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AP World History

Subjects : history, ap, bvat
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1. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.






2. 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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3. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana






4. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)






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






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






7. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.






8. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population






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






10. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)






11. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire






12. 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.






13. 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






14. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)






15. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






16. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.






17. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits






18. 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






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






20. 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)






21. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.






22. 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.






23. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953






24. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.






25. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe






26. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.






27. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.






28. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.






29. 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.






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






31. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c






32. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






33. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.






34. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana






35. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.






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






37. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






38. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source






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






40. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.






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






42. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.






43. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi






44. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






45. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution






46. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)






47. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor






48. Date: end of WWII






49. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor






50. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.