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AP World History

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1. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.






2. 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.






3. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.






4. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.






5. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.






6. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






7. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.






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






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






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






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






12. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.






13. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.






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






15. 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.






16. An adherent of the Islamic religion.






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






18. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.






19. 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.






20. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)






21. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)






22. English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame - a machine that - with minimal human supervision - could spin several threads at onc






23. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)






24. 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






25. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.






26. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented






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






28. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






29. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.






30. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)






31. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.






32. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu






33. Branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Mainly found in Iran and a small part of Iraq. It is the state religion of Iran. A member of this group is called a Shi'ite.

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34. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America






35. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).






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






37. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






38. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.






39. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.






40. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)






41. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.






42. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.

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43. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.






44. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).






45. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






46. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)






47. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.






48. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.






49. 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.






50. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.