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AP World History

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1. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another






2. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.






3. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics






4. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.






5. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.






6. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system






7. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)






8. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






9. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.






10. German leader of the Nazi Party






11. 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.






12. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.






13. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi






14. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed






15. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






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






17. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.






18. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






19. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.






20. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)






21. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate






22. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.






23. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.






24. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






25. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.






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






27. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.






28. Russian prison camp for political prisoners






29. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan






30. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.






31. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.






32. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






33. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.






34. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.






35. Date: Korean War starts






36. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.






37. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






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






39. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.






40. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






41. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.






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






43. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire






44. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon






45. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood






46. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome






47. 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.






48. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.






49. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.






50. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members