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AP World History

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






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






3. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.






4. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.






5. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name






6. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.






7. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.






8. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






9. 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.






10. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.






11. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i






12. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.






13. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics






14. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.






15. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






16. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






17. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.






18. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')






19. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






20. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.






21. Chinese man who led the revolution against the Manchu Dynasty.






22. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)






23. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.






24. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan






25. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)






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






27. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)






28. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.






29. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.






30. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires






31. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.






32. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan






33. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam






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






35. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.






36. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S






37. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






38. 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.






39. 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.)






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






41. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).






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






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






44. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o






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






46. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






47. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma






48. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.






49. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.






50. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.