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AP World History
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1. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Persia
Nazism
Epic of Gilgamesh
Papacy
2. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
Meiji Restoration
Bartolome de Las Casas
Asoka
Kievan Russia
3. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
10000 BCE
World Bank
Emilano Zapata
Scramble for Africa
4. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Charles Darwin
Indian National Congress
Moksha
Stone Age
5. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Confucianism
Ibn Battuta
Holocaust
6. Date: end of WWII
Ibn Battuta
1898
Capitalism
1945
7. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)
Umma
Epic of Gilgamesh
Richard Arkwright
Malay
8. 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.
Cultural Revolution
Cyrus
Agora
Totalitarianism
9. German leader of the Nazi Party
Steel
Epic of Gilgamesh
Adolf Hitler
Delhi Sulatanate
10. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
1324 CE
Deng Xiaoping
Max Planck
Dalai Lama
11. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Zhou dynasty
Shakespeare
Delhi
Leonardo da Vinci
12. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)
Malay
Solidarity
Helsinki Accords
3000s BCE
13. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Realpolitik
Maya
Mycenae
14. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
Ma'at
Henry the Navigator
Roman Republic
Repartimiento
15. 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
Modernization
WTO
Civilian Conservation Corps
Glorious Revolution
16. 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.
Mohenjo-Daro
1929
1618
1756
17. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
Alexander the Great
Eva Peron
Ma'at
Cixi
18. 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
Beijing
Nubians
1956
Revolutions of 1848
19. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma
Byzantine Empire
732 CE
Khubilai Khan
Celts
20. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.
Mansa Musa
Forbidden City
George Washington
Proxy wars
21. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Laissez faire
Mandate System
Hadith
Ulama
22. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
Assimilation
Humanism
1618
Sepoy
23. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Safavid Empire
Monotheism
24. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Carthage
Empress Dowager Cixi
Khomeini
25. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Mercantilism
Civilian Conservation Corps
1810s
Winston Churchill
26. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Treaty of Nanking
Hoplite
220 CE
27. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
Tamil Kingdoms
Samurai
WTO
Hacienda
28. The founder of Buddhism
Western Front
Siddhartha Gautama
Movable type
Grand Canal
29. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
1810s
Wheel of Life
1861
Bread and Circuses
30. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.
1804
Peloponnesian War
Witchcraft
Manchuria
31. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)
The Mahdi
Kepler
Mali
Conquistadors
32. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Carthage
Emperor Menelik
Suleiman the Magnificent
Italian Renaissance
33. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Shang
Champa Rice
Pericles
Roman Principate
34. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
Zoroastrianism
Mansa Musa
City state
Abbasid Caliphate
35. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
ethnic cleansing
Cultural Revolution
Dar al-Islam
Pearl Harbor
36. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Minoan
Zaibatsu
Balance of power
221 BCE
37. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Silk Road
Shinto
Copernicus
Democracy
38. 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.
1347 CE
Faisal
Janapadas
Indulgence
39. Date: French Revolution begins
Hebrew Bible
1789
Umma
Jenne-Jeno
40. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
Samsara
Liu Bang
Laissez faire
Great Zimbabwe
41. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.
Karma
Diffusion
Victorian Age
Celts
42. 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.
Aborigine
Ramesses II
Enconmienda
New Imperialism
43. 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.
Stalingrad
Dirty War
Hiroshima
Scientific Revolution
44. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.
Hebrew Bible
Sudetenland
1871
Sepoy Mutiny
45. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Joseph Stalin
Jose Morelos
Muslim
Albert Einstein
46. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Bourgeoisie
Tito
Maori
32 CE
47. A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native America
Suez Canal
Encomienda
Diaspora
Vedas
48. 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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49. 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.
1947
Manchus
Nation-State
Buddha
50. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Jenne-Jeno
1979
Jizya
Leonardo da Vinci