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AP World History Final Exam Study Guide
Identification:
1. Hammurabi (Babylon)
2. Asoka (India)
3. Socrates (Greece)
4. Plato (Greece)
5. Aristotle (Greece
6. Alexander the Great (Greece)
7. Julius Caesar (Rome)
8. Augustus (Rome)
9. Justinian (Byzantine)
10. Empress Theodora (Byzantine)
11. Czar Ivan III (Russia)
12. Genghis Khan (Mongol)
13. Marco Polo
14. Ibn Battuta
15. Sundiata Kieta (Mali)
16. Mansa Musa (Mali)
17. Pope Gregory VII
18. King Henry IV (Germany)
19. Machiavelli
20. Leonardo da Vinci
21. Michelangelo
22. Petrarch & Erasmus
23. Dante
24. Martin Luther
25. John Calvin
26. Henry VIII (England)
27. Elizabeth I (England)
28. Zheng He (China)
29. Vasco da Gama (Portugal)
30. Christopher Columbus (for
Spain)
31. Ferdinand Magellan (for Spain)
32. James Cook (England)
33. Samuel Champlain (France)
34. Oda Nobunaga (Japan)
35. Kangxi (China)
36. Suleyman the Magnificent
(Ottoman)
37. Shah Abbas I (Safavid)
38. Babur (Mughal)
39. Akbar (Mughal)
40. Copernicus
41. Galileo
42. Johannes Kepler
43. Isaac Newton
44. John Locke
45. Voltaire
46. Jean-Jacque Rousseau
47. Louis XIV (France)
48. Czar Peter the Great (Russia)
49. Tokugawa Ieyasu (Japan)
50. Commodore Matthew Perry
(U.S.)
51. Adam Smith
52. Karl Marx
53. Otto Von Bismarck (Germany)
54. Emperor Meiji (Japan)
55. Young Turks
56. Albert Einstein
57. Sigmund Freud
58. Pablo Picasso
59. Vladimir Lenin (Russia)
60. Bolsheviks
61. Josef Stalin (Soviet Union)
62. Benito Mussolini (Italy)
63. Adolf Hitler (Germany)
64. Hirohito (Japan)
65. Sun Yat Sen (China)
66. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (Turkey)
67. Mohandas K. Gandhi (India)
68. Winston Churchill (United
Kingdom)
69. Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA)
70. Harry Truman (USA)
71. General Douglas Macarthur
(USA)
72. Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
73. Mao Zedong (China)
74. Chiang kai-shek/Jiang Jeishi
(China)
75. Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana)
76. Nikita Krushchev (Soviet Union)
77. Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet
Union)
78. Golda Meir (Israel)
79. Indira Gandhi (India)
80. Margaret Thatcher(United
Kingdom)
AP World History Final Exam Study Guide
Vocabulary:
1. monotheism
2. Zoroastrianism
3. cuneiform
4. hieroglyphics
5. alphabet
6. cultural diffusion
7. civil service system
8. mandate of heaven
9. patriarchal
10. subcontinent
11. polis
12. philosophy
13. Hellenism
14. polytheism
15. manorial system
16. feudalism
17. pope
18. humanism
19. conquistador
20. astrolabe
21. imperialism
22. urbanization
23. alliance system
24. militarism
25. nationalism
26. reparations
27. mandate system
28. dynasty
29. totalitarianism
30. fascism
31. Marshall Plan
32. ideology
33. communism
34. S.A.L.T.
35. apartheid
36. United Nations
37. Tiananmen Square
38. pan-Africanism
39. pan-Arabism
40. terrorism
41. O.P.E.C.
42. World Trade Organization -
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Instructions: complete with thorough and accurate responses. Do NOT type your
answers. Write your responses on this handout or on a separate sheet of paper (but not
both).
Civilizations, Empires, Dynasties, Nation-states, & Countries
1. Ancient Mesopotamia (Sumer) – location: Fertile Crescent/modern day Iraq
a. accomplishments: invention of wheel, sail, potter’s wheel, number system (10, 60, 360), cuneiform
b. best/worst leaders: Sargon I (unified city-states) & Hammurabi (law code)
c. cultural traits: polytheistic, city-states, ziggurats, farming with irrigation, etc., pessimistic outlook
2. Ancient Egypt a.
b.
c.
