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AP World History

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1. An adherent of the Islamic religion.






2. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany






3. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.






4. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.






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






6. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.






7. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






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






9. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.






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






11. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.






12. 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.






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






14. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.






15. 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.






16. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism






17. 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.






18. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






19. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.






20. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






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






22. 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.






23. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.






24. 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.






25. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969






26. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs






27. 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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28. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.






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






30. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d






31. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.






32. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.






33. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.






34. The central text of Daoism.






35. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.






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






37. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.






38. 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.






39. Russian prison camp for political prisoners






40. Date: independence & partition of India






41. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.






42. 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.






43. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.






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






45. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.






46. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






47. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis






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






49. The founder of Buddhism






50. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.







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