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AP World History
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1. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Polis
Herodotus
Guomindang
Constitutionalism
2. 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.
1949
Printing press
1885
Sepoy
3. 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
Girondins
liberalism
Guomindang
hadith
4. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Mita
Colonialism
Proxy war
cuneiform
5. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
Investiture
Plebeians
Uigurs
Nation-State
6. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Scramble for Africa
Samurai
Daoism
Fascism
7. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Darius I
Republic
Manchus
Sokoto Caliphate
8. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Francisco Franco
Taiping Rebellion
Comfort girls
Delhi
9. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
Taiping Rebellion
Aristotle
Separate Spheres
National Assembly
10. 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.
James Watt
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
6th century BCE
Dalai Lama
11. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Nomad
Aqueduct
cuneiform
Marie Curie
12. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Warring States Period
James Watt
Steel
Mandate of Heaven
13. 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.
House of Burgesses
Twelve Tables
2001
Tribune
14. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
1324 CE
Capitalism
Mughal Empire
Confucianism
15. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Siberia
King Charles I
1789
Sepoy
16. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Beijing
The Mahdi
Umma
Silk Road
17. The most important work of Indian sacred literature - a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.
Bhagavad-Gita
1588
Constantinople
Revolutions of 1848
18. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Concordat
Simon Bolivar
NATO
19. The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region.
Chavin
Delian League
Karl Marx
10000 BCE
20. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Huguenot
Cultural imperialism
Romanization
liberalism
21. 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
Qin
Economic sanctions
Safavid Empire
22. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
1994
Ulama
Repartimiento
Christopher Columbus
23. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
1947
Berlin Blockade
Submarine telegraph cables
Emilano Zapata
24. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Constitutional Convention
Sun Yat-sen
Diffusion
1949
25. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
1066 CE
Malay
Akbar
All-India Muslim League
26. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.
Octavian
1947
Swahili
Mohenjo-Daro
27. 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.
Pax Romana
Gunpowder
Suez Canal
Salvador Allende
28. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
Great Western Schism
Battle of Midway
Tamil Kingdoms
Civilian Conservation Corps
29. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Ming
Punic Wars
2001
Hammurabi
30. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
Guomindang
Mentuhotep I
1911
Centuries
31. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.
Bolsheviks
Sun Yat-Sen
Roman Principate
Huguenot
32. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Panama Canal
Juan Peron
Macartney Mission
Abbasid Dynasty
33. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
1979
1947
Mongol Empire
Jesuits
34. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
1071 CE
Socialists
Agricultural Revolution
Khmer Empire
35. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Aristotle
Swahili
Copernicus
Congress of Vienna
36. 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.
Grand Canal
Young Turks
Kepler
French Revolution
37. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Enlightenment
Diaspora
Tang Revival
Nubians
38. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.
Cambyses II
Delhi Sultanate
Triumvirate
Bengal
39. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Cyrus
Gunpowder
Sumerians
40. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Bourgeoisie
ethnic cleansing
Battle of Midway
Macartney Mission
41. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.
Serf
Samurai
1947
Akbar
42. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)
Muslim
Conquistadors
1492
Zimmerman telegram
43. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Code of Hammurabi
Alexander the Great
Bartolome de Las Casas
32 CE
44. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Neocolonialism
1571
The Golden Triangle
Victorian Age
45. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Third World
Chiang Kai-Shek
Jamestown
Collectivization
46. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.
Satrapy
Industrial Revolution
Daoism
Paterfamilias
47. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Shi Huangdi
Electricity
Tributary system
United Nations
48. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Talmud
ethnic cleansing
Guild
Conquistadors
49. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Horse collar
City state
Mughal Empire
Sumer
50. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Khubilai Khan
Song Dynasty
Mass production
Telegraph