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AP World History

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1. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)






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






3. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.






4. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.






5. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.






6. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')






7. German leader of the Nazi Party






8. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI






9. 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






10. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






11. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.






12. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.






13. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.






14. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)






15. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.






16. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.






17. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






18. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






19. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.






20. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.






21. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.






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






23. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.






24. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after






25. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






26. 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.






27. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.






28. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.






29. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.






30. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






31. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.






32. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






33. 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.






34. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






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






36. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.






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






38. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.






39. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea






40. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.






41. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very






42. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.






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






44. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno






45. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






46. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






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






48. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






49. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






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