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AP World History
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1. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Extraterritoriality
Nuclear nonproliferation
pictograms
Adolf Hitler
2. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
Emperor Menelik
Fresco
Suez Canal
Sasanid Empire
3. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu
Mohenjo-Daro
Hoplite
1871
Glorious Revolution
4. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)
Armenia
Peloponnesian War
Fidel Castro
221 BCE
5. Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws - inscribed on a black stone pillar - illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
Papyrus
Indian National Congress
Hammurabi
Agricultural Revolution
6. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
Quran
180 CE
Witch-hunt
Jenne-Jeno
7. 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
Thomas Edison
Hydrogen bomb
Revolutions of 1848
Moksha
8. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
1810s
Jesuits
1956
Hegemony
9. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cold War
1488
Jenne-jeno
Balance of Power
10. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Hoplite
1941
Bartolomeu Dias
Fidel Castro
11. 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.
Cottage industry
Hittites
Bolshevik
Neo-Assyrian Empire
12. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Shi'a
Umma
Investiture
Chinampas
13. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jenne-jeno
Polis
Umma
14. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.
Paterfamilias
Extraterritoriality
Memphis
Twelve Tables
15. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
1804
McCarthyism
Cuban Missile Crisis
Shang
16. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices
Reconquista
Devshirme
Druids
Syncretism
17. 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.)
Korean War
Memphis
Gujarat
Pax Romana
18. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
All-India Muslim League
Janissary
Tang Empire
Centuries
19. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Thomas Edison
Guomindang
Nongovernmental Organizations
Copernicus
20. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
1863
Black Death
Holocaust
Tribune
21. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
Marco Polo
220 CE
James Watt
Pancho Villa
22. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
Jainism
Mauryan Empire
Nirvana
Mali
23. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
Pax Mongolica
Sahel
Song Dynasty
Sepoy
24. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
St. Augustine
Silk Road
Royal African Company
Scientific Revolution
25. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Charlemagne
Tito
Concordat
1815
26. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
Gujarat
Hacienda
Estates General
Thomas Malthus
27. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Zhou dynasty
Goths
32 CE
Gulag
28. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
Great Zimbabwe
Ethiopia
Theodosius
95 Theses
29. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
632 CE
Hadith
Balfour Declaration
Thebes
30. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty
Montezuma II
Qin
1929
Stalingrad
31. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Sepoy
Delhi Sulatanate
Third World
Cottage industry
32. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Champa Rice
Golden Horde
Agricultural Revolution
Mandate of Heaven
33. A French Protestant
Chavin
Huguenot
Kepler
Uigurs
34. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
1517
Octavian
Habsburg
1839
35. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
Great Western Schism
Safavid Empire
Humanists
St. Augustine
36. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
Olmec
Crystal Palace
Timur
Delhi Sultanate
37. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.
vassal
Indian Ocean
Samurai
Darius I
38. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Sikhism
Neolithic
Humanists
Hanseatic League
39. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Delhi
Zimmerman telegram
Nikita Khrushchev
Herodotus
40. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Tributary system
Cold War
Legalism
Jesuits
41. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
Benito Mussolini
Forbidden City
Horse collar
Confucianism
42. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon
Yurt
Third World
Bolsheviks
legalism
43. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.
Ibn Battuta
Max Planck
Zen
Richard Arkwright
44. 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.
Crystal Palace
1899
Herodotus
Hinduism
45. German leader of the Nazi Party
Panama Canal
Memphis
Divine Right of Kings
Adolf Hitler
46. 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.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Pearl Harbor
Movable type
Mahabharata
47. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses
Qin
Socrates
Apostle Paul
Darius I
48. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.
Panama Canal
Guomindang
Janapadas
323 BCE
49. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.
Monasticism
Pericles
Mulatto
Nazca
50. 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
Mecca
Roman Republic
City state