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AP World History

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1. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.

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






3. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.






4. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.






5. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.






9. 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)






10. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.






11. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar






12. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)






13. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.






14. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






15. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






16. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.






17. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites






18. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.






19. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.






20. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.






21. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.






22. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






23. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.






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






25. Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws - inscribed on a black stone pillar - illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.






26. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






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






28. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.






29. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)






30. Date: Stock Market Crash






31. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.






32. 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.






33. 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






34. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






35. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.






36. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.






37. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






38. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






39. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.






40. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






41. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






42. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.






43. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby






44. Conflict between Athens and Sparta






45. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.






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






47. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt






48. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.






49. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.






50. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.