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AP World History

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1. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.






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






3. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






4. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)






5. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.






6. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.






7. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.






8. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.






9. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.






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






11. Conflict between Athens and Sparta






12. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.






13. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.






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






15. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.






16. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)






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






18. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.






19. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.






20. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.






21. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC






22. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.






23. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)






24. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)






25. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.






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






27. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate






28. 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.






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






30. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.






31. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.






32. 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






33. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969






34. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.






35. 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.






36. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)






37. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people






38. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.






39. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.






40. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.






41. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.






42. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe






43. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.






44. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the






45. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.






46. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.






47. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.






48. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.






49. Date: independence & partition of India






50. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)