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AP World History

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1. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.






2. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.






3. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.






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






5. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






6. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.






7. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.






8. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution






9. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.






10. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it






11. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.






12. 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.






13. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






14. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)






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






16. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept






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






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






19. Conflict between Athens and Sparta






20. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.






21. 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.






22. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.






23. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.






24. 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.






25. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.






26. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






27. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.






28. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'






29. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people






30. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.






31. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






32. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI






33. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.






34. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war






35. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






36. 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.






37. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.






38. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.






39. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian






40. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.






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






42. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.






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






44. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.






45. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)






46. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)






47. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.






48. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






49. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)






50. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.