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AP World History
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1. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
Roman Republic
Zulu
Persia
Khomeini
2. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Mestizo
Solomon's Temple
Opium Wars
New Economic Policy
3. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.
Francisco Franco
Crystal Palace
Janapadas
legalism
4. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Parthians
urbanization
Confucianism
Industrial Revolution
5. 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.
Christopher Columbus
Charles de Gaulle
Ibn Khaldun
Sun Yat-Sen
6. 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.
Nazca
Revolutions of 1848
Leonardo da Vinci
World Bank
7. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Gens de couleur
Mass production
Francisco Franco
Gunpowder
8. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Warring States Period
Caliphate
Balance of power
Leonid Brezhnev
9. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
Jacobins
Opium Wars
Sasanid Empire
1095 CE
10. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Mycenae
House of Burgesses
Samsara
Dharma
11. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Bourgeoisie
Hellenistic Age
John F. Kennedy
Polis
12. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a
Alexandria
Divination
Separate Spheres
Ming
13. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices
Tang Revival
Octavian
Maori
Syncretism
14. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Shakespeare
Lama
Sun Yat-Sen
Hundred Years War
15. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Constantinople
Zoroastrianism
Mercantilism
Panama Canal
16. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Prince Henry The Navigator
Plato
Indian Ocean
Constitutionalism
17. 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).
Siddhartha Gautama
Karl Marx
Mahayana Buddhism
Enconmienda
18. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
Legalism
Iron curtain
Steel
Jesuits
19. 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.
Third World
Mamluks
Gupta Empire
Toussaint L'Ouverture
20. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Armenia
Marie Curie
Peloponnesian War
1962
21. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
1910
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Celts
Apostle Paul
22. 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
Abbasid Dynasty
Joint-stock company
Humanism
23. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Syncretism
Bengal
Darius I
Joesph Stalin
24. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Joesph Stalin
Shakespeare
Jizya
1905
25. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Punic Wars
Ferdinand Magellan
Mongol Empire
Hinduism
26. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Muhammad
Yellow River
Mohandas Gandhi
27. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
Monsoon
Armenia
Janissaries
hadith
28. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.
Iron curtain
527 CE
Simon Bolivar
Varna
29. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Nehru
Patricians
Tennis Court Oath
Dalai Lama
30. Ultraconservative empress in Qing (Manchu) dynasty China. Ruled china in the turbulent late 19th century - not as a true Empress but as an Empress Dowager.
Cixi
Four Noble Truths
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pax Romana
31. 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.
Realpolitik
Abolition
Manumission
New Imperialism
32. 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)
Collectivization
Leonid Brezhnev
liberalism
Mechanization
33. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)
Congress of Vienna
Mestizo
Tanzimat
Royal African Company
34. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
Aryans
St. Augustine
Mahayana Buddhism
Hellenistic
35. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Khomeini
Ming
Zoroastrianism
Mestizo
36. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
Julius Caesar
Francisco Franco
Babylonian Empire
Aborigine
37. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)
Pax Romana
Hanseatic League
Gunpowder
Janissaries
38. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism
Warsaw Pact
Qin
Serf
Bourgeoisie
39. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Paleolithic
Akhenaten
Zheng He
Forbidden City
40. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
Hydrogen bomb
United Nations
Totalitarianism
Khubilai Khan
41. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.
Bread and Circuses
1914-1918
Empress Wu
Guild
42. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
1905
Daoism
Zhou dynasty
Enconmienda
43. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
1492
Great Zimbabwe
hadith
Nirvana
44. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Keiretsu
Habsburg
Khipu
45. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.
Albert Einstein
Movable type
Caste system
Neocolonialism
46. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Great Zimbabwe
cuneiform
Legalism
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
47. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Uigurs
Confucius
Durbar
Copernicus
48. 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.
Mesopotamia
Sudetenland
African National Congress
Driver
49. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
Lusitania
Tribute system
1488
Ziggurat
50. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
1945
French Revolution
Peloponnesian War
Asian Tigers