karl Marx
Pax Romana
36. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
Driver
St. Augustine
Mali
Peloponnesian War
37. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
1066 CE
Pax Romana
Bourgeoisie
Abolition
38. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.
Delhi Sulatanate
Nubians
Mughal Empire
Julius Caesar
39. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Scramble for Africa
Ferdinand Magellan
Golden Horde
Beijing
40. 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.
Manumission
Forbidden City
Crystal Palace
Zaibatsu
41. 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.
Plato
Sudetenland
Monotheism
Guomindang
42. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Fourteen Points
Franklin D. Roosevelt
ideograms
1618
43. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Dutch West India Company
Delhi
Grand Canal
221 BCE
44. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Holocaust
Ibn Khaldun
Divination
45. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
Nirvana
Perestroika
Fresco
Steam engine
46. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
Abbasid Caliphate
Byzantine Empire
1815
Pax Romana
47. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Chavin
John F. Kennedy
Centuries
Hydrogen bomb
48. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
Ghana
Perestroika
1071 CE
Benito Mussolini
49. Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor - but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.
Yuan Empire
Hadith
Muhammad Ali
Paleolithic
50. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Divine Right of Kings
Memphis
Vedas
Warring States Period