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AP World History

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1. 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.






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






3. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights






4. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






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






6. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.






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






8. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.






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






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






11. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.






12. 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






13. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.






14. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)






15. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.






16. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).






17. Branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Mainly found in Iran and a small part of Iraq. It is the state religion of Iran. A member of this group is called a Shi'ite.

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18. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.






19. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.






20. 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.






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






22. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.






23. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






24. 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)






25. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).






26. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.






27. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution






28. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






29. 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.






30. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.






31. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests






32. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520






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






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






35. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.






36. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.






37. 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.






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






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






40. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.






41. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.






42. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






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






44. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.






45. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.






46. Russian prison camp for political prisoners






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






48. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war






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






50. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.