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AP World History

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1. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil






2. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)






3. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate






4. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.






5. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






6. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small






7. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)






8. 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






9. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






10. 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.






11. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)






12. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.






13. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.






14. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.






15. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)






16. 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.






17. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)






18. 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.






19. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.






20. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.






21. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.






22. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






23. 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






24. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.






25. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.






26. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.






27. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed






28. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.






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






30. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.






31. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.






32. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.






33. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.






34. 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.






35. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.






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






37. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736






38. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)






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






40. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)






41. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.






42. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.






43. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility






44. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.






45. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations






46. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.






47. Conflict between Athens and Sparta






48. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A






49. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.






50. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.

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