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AP World History

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1. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.






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






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






8. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.






9. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.






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






11. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states






12. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.






13. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)






14. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.






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






16. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.






17. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.






18. 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.






19. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.






20. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)






27. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.






28. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism






29. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.






30. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)






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






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






33. 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






34. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.






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






36. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.






37. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






38. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






39. 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.






40. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state






41. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.






42. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)






43. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.






44. 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.






45. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






46. 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.






47. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.






48. The founder of Buddhism






49. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.






50. 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