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AP World History

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






2. 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






3. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)






4. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities - headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806.






5. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.

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






7. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)






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






9. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam






10. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.






11. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states






12. 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)






13. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)






14. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.






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






16. 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






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






18. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.






19. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.






20. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






21. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.






22. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)






23. 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.






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






25. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)






26. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)






27. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.






28. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






29. The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region.






30. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.






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






32. The founder of Buddhism






33. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S






34. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the






35. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.






36. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear






37. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.






38. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.






39. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.






40. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






41. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






42. 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.






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






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






45. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.






46. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo






47. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






48. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).






49. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt






50. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.