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AP World History

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1. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.






2. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.






3. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.






4. 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.






5. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.






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






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






8. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.

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9. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






10. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.






11. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a






12. 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






13. 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).






14. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.






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






16. German leader of the Nazi Party






17. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






18. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.






19. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.






20. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.






21. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.






22. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.






23. 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






24. Date: Korean War starts






25. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.






26. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.






27. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






28. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.






29. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami






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






31. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun






32. 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.






33. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.






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






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






36. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.






37. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.






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






39. An adherent of the Islamic religion.






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






41. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)






42. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.






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






44. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')






45. 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.)






46. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.






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






48. 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






49. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






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







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