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AP World History

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1. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






2. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.






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






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






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






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






7. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)






8. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)






9. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.






10. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.






11. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)






12. Associations of businessmen and producers






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






14. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.






15. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.






16. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






17. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.






18. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)






19. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.






20. 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.






21. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.






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






23. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.






24. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






25. 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






26. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.






27. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons






28. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






29. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences






30. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






31. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






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






33. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)






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






35. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






36. 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.






37. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.






38. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)






39. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.






40. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.






41. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.






42. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the






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






44. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.






45. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






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






47. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






48. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.






49. 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.






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