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AP World History

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1. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).






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






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






4. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






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






6. Date: independence & partition of India






7. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.






8. 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.






9. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.






10. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






11. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.






12. 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.






13. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri






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






15. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.






16. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.






17. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.






18. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.






19. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






20. 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.






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






22. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)






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






24. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






25. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






26. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.






27. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.






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






29. 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






30. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an






31. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.






32. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.






33. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia






34. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.






35. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






36. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia






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






38. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.






39. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.






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






41. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India






42. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.






43. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia






44. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.






45. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






46. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire






47. 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.






48. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.






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






50. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.