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AP World History
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1. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)
Samsara
Horse collar
Bartolomeu Dias
Sikhs
2. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Four Noble Truths
Pax Romana
1588
Roman Senate
3. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
Ulama
Gens de couleur
Scientific Revolution
5th century BCE
4. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Song Dynasty
Botany Bay
Golden Horde
George Washington
5. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Jizya
Vedas
liberalism
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
6. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
Roman Principate
Berlin Conference
Nomad
Akhenaten
7. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
Mohandas Gandhi
Hanseatic League
Max Planck
Horse collar
8. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Republic
assimilation
Gamal Abdel Nasser
George Washington
9. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
Bengal
ziggurat
1919
1066 CE
10. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil
Muhammad
Iroquois Confederacy
Mohenjo-Daro
Zoroastrianism
11. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Mita
Ibn Khaldun
Philosophes
1979
12. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)
Meiji Restoration
Pax Romana
Philip II
4th century CE
13. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
ideograms
Capitalism
Tang Empire
1898
14. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
1857
Roman Senate
Sudetenland
OPEC
15. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Carthage
World Bank
Habsburgs
Bourgeoisie
16. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
1433 CE
Steel
Steam engine
Ulama
17. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.
Huns
Babylon
Consul
Witch-hunt
18. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).
632 CE
Mao Zedong
Copernicus
Joseph Stalin
19. 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.
Czar
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Cossaks
Sufi
20. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Stock exchange
Hieroglyphics
Khipu
Fransisco Pizarro
21. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
Horse collar
1931
Afrikaners
Paterfamilias
22. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires
Teotihuacan
Persia
Jacobins
1492
23. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.
Black Death
Akbar
Sahel
Joint-stock company
24. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
Treaty of Versailles
Juan Peron
Abbasid Dynasty
Sikhism
25. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.
10000 BCE
Umma
1324 CE
Pearl Harbor
26. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
Postmodernism
legalism
James Watt
League of Nations
27. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Zen
1899
Persepolis
Marco Polo
28. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)
1885
Monasticism
Khipu
Mestizo
29. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
Silk Road
1600
Umma
Swahili
30. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
Guomindang
Humanists
Assimilation
Maori
31. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
House of Burgesses
Hittites
Sepoy Mutiny
Sunnis
32. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America
Kievan Russia
Shinto
Thomas Edison
The Golden Triangle
33. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
Quran
Horse collar
Ottomans
Young Turks
34. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
Napoleonic Wars
Helsinki Accords
Atlantic System
Suez Canal
35. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Napoleon
Papyrus
Holocaust
Ottomans
36. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Shogun
Nuremberg Trials
ziggurat
Ulama
37. System of government in which all 'citizens' (however defined) have equal political and legal rights - privileges - and protections - as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Demographic Transition -A change in th
Tang Revival
Winston Churchill
Democracy
Karma
38. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century
Bantu
Benjamin Franklin
Cortes
Railroads
39. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Deng Xiaoping
Empress Wu
323 BCE
Ibn Battuta
40. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Ptolemy
Vishnu
Janissary
Ulama
41. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
New Imperialism
Adolf Hitler
Cultural imperialism
ideograms
42. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.
Scholasticism
Zhou
Devshirme
Maori
43. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Deng Xiaoping
220 CE
Mahayana Buddhism
urbanization
44. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
1989
Great Circuit
Constantinople
Olmec
45. 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
Industrial Revolution
Ayatollah Khomeini
Beijing
Scientific Revolution
46. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Shang Dynasty
Lama
Khmer Empire
pictograms
47. 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
Revolutions of 1848
Golden Horde
Treaty of Versailles
Napoleon Bonaparte
48. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Twelve Tables
Israel
Nazca
deforestation
49. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Battle of Midway
Joint-stock company
Indian Ocean
Grand Canal
50. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
Qing Empire
Zoroastrianism
Hiroshima
Vedas