AP World History Semester Identify Flashcards

387219516	Erasmus	Important humanist thinker, wrote "In Praise of Folly"	0
387219517	Zheng He	Made 7 voyages for China	1
387219518	Vasco De Gamma	Portuguese Mariner who reached India in 1498	2
387219519	Brunelleschi	Dome on the cathedral of Florence was designed by..	3
387219520	Hongwu	Founder of he Ming Dynasty	4
387219521	Ibn Battuta	Legal scholar (qadi) who traveled extensively recording his observations	5
387219522	Marco Polo	His stories influenced other Europeans to visit China	6
387219523	Yongle	Complied Chinese History and cultural traditions into a large encyclopedia	7
387219524	Magellan	First to circumvent the globe	8
387219525	Dias	First to sail around the Cape of Good Hope; named it the Cape of Storms	9
387219526	James Cook	Led three expeditions into the Pacific in the 18th century	10
387219527	Netherlands	Most prosperous country in Europe in the 17th century	11
387219528	Fur	Russian merchants explored Siberia in search of..	12
387219529	Prince Henry	Set up a navigation school and sponsored a series of voyages down the west coast of Africa	13
387219530	Spain	First European nation to dominate trade with Asia	14
387219531	Aztec	Early Native American civilization located near present day Mexico City	15
387219532	Astrolabe	Thing used to measure latitude	16
387219533	Sugarcane	Portuguese viewed the Atlantic Ocean Islands as a great location for farming..	17
387219534	Australia	What country didn't participate in world wide trade by 1750	18
387219535	Spices	Europeans wanted what from India	19
387219536	Britain	What country carried out the most exploration of the Pacific	20
387219537	VOC	United East India Company is aka..	21
387219538	Philippines (Manila)	Center of Spanish commercial activity	22
387219539	Council of Trent	Council that took steps to reform the Catholic Church	23
387219540	Martin Luther	Who said " I cannot and will not recant anything, for it is neither safe nor right to act against one's conference. Here I stand. I can do no other"	24
387219541	Henry VIII	English King who left Catholicism to secure a divorce	25
387219542	Seal of Indulgences	What sparked Martin Luther to write 95 thesis	26
387219543	King Charles V	King who wanted to create a Holy Roman Empire, but failed	27
387219544	King Charles I	English Civil war ended with the decapitation of what king	28
387219545	King Louis XIV	Versailles is the Royal Palace of what king	29
387219546	Portugal	The nation that led the way for early european expedition	30
387219547	Fernando and Isabel	They established the Spanish inquisition	31
387219548	30 years war	Most destructive European conflict	32
387219549	Beats Me	Ignatius Loyola founded the..	33
387219550	Adam Smith	First great advocate of capitalism	34
387219551	Isaac Newton	Theory of universal gravitation came from who	35
387219552	Holland	England and who established a constitutional government in the 17th century	36
387219553	Elizabeth	Last King of the Tudor dynasty; most famous monarch of England	37
387219554	Renaissance	Fascination with the classical Rome and Greece; means "rebirth"	38
387219555	King Phillip	Spanish king who sent the Armada to destruction	39
387219556	Daimyo	Powerful Chinese territorial Lords	40
387219557	Qianlong	Made Vietnam, Burma, and Nepal vassal states of China	41
387219558	Shah Ismail	Islamic leader who converted to Twelver Shiism	42
387219559	Aurangzeb	Mughal reached its greatest land size under who	43
387219560	Osman	Founder of the Ottoman Empire	44
387219561	Ieyasu	In 1600, finished the process of unifying Japan	45
387219562	Suleyman	Ottoman Empire reached its greatest size and power under his rule	46
387219563	Manchu	Toppled the Ming Dynasty	47
387219564	Mehmed II	Conquered Constantinople	48
387219565	Qing	Translated means "pure"	49
387219566	Babur	Founder of the Mughal dynasty and a descendant of Tamerlane	50
387219567	Shah Jahan	Mughal ruler who constructed the Taj Mahal	51
387219568	Abkar	Islamic leader who abolished the jizya	52
