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AP World History

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1. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






2. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres






3. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)






4. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them






5. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.






6. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon






7. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.






8. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






9. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century






10. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire






11. 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)






12. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.






13. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).






14. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.






15. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)






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






17. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.






18. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great






19. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.






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






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






22. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism






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






24. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.






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






26. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






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






28. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.






29. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical






30. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's






31. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)






32. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.






33. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.






34. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.






35. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)






36. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.






37. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.






38. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)






39. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.






40. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.

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41. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)






42. The founder of Buddhism






43. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.






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






45. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.






46. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons






47. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.






48. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.






49. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






50. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)