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AP World History
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1. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
The Mahdi
Armenia
League of Nations
Investiture
2. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.
Sokoto Caliphate
Colonization
Epic of Gilgamesh
Cixi
3. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
George Washington
Uigurs
Ottomans
Fascist Party
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.
Daoism
Comfort girls
Colonialism
Yellow River
5. 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.
Mantra
Tributary system
Tribute system
Eva Peron
6. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
Mita
Catholic Reformation
Hammurabi
Woodrow Wilson
7. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Rigveda
Philosophes
Jamestown
Pilgrims
8. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Mestizo
Tito
Caliphate
Diocletian
9. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
Yuan Empire
Witch-hunt
Huguenot
1954
10. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
Hellenistic Age
Macartney Mission
Yellow River
Democracy
11. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.
Suleiman the Magnificent
Persia
Vladimir Lenin
Sikhs
12. 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
Tao-te Ching
Separate Spheres
vassal
Yongle
13. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred
Acropolis
Solon
Indulgences
Fidel Castro
14. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Kievan Russia
Tang Revival
Warsaw Pact
Constitutional Convention
15. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
Zoroastrianism
Babylon
Ghana
Sasanid Empire
16. 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.
Weimar Republic
Fourteen Points
Daoism
Grand Canal
17. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
Shogun
Charles Darwin
Kievan Russia
1914-1918
18. 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.
Cyrus
Charlemagne
Three-field system
Opium Wars
19. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Golden Horde
Deng Xiaoping
Glorious Revolution
Twelve Tables
20. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities
Hoplite
Delian League
Aswan High Dam
Habsburgs
21. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Great Zimbabwe
Durbar
Vladimir Lenin
Han
22. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
Delhi Sulatanate
Italian Renaissance
Shang Dynasty
1994
23. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America
Hinduism
632 CE
Ulama
Neocolonialism
24. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Francisco Franco
Monsoon
1863
Henry the Navigator
25. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
League of Nations
Gunpowder
loess
Gold Coast
26. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.
Celts
Nazism
1071 CE
Creole
27. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Satrapy
Cotton
Copernicus
Maya
28. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
1931
Yellow Turban
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Isfahan
29. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Philip II
Delian League
1941
Mestizo
30. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Pilgrims
Enclosure Movement
urbanization
Napoleonic Wars
31. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Gold Coast
Artha-sastra
32. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
United Nations
Jenne-jeno
Jose Morelos
Witchcraft
33. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Weimar Republic
Chiang Kai-Shek
Republic
Peloponnesian War
34. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Ptolemy
Tennis Court Oath
Rajputs
Opium Wars
35. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
Auschwitz
Iconoclast
Manchuria
Kamikaze
36. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
6th century BCE
Mongols
Chavin
Holy Roman Empire
37. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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38. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.
Investiture
assimilation
Champa Rice
George Washington
39. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Laissez Faire
Investiture
Marco Polo
Karma
40. 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)
Bengal
Malay
Timur
Dar al-Islam
41. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
Delhi
Emilano Zapata
Postmodernism
221 BCE
42. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
Electricity
1607
Khomeini
1989
43. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Battle of Midway
Safavid Empire
1899
Sahel
44. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Maya
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Reconquista
The Mahdi
45. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.
African National Congress
Sikhism
1945
Islam
46. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Jamestown
Caesar Augustus
Zaibatsu
Great Zimbabwe
47. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
Constantinople
1950
Glorious Revolution
Christopher Columbus
48. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
Maya
Minoans
Western Front
1815
49. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Vishnu
Chiefdom
1571
Auschwitz
50. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Medina
Mali
Cossaks
Herodotus