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AP World History

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1. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th






2. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.






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






4. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.






5. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir






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






7. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






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






9. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






10. Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste - and Akbar I married a Rajput princess.






11. 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.






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






13. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.






14. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.






15. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.






16. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age






17. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.






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






19. 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.






20. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt






21. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.






22. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.






23. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force






24. 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






25. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)






26. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






27. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.






28. Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws - inscribed on a black stone pillar - illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.






29. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






30. 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.






31. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.






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






33. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.






34. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






35. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.






36. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's






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






38. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.






39. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.






40. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)






41. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.






42. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.






43. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood






44. 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.)






45. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.






46. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.






47. 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)






48. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.






49. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.






50. 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.