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AP World History

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1. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe






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






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






4. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






5. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.






6. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






7. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.






8. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.






9. 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.






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






11. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.






12. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.






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






17. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.






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






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






20. 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.






21. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby






22. 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.






23. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.






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






25. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.






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






27. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)






28. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.






29. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.






30. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens






31. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.






32. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)






33. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population






34. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.






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






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






37. Date: French Revolution begins






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






39. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism






40. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.






41. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed






42. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.






43. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






44. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o






45. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.






46. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).






47. 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)






48. 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.






49. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.






50. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.