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AP World History

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






2. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.






3. Date: Stock Market Crash






4. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)






5. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt






6. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






7. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)






8. 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






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






10. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years






11. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






12. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.






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






14. 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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15. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do






16. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics






17. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.






18. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.






19. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)






20. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)






21. The most significant Mesoamerican city.






22. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






23. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.






24. 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.






25. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices






26. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.






27. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire






28. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.






29. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar






30. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.






31. 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.






32. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






33. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.






34. 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.






35. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.






36. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






37. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses






38. 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






39. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)






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






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






42. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder






43. An adherent of the Islamic religion.






44. 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






45. 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.






46. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.






47. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






48. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry






49. 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).






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