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AP World History

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1. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






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






3. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.






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






5. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.






6. Date: independence & partition of India






7. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices






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






9. 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.






10. Spanish estates that were often plantations






11. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






12. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire






13. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.






14. 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.






15. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)






16. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities - headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806.






17. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.






18. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.






19. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift






20. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)






21. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'






22. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






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






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






25. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






26. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.






27. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.






28. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.






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






30. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.






31. '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.






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






33. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.






34. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.






35. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it






36. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)






37. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.






38. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia






39. 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.






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






41. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.






42. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






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






44. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire






45. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics






46. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI






47. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)






48. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.






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






50. 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.