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AP World History

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






2. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.






3. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon






4. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.






5. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)






6. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.






7. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil






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






9. German leader of the Nazi Party






10. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population






11. 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.






12. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






13. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.






14. A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native America






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






16. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)






17. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.






18. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu






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






20. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality






21. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires






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






23. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






24. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death






25. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an






26. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami






27. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.






28. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.






29. 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






30. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.






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






32. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.






33. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.






34. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.






35. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






36. 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






37. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.






38. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor






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






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






41. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany






42. 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.






43. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.






44. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.






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






46. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system






47. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






48. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).






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






50. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty