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AP World History

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1. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.






2. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states






3. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.






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






5. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico






6. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.






7. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites






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






9. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)






10. 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






11. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.






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






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






14. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)






15. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.






16. 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.






17. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)






18. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'






19. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.






20. 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.






21. '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.






22. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.






23. 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






24. 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)






25. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.






32. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)






33. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people






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






35. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.






36. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.






37. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force






38. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)






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






40. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.






41. 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






42. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.






43. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.






44. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i






45. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.






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






47. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






48. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's






49. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.






50. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.







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