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AP World History

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1. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva






2. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII






3. 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.






4. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.






5. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.






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






7. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.






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






9. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.






10. 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.






11. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav






12. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.






13. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.






14. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.






15. 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.






16. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.






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






18. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o






19. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.






20. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.






21. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.






22. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.






23. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






24. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)






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






26. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






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






28. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






29. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.






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






31. 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.






32. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.






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






34. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh






35. 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.






36. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.






37. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia






38. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity






39. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






40. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.






41. 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.






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






43. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.






44. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.






45. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures






46. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.






47. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America






48. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.






49. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.






50. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India