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AP World History

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1. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir






2. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.






3. 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.






4. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.






5. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.






6. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)






7. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)






8. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)






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






10. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.






11. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






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






13. Date: independence & partition of India






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






15. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.






16. 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






17. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility






18. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people






19. The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region.






20. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.






21. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.






22. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






23. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






24. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.






25. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)






26. 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.






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






28. Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.






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






30. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.






31. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.






32. '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.






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






34. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






35. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.






36. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.






37. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






38. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.






39. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami






40. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China






41. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.






42. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.






43. 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.)






44. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations






45. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt






46. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.






47. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.






48. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






49. System of government in which all 'citizens' (however defined) have equal political and legal rights - privileges - and protections - as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Demographic Transition -A change in th






50. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)