387219569	Hurrem Sultana	A concubine who had tremendous influence over Suleyman	53
387219570	Ming	Overthrew the Yuan dynasty, translated means "brilliant"	54
387219571	Penninsulares	Spanish migrants who were born in Europe	55
387219572	Cortez	Defeated the Aztecs	56
387219573	Spanish	Wanted control of Guam because if was on the route between Acapulco and Manila	57
387219574	Pizzaro	Conquered the Incan	58
387219575	Dutch	First recorded European sighting of Australia was made by the..	59
387219576	Mestizo	European/Native American mix	60
387219577	Songhay	Last of the great imperial states of West Africa	61
387219578	Dennmark	First Europeans to abolish the slave trade	62
387219579	French	Who found the fur trade most profitable in North America	63
387219580	English	Established permanent settlement in Australia	64
387219581	Treaty of Tordesillas	Split Central and South America between Spain and Portugal	65
387219582	Great Zimbabwe	Large fortified city in southern Africa, dominated gold trade	66
387219583	Haiti	Only place where a slave revolt was successful	67
387219584	Timbuktu	Center of Islamic education in West Africa	68
387219585	L'Ouverture	Leader responsible for the slave uprising in Saint Dominique	69
387219586	Bolivar	Wanted to unite Spanish colonies to make one large union in S. America	70
387219587	Robespierre	Radical Period of the French Revo was led by..	71
387219588	Rousseau	In "Social Contract" he argued that equality means right to vote to all	72
387219589	Locke	Wrote "Second Treatise of Civil Government"	73
387219590	Metternich	Leading conservative politician at the Congress of Vienna	74
387219591	Herzel	Founder of Zionism	75
387219592	Bismark	Believed that the great issues of today would be decided by "blood and iron"	76
387219593	Rockefeller	Petroleum Monopoly was owned by..	77
387219594	Bessemer	His innovations made it possible to produce cheaper steel	78
387219595	Marx	Author of "Manifesto of the Communist Party"	79
387219596	Henry Ford	His assembly line made the production process quicker, cheaper, and more efficient	80
387219597	San Martin	Leader of the independence movement in Argentina	81
387219598	Cady Stanton	Organizer of the Seneca falls conference	82
387219599	Jenner	Vaccination against smallpox	83
387219600	James Watt	Invented the steam engine	84
387219601	Estates General	Assembly called by Louis 16th in order to settle the income tax issue between the clergy, nobles, and the common people	85
387219602	Trans-Siberian Railroad	Railroad whose construction was overseen by Count Sergei	86
387219603	Wealth of Nations	Book about the division of labor written by Adam Smith	87
387219604	\|\|\|\|QUARTER TEST\|\|\|\|	...	88
387219605	Cecil Rhodes	Leading British imperialist	89
387219606	Muhammad Ali	Egyptian Leader who overthrew Ottoman control	90
387219607	Alexander II	Emancipated the Russian Serfs	91
387219608	Nanjing	Treaty that ended the Opium war	92
387219609	Cixi	Ruled China for most of the Qing Dynasty	93
387219610	Boxers	Foreign embassies in China were attacked by this group (to get rid of all "foreign devils")	94
387219611	Lincoln	Dedicated to "free soil"	95
387219612	Wounded Knee	Last major Native American resistance battle in 1890	96
387219613	Nicholas II	Last Czar of Russia	97
387219614	Thomas Raffles	Founded Singapore	98
387219615	Boers	Dutch settlers in South Africa	99
387219616	Little Big Horn	Last major Native American victory against the US	100
387219617	Mahmud II	Sultan who killed Janissaries and wanted reform	101
387219618	Hong Xiuquan	Leader of the Taiping Rebellion	102
387219619	Sergei White	Prime mover behind Russian industrialization	103
387219620	Self Strengthening Movement	Wanted to blend Chinese culture with western technology	104
387219621	Spanish-American War	Short war that started due to the mysterious sinking of the (Italicized) Mariner (Italicized)	105
387219622	Young Turk	Party in the Ottoman Empire that called for change to democracy	106
387219623	Meji Restoration	Movement in Japan whose goal was to overthrow the Shogun and unify Japan	107
