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AP World History

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1. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






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






3. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.






4. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.






5. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.






6. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






7. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.






8. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.






9. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.






10. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.






11. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.






12. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.






13. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations






14. 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.






15. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)






16. 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






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






18. 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.






19. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.






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






21. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.






22. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir






23. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






24. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')






25. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.






26. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons






27. 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)






28. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.

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






30. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.






31. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)






32. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.






33. The cycle of life in Hinduism






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






35. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.






36. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.






37. Date: French Revolution begins






38. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.






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






40. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.






41. 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.






42. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.






43. 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.






44. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.






45. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.






46. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil






47. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






48. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century






49. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.






50. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented