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AP World History

Subjects : history, ap, bvat
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1. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them






2. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences






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






4. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.






5. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






6. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.






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






8. 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.






9. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi






10. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






11. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.






12. A French Protestant






13. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.






14. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






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






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






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






18. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.






19. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.






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






21. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)






22. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






23. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name






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






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






26. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.






27. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part






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






29. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.






30. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis






31. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.






32. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)






33. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






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






35. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.






36. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.






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






38. 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.






39. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.






40. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.






41. 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.






42. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736






43. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor






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






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






46. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people






47. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.






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






49. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.






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