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AP World History

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1. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)






2. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.






3. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the






4. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.






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






6. The cycle of life in Hinduism






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






8. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh






9. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach






10. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.






11. 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).






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






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






14. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.






15. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.






16. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.






17. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.






18. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.






19. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America






20. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






21. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.






22. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.






23. 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






24. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.






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






26. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)






27. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)






28. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






29. 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.






30. 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






31. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.






32. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.






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






34. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).






35. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil






36. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs






37. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations






38. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.






39. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.






40. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)






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






42. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear






43. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.






44. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome






45. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.






46. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)






47. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)






48. The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia - where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community.






49. A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native America






50. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.