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AP World History

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1. 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.






2. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)






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. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god






5. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)






6. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)






7. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area






8. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.






9. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.






10. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.






11. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.






12. The cycle of life in Hinduism






13. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.






14. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran






15. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.






16. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.






17. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.






18. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.






19. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.






20. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)






21. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t






22. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.






23. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.






24. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






25. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state






26. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






27. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.






28. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.






29. 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.






30. 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






31. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)






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






33. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.






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






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






36. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






37. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.






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 central text of Daoism.






40. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.






41. 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.






42. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical






43. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog






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






45. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)






46. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people






47. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)






48. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.






49. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh






50. 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.