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AP World History

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1. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.






2. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.






3. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.






4. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.






5. 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






6. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)






7. 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






8. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.






9. 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.






10. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.






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






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






13. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






14. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).






15. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.






16. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)






17. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)






18. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






19. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






20. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.






21. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.






22. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.






23. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.






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






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






26. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.






27. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.






28. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis






29. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian






30. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.






31. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.






32. 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






33. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area






37. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.






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






39. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






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






41. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.






42. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.






43. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.






44. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






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. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.






47. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d






48. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.






49. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.






50. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.






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