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AP World History
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1. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
1804
Mentuhotep I
Mandate System
Bourgeoisie
2. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
1861
1863
Samurai
Hieroglyphics
3. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Adolf Hitler
Polis
Girondins
Constitutionalism
4. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Neocolonialism
4th century CE
Comfort girls
Electricity
5. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Napoleonic Wars
Stoicism
Balance of power
Indian National Congress
6. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Pearl Harbor
Balfour Declaration
Gujarat
Treaty of Versailles
7. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.
Hatshepsut
Nirvana
Mycenae
Umma
8. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Ma'at
Deism
Polis
Rigveda
9. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
1948
European Community
Sudetenland
Stalingrad
10. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Aryans
Epic of Gilgamesh
French Revolution
Timur
11. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)
1453 CE
Albert Einstein
Delhi Sulatanate
1071 CE
12. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Ghana
Abolition
Imperialism
Olmec
13. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)
Hoplite
Vedas
Mechanization
Christopher Columbus
14. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
Guild
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Indian Ocean
Great Circuit
15. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Terrorism
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Jacobins
Bantu
16. 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.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Caste system
Patricians
Benito Mussolini
17. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
Octavian
Polis
Plebeians
Siddhartha Gautama
18. The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia - where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community.
1898
Safavid Persia
WTO
Umma
19. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Roman Principate
Bartolomeu Dias
Peloponnesian War
20. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice
Sikhism
Sandinistas
Confucianism
Thomas Malthus
21. 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
The Golden Triangle
1618
Christopher Columbus
Pilgrimage
22. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Sunnis
Papyrus
Atahualpa
Juan Peron
23. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Shah Abbas I
1945
Leonardo da Vinci
Glorious Revolution
24. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
United Nations
Sasanid Empire
Nation-State
Manor
25. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)
323 BCE
Holocaust
City state
Shah Abbas I
26. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Middle Passage
Rama
Steel
Timur
27. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Shogun
333 CE
Creole
1959
28. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.
Humanism
Mohenjo-Daro
Manchuria
Fourteen Points
29. 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).
Hittites
Islam
Karl Marx
Witchcraft
30. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Puranas
Acropolis
Eva Peron
Hieroglyphics
31. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.
Tiananmen Square
1947
Twelve Tables
Five Year Plans
32. 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
Girondins
Mentuhotep I
Mestizo
Democracy
33. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
Solon
Humanists
Wheel of Life
1756
34. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
Indulgence
Hellenistic Age
1917
Berlin Blockade
35. 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.
Olmec
pictograms
Zoroastrianism
Tribune
36. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
French Revolution
Sanskrit
1948
Tribune
37. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
Sepoy Mutiny
Tribute system
Caste system
Steppes
38. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.
Umayyad Caliphate
European Community
1911
Vladimir Lenin
39. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.
Trireme
Salvador Allende
Nation-State
Horse collar
40. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Keiretsu
Jamestown
Emperor Menelik
Mercantilism
41. 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.
Jesuits
1945
Printing press
Great Zimbabwe
42. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
Napoleon
Albert Einstein
1789
1066 CE
43. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented
Bread and Circuses
Sigmund Freud
Caesar Augustus
Hieroglyphics
44. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Ottomans
Ulama
Dirty War
Twelve Tables
45. 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
Royal African Company
Zoroastrianism
liberalism
Copernicus
46. 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.
Crystal Palace
Nehru
Gunpowder
Dalai Lama
47. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Economic sanctions
Chiang Kai-Shek
Ibn Battuta
Constitutional Convention
48. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
Estates General
Monotheism
Ethiopia
John Locke
49. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
Persepolis
Malay
1271-1295 CE
Glorious Revolution
50. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
1989
1054 CE
Botany Bay
Deism