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AP World History

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1. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.






2. Date: 9/11 Attacks






3. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'






4. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.






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






6. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t






7. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.






8. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.






9. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.






10. 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)






11. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.






12. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba






13. Political units in India in the years 700-600 BC. They are the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India. They are the earliest kingdoms set up by the Indo-Aryans migrants to India.






14. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top






15. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift






16. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.






17. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.






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






19. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres






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






21. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.






22. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC






23. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva






24. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.






25. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.






26. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)






27. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.






28. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.






29. The cycle of life in Hinduism






30. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






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






32. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






33. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).






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






35. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.






36. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.






37. 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.






38. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany






39. 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.






40. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.






41. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate






42. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE






43. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.






44. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people






45. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.






46. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.






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






48. 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.






49. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.






50. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe







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