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AP World History

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1. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death






2. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.






3. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures






4. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.






5. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.






6. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.






7. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.






8. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.






9. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






10. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)






11. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)






12. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






13. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities






14. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.






15. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.






16. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.






17. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






18. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.






19. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog






20. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.






21. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.






22. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.






23. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis






24. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)






25. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.






26. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.






27. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.






28. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.






29. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)






30. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.






31. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






32. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






33. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.






34. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.






35. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.






36. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.






37. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them






38. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)






39. Date: French Revolution begins






40. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source






41. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.






42. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.






43. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.






44. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America






45. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






46. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.






47. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.






48. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.






49. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety - fulfill vows - or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions - such as the Muslim journey to Mecca.






50. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area







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