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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
Cortes
Mandate System
Khomeini
Three-field system
2. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Paleolithic
Marco Polo
Congress of Vienna
1533
3. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
Vladimir Lenin
Cottage industry
Auschwitz
Adolf Hitler
4. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.
Sigmund Freud
Keiretsu
Roman Senate
Persepolis
5. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian
Terrorism
Varna
Buddha
Peloponnesian War
6. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt
Suleiman the Magnificent
Hinduism
Quran
Cambyses II
7. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Gujarat
Lusitania
1607
Holy Roman Empire
8. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Kepler
Samurai
Mamluks
Ottomans
9. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
Persepolis
Constitutionalism
1804
deforestation
10. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Sokoto Caliphate
Rigveda
Mass production
Darius I
11. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Porfirio Díaz
Ethiopia
Yuan Empire
Asian Tigers
12. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Zen
1533
Liu Bang
Enclosure Movement
13. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
deforestation
Guomindang
Capitalism
Hadith
14. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
1914-1918
1905
WTO
1776
15. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav
Janissaries
Theravada Buddhism
Salvador Allende
Yongle
16. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Shang Dynasty
Glorious Revolution
Empiricism
Qin
17. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
Emilio Aguinaldo
5th century BCE
Jacobins
Steppes
18. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Persian Wars
Scholasticism
Henry the Navigator
Mikhail Gorbachev
19. 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)
1571
Battle of Midway
Monasticism
Cortes
20. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Sikhism
Submarine telegraph cables
Jizya
Artha-sastra
21. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
Ottomans
Glorious Revolution
Polis
220 CE
22. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Colonialism
Agricultural Revolution
Safavid Empire
OPEC
23. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)
Conquistadors
10000 BCE
Bartholomew Dias
Adolf Hitler
24. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.
deforestation
Nehru
Asante
Mohandas Gandhi
25. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
Weimar Republic
Crystal Palace
Joesph Stalin
1571
26. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Enclosure Movement
Thomas Edison
Faisal
Tanakh
27. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Martin Luther
Juan Peron
Hegemony
Sigmund Freud
28. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Modernization
1949
Tang Revival
Gulag
29. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.
National Assembly
Stoicism
Qin
Pearl Harbor
30. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog
Jainism
632 CE
Realpolitik
Benito Mussolini
31. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Sunnis
Hydrogen bomb
Hieroglyphics
assimilation
32. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Peloponnesian War
Berlin Blockade
Royal African Company
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
33. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Warsaw Pact
Stoicism
Ottomans
1521
34. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Jesus
Young Turks
6th century BCE
Shogun
35. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Imperialism
Patricians
Aztecs
Diaspora
36. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Maori
Diaspora
Sun Yat-Sen
Scientific Revolution
37. 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
5th century BCE
Bartolome de Las Casas
Manchus
38. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Mass deportation
Mandate System
The Golden Triangle
Zimmerman telegram
39. 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.
Colonization
Hittites
1910
Sasanid Empire
40. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
1941
Janissaries
St. Augustine
Puranas
41. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.
Steel
Jenne-jeno
Triumvirate
Junk
42. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Pax Romana
Swahili
Montezuma II
Gens de couleur
43. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Caesar Augustus
Suleiman the Magnificent
Ibn Khaldun
Proxy war
44. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Stalingrad
Suez Canal
Asian Tigers
Mohenjo-Daro
45. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
French Revolution
John Locke
Solomon's Temple
1756
46. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
476 CE
1815
Sasanid Empire
Middle Passage
47. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Cotton
Creole
House of Burgesses
Joint-stock company
48. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Druids
Suez Canal
Hinduism
Faisal
49. 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.
Hundred Years War
Yuan Empire
Daoism
Aswan High Dam
50. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
1939
Stalingrad
Mestizo
Extraterritoriality