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AP World History

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






2. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China






3. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.






4. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)






5. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).






6. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan






7. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.

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8. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.






9. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.






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






11. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire






12. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.






13. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu






14. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.






15. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.






16. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.






17. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.






18. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.






19. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.






20. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.






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






22. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






23. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri






24. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.






25. 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.






26. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.






27. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.






28. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.






29. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another






33. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights






34. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)






35. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.






36. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.






37. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba






38. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






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






40. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.






41. 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.






42. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.






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






44. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o






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






46. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana






47. 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.






48. The most significant Mesoamerican city.






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. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.