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AP World History
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1. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.
Minoan
Mali
Fascism
Centuries
2. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
1258 CE
1979
ethnic cleansing
Pax Romana
3. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Jenne-jeno
assimilation
Guomindang
George Washington
4. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.
Ma'at
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Investiture
Yurt
5. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Hieroglyphics
Albert Einstein
Colombian Exchange
Thomas Edison
6. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
Stock exchange
Rama
1994
Umayyad Caliphate
7. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Sikhs
Papacy
Roman Senate
Zen
8. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
legalism
Juan Peron
Nonaligned
1271-1295 CE
9. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Mantra
Mecca
Sahel
deforestation
10. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Reconquista
Neolithic
95 Theses
Zheng He
11. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Umayyad Caliphate
Suez Canal
Swahili
Fascist Party
12. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
Submarine telegraph cables
Printing press
1789
13. Date: independence & partition of India
1947
African National Congress
Sigmund Freud
Emilio Aguinaldo
14. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Concordat
Charles Darwin
Driver
Habsburg
15. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.
Laissez Faire
Crusades
Jacobins
Fascist Party
16. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Fertile Crescent
Cecil Rhodes
Zen
Perestroika
17. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
Druids
Babylonian Empire
hadith
African National Congress
18. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Aryans
OPEC
Yin and yang
Wheel of Life
19. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
333 CE
urbanization
Hammurabi
Hernan Cortes
20. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Ghana
Great Western Schism
Hiroshima
333 CE
21. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Charles Darwin
Korean War
632 CE
22. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Habsburgs
Pearl Harbor
Artha-sastra
Bengal
23. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Sigmund Freud
Diaspora
Agricultural Revolution
Martin Luther
24. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).
Caliphate
Realpolitik
Bolshevik
Confucius
25. 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
Mahayana Buddhism
Ethiopia
Holocaust
26. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Jesuits
Cold War
1488
Treaty of Versailles
27. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.
Gens de couleur
Kepler
cuneiform
Francisco Franco
28. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Carthage
Asian Tigers
Adolf Hitler
Muslim
29. The founder of Buddhism
Ethiopia
Western Front
Siddhartha Gautama
Chiefdom
30. 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
Perestroika
Josiah Wedgwood
Constitutionalism
Shang
31. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
Benito Mussolini
Charlemagne
Kievan Russia
Benjamin Franklin
32. 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
Mita
Hundred Years War
Revolutions of 1848
33. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
1848
1810s
Indian National Congress
Crystal Palace
34. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
Janissary
Eva Peron
1911
1962
35. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
Sunnis
Guild
Electricity
Paleolithic
36. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
Janissary
NATO
Minoans
Caesar Augustus
37. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
1776
Tamil Kingdoms
1300 BCE
Alexandria
38. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
1095 CE
Theravada Buddhism
ziggurat
Colonialism
39. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe
liberalism
Porfirio Díaz
Sandinista
1054 CE
40. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Centuries
Deng Xiaoping
Mali
Repartimiento
41. 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
Extraterritoriality
Young Turks
Tiananmen Square
Telegraph
42. 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
Charles Darwin
Sumerians
Otto von Bismarck
Max Planck
43. 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.
Babylonian Empire
Jesus
Charles Darwin
221 BCE
44. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Holocaust
Tang Empire
Apostle Paul
Cyrus
45. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
Joint-stock company
476 CE
1488
Little Ice Age
46. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.
Hanseatic League
Telegraph
1919
Indian Ocean
47. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Samurai
Guild
All-India Muslim League
Timur
48. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.
Guomindang
Scientific Revolution
Treaty Ports
Daoism
49. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.
Zulu
Ulama
Stock exchange
Gentry
50. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Vishnu
Columbian Exchange
Augustus
Zoroastrianism