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AP World History

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1. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.






2. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.






3. 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






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






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






6. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.






7. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






8. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.






14. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia






15. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice






16. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.






17. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures






18. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.






19. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






20. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British






21. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.






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






23. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.






24. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.






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






26. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics






27. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.






28. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)






29. 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.






30. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)






31. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.






32. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






33. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar






34. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.






35. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.






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






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






38. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.






39. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






40. 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.






41. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution






42. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests






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






44. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century






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






46. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members






47. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.






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






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






50. 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.