AP World Final Review

Who was the founder of Sikhism?

Guru Nanak

What was known as the "culmination of European religious conflict?

enlightenment

Who developed an improved telescope in 1609?

Galileo

What did Martin Luther publish?

95 Thesis

Who wrote their Treatise on Toleration?

Voltaire

What shattered the unity of the Roman Catholic Church?

Protestant Reformation

Who created the heliocentric model of the solar system?

Copernicus

What Englishman formulated the modern laws of motion and mechanics?

Issac Newton

What religious revival took place in Peru?

Taki Onqoy

What is "sati"

A Hindu funeral practice in which a widow self-immolates on her husband's pyre.

Who claimed direct descent from the last Inca Emperor?

Tupac Amaru

What were the names of the three Estates in France?

The clergy, the nobility, and the commoners

What stated that men are born and remain free and equal in rights?

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

Who led the Committee of Public Safety during most of the French Revolution?

Maximilien Robespierre

Who wrote the Vindication of the Rights of Women

Mary Wollstonecraft

Who led France by 1799?

Napoleon Bonaparte

What was the instrument through which many people were executed in France?

guillotine

What was the authority to govern that was derived from the people rather than God?

popular sovereignty

Which American feminist drafted a statement that mirrored the Declaration of Independence?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What two countries in Europe united in the late 1800s

Italy and Germany

What is guano used for?

Fertilizer

What does Anthropocene literally mean?

Age of man

Who wrote the communist manifesto?

Karl Marx

Military strongmen of Latin America

Caudillos

Who produced the Model T

Henry Ford

How long was the Mexican Revolution

10 years

What machine gave rise to the Industrial revolution?

Steam engine

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov led what group in Russia?

Bolsheviks

By 1914 who was the world's leading industrialized nation?

The United States

What group sought the destruction of industrial machinery?

Luddites

What is the agricultural production of crops for sale in the market rather than for consumption by the farmers called?

Cash Crop Production

The United States acquired these two colonies/territories in 1898.

Hawaii and Peruto Rico

King Leopold II ruled over Belgium and this African country

Congo Free State

Japan annexed this country in 1910.

Korea

What is Rapa Nui?

Easter Island

Bananas are from this region.

Tropics

European countries that sought colonies in Africa called it this.

Scramble for Africa

Charles Darwin's theory was changed into this.

Social Darwinism

A system of institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa.

Apartheid

India rebelled against whom when it was rumored that animal fat was used for cartridges?

Great Britain

Modernization of the Ottoman Empire was called what?

Tanzimat

Who became the first Asian state to defeat a major European country?

Japan

What country was known as "the sick man of Europe?

Ottoman empire

In 1793 what person lost the North American colonies?

King George the 3rd

Who abandoned any reference to Islam and advocated a military secular public life?

Kemal Attaturk

What American officer opened Japan to trade?

Matthew Perry

What was a Daimyo?

feudal lord

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists led this.

Boxer uprising

What family ran Japan for 250 years?

Tokugawa shogunate

Opium was primarily produced in this country.

India

What treaty ended WWI?

Treaty of Versailles

What Serbian nationalist may have stated WWI?

Gavrilo Princip

What international group was made to ensure peace among nations after WWI?

League of Nations

The Communist Chinese Revolution took place in 1949, who led it?

Mao Zedong

Who was the Soviet leader between the late 1920's and into the 1950s?

Joseph Stalin

Mussolini and Hitler both lead this new political ideology in their countries.

Facism

The Allies during WWII made up of these 4 countries?

Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the Untied States

Hitler wrote what book?

Mein Kampf

What economic catastrophe took place from 1929-1936?

The Great Depression

Many people died of starvation in the new Soviet Union through this large scale farming method.

Collectivization of Agriculture

What does NATO stand for?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

An effort to mobilize China's economic might was called the?

The Great Leap Forward

At the end of WWII the US reshaped the European economy using this?

The Marshall Plan

During the 1950s and the 1960s which weapon became the universal symbol for fireballs and mushroom shaped clouds?

Hydrogen Bomb

What was the revolution that took place in 1979 in Iran?

Iranian Revolution

What was the leader of India that rejected modern industrialization as a goal for his country?

Mohandas Gandhi

What were the collection of nations guided by the Soviet Union called in the 1950s-the 1980s called?

Warsaw Pact

After WWII, what was the long term war between western and soviet states called?

Cold war

Who ruled China from the 1940s through the 1970s?

Mao Zedong

What wall fell that symbolized the end of conflicts between western and soviet states?

The Berlin Wall

What does the WTO Stand for?

World Trade Organization

What is NAFTA?

North America Free Trade Agreement

In what century did the use of fossil fuels skyrocket?

20th century

The growing culture of leisure and consumption is often called.

Consumerism

What countries were the Asian Tigers?

Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea

What was the separation of blacks and whites in South Africa called?

Apartheid

What country held the one child policy?

China

An informal economy is also called a.

Shadow economy

What does GDP stand for?

Gross Domestic Product

What caused the more widespread availability of electricity?

Electrical Grids

What is the Anthropocene known as?

Age of man

Hindu nationalism is known as what?

Hindutva

Cities that are home to over 10 million people are called what?

Megacities

What three ways is HIV/AIDS spread?

contaminated blood, dirty needles, sexual contact

What country outlawed the wearing of headscarves for women in 1981?

France

When was the attack on the World Trade Center that brought the towers to the ground?

September 11, 2001

What greatly increased the agricultural output through the use of tractors, chemicals and high yielding varieties of wheat and rice?

Green Revolution

What was the move of popular culture around the world called?

Cultural Globalization

What country held to a one-child policy?

China

What disease was eradicated by a new vaccine in 1977?

Small Pox