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AP World History

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1. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.






2. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.






3. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.






4. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.






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






6. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)






7. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






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






9. Chinese man who led the revolution against the Manchu Dynasty.






10. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.






11. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.






12. 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.






13. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.






14. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.






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






16. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.






17. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)






18. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'






19. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)






20. 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.






21. 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






22. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.






23. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)






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






25. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.






26. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)






27. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's






28. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.






29. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)






30. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British






31. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






32. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.






33. 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.






34. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






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






36. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.






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






38. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice






39. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area






40. 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.






41. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry






42. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






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






44. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.






45. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu






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






47. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.






48. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.






49. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






50. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.