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AP World History

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1. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.






2. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.






3. 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.






4. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept






5. 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






6. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






11. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.






12. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.






13. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.






14. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.






15. 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






16. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.






17. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.






18. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution






19. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.






20. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






21. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)






22. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun






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






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






25. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.






26. 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)






27. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






28. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.






29. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






30. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.






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






32. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






33. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.






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






35. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.






36. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






37. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d






38. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.






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






40. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.






41. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.






42. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical






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






44. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






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






46. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.






47. 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.






48. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.






49. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






50. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)