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AP World History

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






2. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.






3. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.






4. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)






5. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






6. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






7. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very






8. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.






9. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt






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






11. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.






12. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.






13. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.






14. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.






15. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.






16. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.






17. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.






18. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.






19. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China






20. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')






21. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US






22. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana






23. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.






24. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






25. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.






26. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.






27. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent






28. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')






29. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.






30. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.






31. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.






32. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)






33. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.






34. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)






35. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.






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






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






38. 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.






39. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.






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






41. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.






42. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.






43. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.






44. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.






45. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.






46. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.






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






48. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.






49. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)






50. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king