3. Hebrews a.
b.
c.
4. Phoenicians a.
b. N/A
c.
5. Maurya a.
b.
c.
6. Gupta a.
b. N/A
c.
7. Zhou a.
b. N/A
c.
8. Qin a.
b.
c.
9. Ancient Greece a.
b.
c.
10. Ancient Rome (Republican) a.
b.
c.
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11. Ancient Rome (Empire) a.
b.
c.
12. Byzantine Empire a.
b.
c.
13. Moscow/Russia Empire a.
b.
c.
14. Mongols a.
b.
c.
15. Islamic Empire a.
b.
c.
16. Bantu a.
b. N/A
c.
17. Ghana a.
b. N/A
c.
18. Mali a.
b.
c.
19. Songhai a.
b.
c.
20. Medieval Europe a.
b.
c.
21. Olmec a.
b. N/A
c.
22. Maya a.
b. N/A
c.
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23. Aztec a.
b.
c.
24. Inca a.
b.
c.
25. Tokugawa Shogunate –
a.
b.
c.
26. Qing Dynasty a.
b.
c.
27. Mughal Empire a.
b.
c.
28. Ottoman Empire a.
b.
c.
29. Savavid Empire a.
b.
c.
30. Meiji Japan a.
b.
c.
31. Romanov Dynasty a.
b.
c.
32. Hapsburg Dynasty (Austria) a.
b.
c.
33. Nazi Germany a.
b.
c.
34. Fascist Italy a.
b.
c.
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35. Empire of Japan (Pre WW II and WW II) a.
b.
c.
36. Totalitarian Soviet Union a.
b.
c.
37. Communist China a.
b.
c.
Events - explain the significance, development, etc. of the following:
1. Development of monotheism 2. Development of writing 3. Development and the basic beliefs of Hinduism 4. Development and basic beliefs of Buddhism 5. Development and basic beliefs of Confucianism –
6. Rise of Constantinople 7. Spread of Christianity 8. Schism of 1054 –
9. Decline and capture of Constantinople (1453) –
10. Origins of Islam 11. Basic beliefs of Islam –
12. Sunni/Shiite split –
13. Impact of the Crusades on the Islamic World & Europe –
14. Growth of towns and cities –
15. The Renaissance –
16. The Protestant Reformation (Luther’s)
17. The English Reformation –
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18. Improved technology in European Exploration –
19. Scientific Revolution –
20. The Enlightenment –
21. English Civil War –
22. French Revolution –
23. Haitian Revolution –
24. Latin American Independence Movements –
25. Industrial Revolution –
26. Unification of Germany –
27. Opium War –
28. Taiping Rebellion 29. Imperialism in Africa by the British –
30. Imperialism in Indochina by the French –
31. Imperialism in Asia by the Japanese –
32. Russo-Japanese War –
33. Boxer Rebellion –
34. Causes of World War I –
35. Battle of Verdun –
36. Russian Revolution –
37. Versailles Treaty –
38. Russian Five Year Plans –
39. Italian Invasion of Ethiopia –
40. Spanish Civil War –
41. The Rape of Nanking –
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42. German Annexation of the Sudetenland –
43. Attack on Pearl Harbor –
44. Battle El-Alamein –
45. Battle of Stalingrad –
46. D-Day (Battle) –
47. Battle of Guadalcanal –
48. Battle for the Philippines (World War II) –
49. Chinese Civil War 50. Formation of Israel –
51. Independence of India –
52. Cold War Arms Race –
53. Tiananmen Square Massacre –
54. Fall of the Berlin Wall 55. Pan-Africanism –
56. Pan-Arabism –
57. Bosnia-Herzegovina –
58. Rwanda –
59. Breakup of the Soviet Union –
60. Rise of terrorism (PLO, Shining Path, Red Brigade, Hamas, & Al Qaeda) –
61. Development of television, satellites, & computers -