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AP World History

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1. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.






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






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






4. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.






5. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.






6. 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.






7. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)






8. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.






9. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.






10. 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.






11. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.






12. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.






13. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.






14. 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.






15. 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.






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






17. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.






18. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.






19. Spanish estates that were often plantations






20. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.






21. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.






22. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.






23. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)






24. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism






25. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






26. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia






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






28. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.






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






30. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.






31. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')






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






33. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)






34. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.






35. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.






36. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






37. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.






38. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)






39. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical






40. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.






41. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.






42. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)






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






44. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.






45. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.






46. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






47. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.






48. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.






49. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.






50. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.