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AP World History

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1. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






2. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.






3. 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






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






5. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






6. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.






7. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)






8. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






9. German leader of the Nazi Party






10. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.






11. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.






12. 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






13. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.






14. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity






15. Date: Korean War starts






16. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.






17. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.






18. 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.






19. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






20. 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.






21. 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






22. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)






23. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.






24. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)






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






26. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.






27. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.






28. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC






29. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.






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






31. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.






32. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami






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






34. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.






35. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.






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






37. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)






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






39. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing






40. 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






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






42. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.






43. 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.






44. Associations of businessmen and producers






45. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.






46. 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.






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






48. System of government in which all 'citizens' (however defined) have equal political and legal rights - privileges - and protections - as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Demographic Transition -A change in th






49. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)






50. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.