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AP World History

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1. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China






2. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.






3. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.






4. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






5. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.






6. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.






7. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do






8. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century






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






10. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top






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






12. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.






13. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)






17. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






18. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.






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






20. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.






21. 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.






22. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.






23. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)






24. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.






25. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.






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






27. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.






28. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.






29. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.






30. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).






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






32. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.






33. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.






34. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






35. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)






36. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.






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






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






39. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.






40. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.






41. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






42. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.






43. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






44. 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






45. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.






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






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






48. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small






49. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)






50. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)