387219624	Bloody Sunday	Event that took place in Russia where peasants were killed while protesting about starvation	108
387219625	Henry Stanely	Searched in the inner African forest and founder Dr. Livingstone	109
387219626	Fran Ferdinand	His assassination was the spark for WWI	110
387219627	Wilfred Owen	Great poet during WWI, wrote "Duce el decorum"	111
387219628	Nicholas II	Last Czar of Russia	112
387219629	Ataturk	Established the Republic of Turkey	113
387219630	John Keynes	Who urged the US government to expand money supply and undertake public works programs	114
387219631	Chang Kai-shek	Leader of the Nationalist Party after 1925 (second guy)	115
387219632	Ghandi	Influenced Indian Nationals to work toward independence	116
387219633	Jinnah	Called for creation of an independent Pakistan "land of the pure"	117
387219634	Mao	Leader of the Chinese communist Party	118
387219635	FDR	President of the US who implemented the "New Deal"	119
387219636	Sun Yatsen	Early leader of the Nationalist People's Party, proclaimed China a Republic in 1912	120
387219637	Dubois	Black US activist and leading advocate of Pan-Africanism	121
387219638	Lenin	Instituted the New Economic Policy	122
387219639	Stalin	His 5 year plans were designed to turn Russia into an industrial power house	123
387219640	Marcus Garvey	Pivitol figure for black nationalism; wrote "Africa for Africans)	124
387219641	Keyatta	Led Kenya to independence from British	125
387219642	Indian National Congress	The oldest political party in India	126
387219643	Good Neighbor Policy	Policy of non-intervention with Latin American countries; established by FDR	127
387219644	Kashmir	India and Pakistan fought over this in 1947	128
387219645	Midway	Turning point of WWII in the Pacific	129
387219646	Okinawa	Kamikaze pilots first introduced during this battle	130
387219647	Manchuria	Undeclared war in the Pacific began with Japan's invasion here	131
387219648	Munich Conference	High point of appeasement took place at what conference	132
387219649	Blitzkrieg	Lightening War	133
387219650	Barbossa	Code name for Germany's invasion of USSR	134
387219651	Auschluss	Germany's union with Austria	135
387219652	Sudetenland	Western part of Czechoslovakia with many ethnic Germans	136
387219653	Non-Agression Pact	Agreement between Germany and USSR	137
387219654	Spanish Civil War	Italy and Germany intervened here before the outbreak of WWII	138
387219655	Rhineland	In 1936, Hitler remilitarized this area that borders France	139
387219656	Poland	WWII in Europe began with Hitlers invasion here	140
387219657	Normandy	THe US victory here led to the end of German resistance in western Europe	141
387219658	Magic	Secret code breaking operation was nicknamed..	142
387219659	Yalta	Wartime conference in 1945 between 3 principal Allied leaders	143
387219660	Warsaw Pact	Military alliance of communist European nations and USSR	144
387219661	Marshall Plan	US provided economic aid to rebuild Europe with this plan	145
387219662	November Crime	Hitler referred to the signing of the 1918 armistice as the..	146
387219663	Truman Doctrine	Policy to contain the spread of communism	147
387219664	Gamal Nasser	Leader of the Arab world in the 50s and 60s	148
387219665	Mao	He initiated the embarrassing "Great Leap Forward"	149
387219666	Ho Chi Minh	Leader of North Vietnam from 1945-1969	150
387219667	Diem	First pres of South Vietnam	151
387219668	Deng Xiaoping	Opened China to foreign, capitalist values	152
387219669	Indira Ghandi	Indian leader who tried to control the population by sterilization of men	153
387219670	Deinbienphu	The terrible 1954 defeat that forced France out of Vietnam	154
387219671	Nehru	Leader of India's Congress Party; Its first Prime Minister	155
387219672	De Klerk	Released Mandela from prison and worked to dismantle the apartheid system	156
387219673	Ayatollah Khomeini	He led Iranian Revolution	157
387219674	Ali Jinnah	Leader of the Muslim League and wanted an independent Pakistan	158
396397571	Eli Whitney	Invented interchangeable parts	159