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AP World History

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1. The cycle of life in Hinduism






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.






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






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






7. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha






8. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.






9. 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.






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






11. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)






12. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years






13. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.






14. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






15. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.






16. 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.






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






18. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.






19. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)






20. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






21. 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






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






23. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






24. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.






25. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market






26. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)






27. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






28. 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






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






30. 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






31. 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






32. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift






33. 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.






34. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






35. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights






36. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon






37. A French Protestant






38. 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.






39. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.






40. Date: French Revolution begins






41. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)






42. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept






43. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu






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






45. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.






46. 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






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. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')






49. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.






50. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.