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AP World History

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1. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain






2. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.






3. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.






4. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)






5. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.






6. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.






7. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600






8. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






9. 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.






10. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.






11. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.






12. 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)






13. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.






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






15. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe






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






17. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.






18. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






19. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






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






21. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.






22. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)






23. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.






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






25. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.






26. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.






27. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')






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






29. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






30. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






31. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)






32. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian






33. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.






34. 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.






35. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.






36. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.






37. 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.






38. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)






39. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)






40. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)






41. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)






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






43. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death






44. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.






45. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC






46. 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.






47. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.






48. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)






49. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.






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