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AP World History

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1. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people






2. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.






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






4. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






5. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.






6. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)






7. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.






8. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






9. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)






10. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.






11. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses






12. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






13. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire






14. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.






15. Date: French Revolution begins






16. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an






17. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.






18. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia






19. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.






20. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.






21. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.






22. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.






23. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.






24. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically






25. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)






26. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.






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. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)






29. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.






30. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood






31. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.






32. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.






33. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.






34. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.






35. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.






36. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.






37. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution






38. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear






39. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.






40. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age






41. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.






42. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.






43. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.






44. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.






45. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights






46. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






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






48. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.






49. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.






50. 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)