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AP World History
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1. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
Ziggurat
Harappa
Zaibatsu
WTO
2. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
1885
632 CE
1492
1967
3. 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.
Roman Senate
Revolutions of 1848
Sumer
Emilio Aguinaldo
4. 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.
Sikhs
European Community
Auschwitz
1945
5. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
Caravel
Jenne-jeno
Henry the Navigator
1853
6. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)
Paleolithic
Fransisco Pizarro
Great Western Schism
Joint-stock company
7. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
Zapata
Prince Henry The Navigator
Tang Empire
Assimilation
8. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Auschwitz
Five Year Plans
Marco Polo
Quran
9. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Holocaust
Asoka
Oracle Bones
Umayyad Caliphate
10. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Driver
Polis
Varna
Zimmerman telegram
11. 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.
John Locke
Neocolonialism
Movable type
Nation-State
12. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Delhi Sulatanate
Franz Ferdinand
Christopher Columbus
Roman Principate
13. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Iroquois Confederacy
Agricultural Revolution
Columbian Exchange
Solon
14. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Centuries
10000 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama
Apostle Paul
15. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Investiture
Sumerians
Daoism
Balance of Power
16. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)
Hittites
Cecil Rhodes
1987
Akbar
17. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Congress of Vienna
Siddhartha Gautama
Colonization
Cyrus
18. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Olmec
Punic Wars
Conquistadors
19. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Perestroika
Cortes
New Economic Policy
Buddha
20. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.
Zhou
Fresco
1433 CE
Mita
21. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri
Sepoy Mutiny
Young Turks
Colonization
Hoplite
22. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Samurai
Syncretism
1929
Maximillien Robespierre
23. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Medina
Vedas
1095 CE
Zoroastrianism
24. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600
Telegraph
Italian Renaissance
Totalitarianism
1815
25. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.
Deng Xiaoping
Socrates
Israel
Ayatollah Khomeini
26. 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
Czar
Railroads
Abolition
1789
27. Branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Mainly found in Iran and a small part of Iraq. It is the state religion of Iran. A member of this group is called a Shi'ite.
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28. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
Monsoon
Darius I
632 CE
Persia
29. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
Shinto
Mita
Olmec
1258 CE
30. 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.
Jenne-jeno
Caliphate
Indulgence
180 CE
31. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.
Zulu
Holocaust
Babylon
1492
32. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Great Zimbabwe
Gujarat
King Charles I
Leonardo da Vinci
33. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
King Leopold II King of Belgium
1987
Shakespeare
Tanakh
34. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Pax Romana
Malay
6th century BCE
Repartimiento
35. 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
National Assembly
Nikita Khrushchev
1910
Swahili
36. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
1959
City state
Reconquista
Ulama
37. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Keiretsu
Trireme
Bartholomew Dias
Movable type
38. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Babylonian Empire
John F. Kennedy
Sumer
Balfour Declaration
39. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.
Stalingrad
Industrial Revolution
1095 CE
New Imperialism
40. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Nuremberg Trials
Telegraph
1066 CE
5th century BCE
41. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
1789
Benito Mussolini
Yurt
1756
42. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Herodotus
Aswan High Dam
Hittites
Franklin D. Roosevelt
43. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
Gothic Cathedrals
Gupta Empire
Enclosure Movement
Maori
44. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
Nazca
Benito Mussolini
pictograms
Mali
45. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Teotihuacan
Marie Curie
Mandate of Heaven
Sufi
46. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.
Albert Einstein
Five Year Plans
Revolutions of 1848
Eva Peron
47. 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.
Byzantine Empire
Ghana
OPEC
Separate Spheres
48. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
1453 CE
Mongols
Leonardo da Vinci
New Economic Policy
49. 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.
Aswan High Dam
Consul
Serf
Asian Tigers
50. 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.
Samurai
Cotton
Pearl Harbor
Korean War