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AP World History
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1. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
95 Theses
Rigveda
Democracy
Middle Passage
2. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear
Middle Passage
Trireme
Ibn Khaldun
Armenia
3. 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.
Witchcraft
1607
Enlightenment
Mein Kampf
4. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs
4th century CE
Zhou Dynasty
Tennis Court Oath
Charlemagne
5. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Korean War
Hanseatic League
Crusades
Franz Ferdinand
6. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Zhou dynasty
Syncretism
Socrates
Third World
7. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
Hundred Years War
Jacobins
1607
Minoan
8. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Polis
Huguenot
Steam engine
Socrates
9. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
180 CE
Hadith
Yellow River
10. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism
Hieroglyphics
Warsaw Pact
Vedas
Tang Revival
11. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Sun Yat-sen
United Nations
Labor union
Minoans
12. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
The Mahdi
House of Burgesses
Teotihuacan
Janissary
13. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Neo-Assyrians
Totalitarianism
Capitalism
Twelve Tables
14. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
Daoism
Postmodernism
Ethiopia
Champa Rice
15. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Celts
Nonaligned
Theodosius
Rama
16. Date: Korean War starts
Chavin
1950
Nehru
1919
17. 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.
Daoism
Polis
Neocolonialism
Crusades
18. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.
Gunpowder
Jizya
Memphis
Jainism
19. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
New Imperialism
Mercantilism
1989
Leonardo da Vinci
20. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
1931
Hernan Cortes
Atahualpa
Cossaks
21. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.
Marie Curie
Tribune
Suleiman the Magnificent
Neocolonialism
22. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Samurai
Fresco
Karma
23. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Akbar
Socialists
Richard Arkwright
Maya
24. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Hatshepsut
Alexander the Great
Steppes
Triumvirate
25. 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
Constantinople
Otto von Bismarck
Stone Age
Goths
26. 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.
Christopher Columbus
Revolutions of 1848
Sumer
Joint-stock company
27. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
1947
Getulio Vargas
Safavid Persia
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
28. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Tanakh
Nazism
New Imperialism
Pax Romana
29. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Crusades
Nubians
Mahabharata
Ghana
30. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Mass production
Charlemagne
Ottomans
Oracle Bones
31. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity
Huguenot
Industrial Revolution
Ming
Mauryan Empire
32. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon
Caesar Augustus
Sikhism
Romanization
legalism
33. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Italian Renaissance
Prince Henry The Navigator
Zulu
Girondins
34. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Abbasid Caliphate
Nation-State
Junk
Divine Right of Kings
35. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
Yellow Turban
Silk Road
Industrial Revolution
1979
36. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Patricians
Neolithic
Tiananmen Square
1810s
37. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
Totalitarianism
Copernicus
Vishnu
New Economic Policy
38. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Mein Kampf
Macedonia
deforestation
Prince Henry The Navigator
39. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.
Forbidden City
Kamikaze
All-India Muslim League
Silk Road
40. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach
Mass deportation
Tang Revival
Modernization
Confucianism
41. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety - fulfill vows - or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions - such as the Muslim journey to Mecca.
Papacy
Muhammad
Pilgrimage
Taiping Rebellion
42. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
James Watt
1300 BCE
Qin
Punic Wars
43. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha
Conquistadors
Woodrow Wilson
Siddhartha Gautama
Diaspora
44. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent
Chiefdom
Divine Right of Kings
Hammurabi
Prince Henry The Navigator
45. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
1991
Yurt
Song Dynasty
Safavid Persia
46. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
1991
Joseph Stalin
Alexander the Great
Chavin
47. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
Agora
Zoroastrianism
10000 BCE
Peloponnesian War
48. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Polis
Long March
Capitalism
Constantine
49. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.
Samurai
Philosophes
Fertile Crescent
Trireme
50. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
1600
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Cotton
Goths