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AP World History

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1. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.






2. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money






3. 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.






4. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)






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






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






7. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.






8. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)






9. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.






10. 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.






11. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.






12. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.






13. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






14. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






15. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.






16. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.






17. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented






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






19. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.






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






21. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






22. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)






23. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great






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






25. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c






26. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.






27. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.






28. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity






29. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.






30. Date: 9/11 Attacks






31. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.






32. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.






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






34. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.






35. The central text of Daoism.






36. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.






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






38. The cycle of life in Hinduism






39. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.






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






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






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






43. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






44. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.






45. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.






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






47. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.






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






49. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena






50. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses