AP World Funcards 2024-2025

Question 1

Economic theory that governments served their countries’ economic interests best by encouraging exports/gaining bullion.

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Mercantilism

Question 2

Chinese program of internal reform. Vigorous application of traditional principles and limited borrowing from the West.

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Self-strengthening movement

Question 3

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 whose efforts to reform the USSR led to its collapse.

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Mikhail Gorbechev

Question 4

East African civilization that emerged in 8th century. Set of commercial city-states linked into the sea roads.

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Swahili civilization

Question 5

Fundamental moral and ethical guidelines for Jewish and Christian faiths.

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Ten Commandments

Question 6

Large Hindu religious structure in modern Cambodia. Cosmos centered on a mythical Mount Meru, the home of the gods.

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Angkor Wat

Question 7

Professional merchants among the Aztecs who undertook large-scale trading expeditions in the fifteenth century.

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Pochteca

Question 8

Dancing sickness. Religious revival movement in Peru preaching the imminent destruction of Christianity and Europeans.

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Taki Onqoy

Question 9

Islamic law, dealing with political, economic, social, and religious life.

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Sharia

Question 10

European-borne epidemic diseases on the Americas that caused drastic demographic decline.

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The Great Dying

Question 11

Mass casualties, a shift in women's roles, the rise of nationalism, etc.

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Consequences of WWI

Question 12

Massive uprising in India against British rule caused by introduction to military cartridge smeared with animal fat.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857-1858

Question 13

Period of peace in region. No civil war but not unified. Led by shoguns. Closed from European encroachments.

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Tokugawa Japan

Question 14

Large-scale increase in Latin American exports to industrializing countries. Benefited the upper and middle classes.

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Latin American export boom

Question 15

Influential Mali ruler. Led a large group of Muslims on the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324–1325.

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Mansa Musa

Question 16

Ruled over Egyptian region 1250-1517. Established by Mamluk slave warriors.

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Mamluk Sultanate

Question 17

Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that conquered the Aztec Empire in modern Mexico.

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Hernán Cortés

Question 18

Major Turkic empire established in Persia in 16th century. Notable for its efforts to convert its people to Shia Islam.

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Safavid Empire

Question 19

Global pandemic. 50 million dead. Disease carried by demobilized soldiers/refugees/dislocated people returning from WWI.

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1918 Influenza pandemic

Question 20

How cooked are you for the AP test?

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Question 21

Process in which many African/Asian states won independence from Western colonial rule. Negotiations and violence.

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Decolonization

Question 22

Land-based trade routes linking many regions of Eurasia. Named after the most famous product traded along these routes.

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Silk Roads

Question 23

Movement of Turkish military/civilian elites advocating militantly secular public life and Turkish national identity.

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Young Turks

Question 24

Catholic-Protestant struggle. European religious conflict. Brought to an end by agreement each state is sovereign.

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30 Years’ War

Question 25

Ideas of thrift, hard work, rigid moral, respectability, cleanliness.

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Middle-class values

Question 26

Significant Southeast Asian state that assimilated Hindu religious ideas. On the island of Java. Peaked 14th century.

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Madjapahit

Question 27

Leader of the Soviet Union. Under him came the collectivization of agriculture, the Great Terror, and the gulag system.

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Stalin

Question 28

East Asian relationship of voluntary borrowing. Deliberately assimilated much of Chinese culture.

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China-Japan relationship

Question 29

Population control policy from 1980-2014. Finance incentives/penalties promoting birth control/sterilization/abortion.

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China’s one-child family policy

Question 30

A leader of the French Revolution during the Terror. Guillotined thousands of enemies up until his own execution.

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Robespierre

Question 31

The monotheistic religion developed in the Middle East by the Hebrews, emphasizing concerns for social justice.

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Judaism

Question 32

Movement in Japan during Great Depression. Extreme nationalism, commitment to elite leadership, and foreign expansion.

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Radical Nationalism in Japan

Question 33

International organization aiming to maintain international peace, security, and global cooperation.

