Ap World History Review Questions

Front 1

Definition:
to absorb or adopt to a different culture

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assimilate/acculturate

Front 2

Definition:
right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their countries while in a different country

Back 2

Extraterritorial Rights

Front 3

Definition:
Right given to Spanish colonists to get tribute from the natives

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Encomienda

Front 4

Definition:
A person born in a Spanish colony, of European descent.

Back 4

Creole

Front 5

Definition:
Head of the cabinet in a parliamentary government.

Back 5

Prime Minister

Front 6

Definition:
Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean

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Monsoons

Front 7

Definition:
A Member of the Enlightenment, French term for philosopher

Back 7

Philisophe

Front 8

Definition:
Isolation of women in separate quarters in India

Back 8

Purdah

Front 9

Definition:
A type of literature that mocks something, The Divine Comedy is an example

Back 9

Satire

Front 10

Definition:
The belief in EUROPE that rulers were given authority by God

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Divine Right

Front 11

Definition:
Economic theory focusing on maintaining a favorable trade balance

Back 11

Mercantilism

Front 12

Definition:
Cold War Peace Conference in 1964

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Geneva Convention

Front 13

Definition:
Modern day Beijing, capital of the Ming and Qing Empires

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the Forbidden City

Front 14

Definition:
document that aimed to limit European interference in the Western Hemisphere, 1823

Back 14

Monroe Doctrine

Front 15

Definition:
Person responsible for the establishment of the first Fascist state

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Mussolini

Front 16

Definition:
Leader of the Indian Independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance, led nonviolent demonstrations against British colonial rule

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Gandhi

Front 17

Definition:
a system where people would promise work in exchange for passage to the new world

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Indentured Servitude

Front 18

Definition:
his peace negotiations led to the end of the Cold War and political supremacy of the Communist Party

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Gorbachev

Front 19

Definition:
Roman law was recorded on these

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Twelve Tables

Front 20

Definition:
Three Presidents that increased military involvement in Vietnam

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Eisenhower, Kennedy, Roosevelt

Front 21

Definition:
A device that determined a boat's latitude by the position of the stars

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Astrolabe

Front 22

Definition:
The study of the origin and development of people and society

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Anthropology

Front 23

Definition:
the practice that allowed men to have more than one wife

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Polygamy

Front 24

Definition:
A person, in a Spanish colony, of African and European descent

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Mulatto

Front 25

Definition:
Hindu custom of a women joining her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral fire

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Sati

Front 26

Definition:
Disease caused by the lack of Vitamin C

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Scurvey

Front 27

Definition:
term for a wondering poet during the Middle Ages

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Troubadour

Front 28

Definition:
The Samurai code of conduct

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Bushido

Front 29

Definition:
Policy of strict racial segregation in South Africa

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Apartheid

Front 30

Definition:
title for a successor of Muhammad as a political and religious leader of Muslims

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Caliphs

Front 31

Definition:
After this event, the US promised to remove missiles from Turkey and not to invade Cuba

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Front 32

Definition:
"Window to the West"

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St. Petersburg

Front 33

Definition:
U.S.S.R. Expanded

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Front 34

Definition:
People of Greece who were bound to the land and outnumbered Spartans 10:1

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Hellots

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Definition:
famous pan-Hellenic festivals

Back 35

Olympics

Front 36

Definition:
In the 900s, a large land empire, present day Germany

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Holy Roman Empire

Front 37

Definition:
a project started by Shi Huangdi, completed under the Ming Dynasty

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Great Wall of China

Front 38

Definition:
this person established punishment standard for violators in Babylon, "an eye for an eye"

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Hammurabi

Front 39

Definition:
FDR called this day a "date which will live in infamy"

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Pearl Harbor, December 7 1941

Front 40

Definition:
indo-European nomads, migrated through the Hindu Kush mountains in 1500 BCE

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Aryans

Front 41

Chronology:
Joan of Arc, The Black Death, Peloponnesian War, Zhou dynasty, Alexander II frees serfs

Back 41

1st: Zhou dynasty (1000BCE)
2nd: Peloponnesian War (490 BCE)
3rd: The Black Death (1347)
4th: Joan of Arc (1431)
5th: Alexander II frees serfs (1861)

Front 42

Chronology:
Revolutions of 1848, Russo-Japanese War, Hitler rise to power, US withdraws from Vietnam, fall of the Soviet Union

Back 42

1st: Revolutions of 1848 (Italy, France, Germany & Austria)
2nd: Russo-Japanese War (1905)
3rd: Hitler rise to power (1933)
4th: US witdraws from Vitnam (1973)
5th: fall of the Soviet Union (1991)

Front 43

Chronology:
American Revolution, French Revolution, Treaty of Versallies, WW2, WW1

Back 43

1st: American Revolution (1776)
2nd: French Revolution (1789)
3rd: WW1 (1914-1918)
4th: Treaty of Versallies (1919)
5th: WW2 (1939)

Front 44

Chronology:
Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister, Cuban Missile Crisis, League of Nations, Crimean War, Haiti gains independence

Back 44

1st: Haiti (1804)
2nd: Crimean War (1853)
3rd: League of Nations (1919)
4th: Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
5th: Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister (1979)

Front 45

Chronology:
Wealth of Nations published, Epic of Gilgamesh, Memoirs of Prince Metternich, Mein Kempf, Christopher Columbus' journals

Back 45

1st: Epic of Gilgamesh (BCE)
2nd: Christopher Columbus (1492ish)
3rd: Wealth of Nations (1776ish)
4th: Memoirs of Prince Metternich (1814)
5th: Mein Kempf (1920s)

Front 46

Chronology:
Phoenicians make alphabet, Ashoka converts, Rome attacked by Visogoths, Pizzaro conquers, Bay of Pigs

Back 46

1st: Phoenicians (1150s BCE)
2nd: Ashoka (270 BCE)
3rd: Rome sacked (410)
4th: Pizaro (1532)
5th: Bay of Pigs (1961)

Front 47

Chronology:
United Nations Created, Pearl Harbor, Tet Offensive, Chernobyl accident in USSR, sinking Lusitania, World Trade Center BOOM

Back 47

1st: Sinking of Lusitania (1915)
2nd: Pearl Harbor (1941)
3rd: United Nations (1945)
4th: Tet Offensive (1968)
5th: Chernobyl (1986)
6th: WTC (2001)

Front 48

Chronology:
Matthew Perry open trade in Japan, 7 years war, Simon Bolivar fights for independence, slaver ends in US, Germany unified

Back 48

1st: 7 years war (1763)
2nd: Simon Bolivar (1811)
3rd: Matt Perry (1850s)
4th: Slavery ends in US (1865)
5th: Germany unified (1881)

Front 49

Chronology:
Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, Julius Caesar killed, D-day, Zimmerman Note

Back 49

1st: Julius Caesar (44 BCE)
2nd: Magna Carta (1215)
3rd: Dec. of Ind. (1776)
4th: Zimmerman (1917)
5th: D-day (1944)