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AP World History

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1. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.






2. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics






3. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality






4. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.






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






6. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.






7. 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.






8. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.






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






10. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.






11. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.






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






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






14. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






15. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






16. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian






17. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire






18. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them






19. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.






20. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.






21. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






22. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.






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






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






25. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






26. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.






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






28. 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.






29. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.






30. 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.






31. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small






32. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.






33. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.






34. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953






35. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.






36. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.






37. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.






38. 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.






39. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.






40. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






41. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)






42. 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.






43. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o






44. 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)






45. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.






46. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






47. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)






48. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.






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






50. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.