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United Nations

Question 34

Empire of 11-12th centuries. Centered in Persia/Iraq. Rulers adopted the Muslim title of sultan in conversion to Islam.

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Seljuk Turkic Empire

Question 35

Elite class of the Mughal Empire who controlled large tracts of land and collected taxes on behalf of imperial court.

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Zamindars

Question 36

Major commercial city of West African civilization. Noted center of Islamic scholarship and education in 16th century.

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Timbuktu

Question 37

1405 Chinese admiral who commanded huge fleets of ships in the Indian Ocean to add to tribute system. No lasting impact.

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Zheng He

Question 38

Short poetic volume penned by Laozi. The foundational text of Daoism emphasizing peace, harmony, and nature.

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Daodejing

Question 39

Islamic understanding seeking interior life, to tame the ego, and achieve spiritual union with Allah.

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Sufism

Question 40

1919 treaty that officially ended World War I. Penalties it placed on Germany are considered a cause of World War II.

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Treaty of Versailles

Question 41

Massive Chinese rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty that devastated much of the country 1850-1864.

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Taiping Rebellion

Question 42

A European understanding of empire that emphasized Europeans’ duty to “civilize inferior races."

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Paternalism/“civilizing mission”

Question 43

Occurred over the span of thirteen days. Major standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union involving nuclear weapons.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 44

Giant network of transatlantic communication, migration, trade, and the transfer of diseases, plants, and animals.

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Columbian exchange

Question 45

The political party led by Mahatma Gandhi that succeeded in bringing about Indian independence from Britain in 1947.

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Indian National Congress (INC)

Question 46

Alliance formed in 1957 by 6 Western European countries dedicated to developing common trade policies/reduced tariffs.

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European Economic Community/European Union

Question 47

Christian movement challenging church authority/salvation by faith alone. Variety of political/economic/social tension.

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Protestant Reformation

Question 48

Leader of the early women’s rights movement in the U.S. Was at the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 49

Political takeover of Japan by young samurai. Power to the young emperor. Drew upon the modern West.

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Meiji Restoration

Question 50

Name of the routes linking interior West Africa to the Mediterranean and North African world.

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Trans-Saharan Trading Network (Sand Roads)

Question 51

Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Mongol Yuan dynasty. Noted for return to traditional Chinese ways. Fell to Manchus.

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Ming dynasty

Question 52

Major Islamic state of West Africa that formed in the second half of the fifteenth century.

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Songhay Empire

Question 53

Imperial territories in which Europeans settled permanently in substantial numbers.

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Settler colonies

Question 54

"Rebirth” of classical learning. Rediscovery of Greek/ Roman learning plus major developments in art, and secularism.

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European Renaissance

Question 55

First time an Asian country defeated a European power in battle. Fought over rival ambitions in Korea and Manchuria.

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Russo-Japanese War

Question 56

Movements to re-order Muslim societies in accord with particular and literal understandings of the Quran and Sharia.

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Islamic radicalism

Question 57

Soviet leader after Stalin who secretly deployed nuclear-tipped Soviet missiles to Cuba.

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Nikita Khrushchev

Question 58

System in which contracts consider workers personal property of their master. The contract could be sold or inherited.

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Indentured servitude

Question 59

System of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union.

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Gulag system

Question 60

Incan labor service requiring citizens to contribute some kind of work to the state.

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Mit'a system

Question 61

A political system formerly imposed in South Africa that instilled racial segregation.

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Apartheid in South Africa

Question 62

The domestication of plants and animals, which led to farming and pastoral societies.

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Agricultural Revolution

Question 63

Slave rebellion in the British West Indies. Attacked many plantations. Suppressed but helped sway opinions on slavery.

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Great Jamaica Revolt

Question 64

Leader of a Native American rebellion in Peru in the early 1780s, claiming the last Inca emperor as an ancestor.

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Tupac Amaru II

AP World Funcards 2024-2025

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AP World Funcards 2024-2025

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