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AP World History

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1. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)






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






3. System of government in which all 'citizens' (however defined) have equal political and legal rights - privileges - and protections - as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Demographic Transition -A change in th






4. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.






5. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.






6. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.






7. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)






8. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)






9. 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.






10. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top






11. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.






12. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.






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






14. 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.






15. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.






16. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically






17. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt






18. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th






19. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






20. 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.






21. Date: end of WWII






22. 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.






23. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.






24. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.






25. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






26. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.






27. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






28. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.






29. 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.






30. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.






31. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






32. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.






33. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.






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






35. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.






36. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.






37. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.






38. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)






39. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.






40. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.






41. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)






42. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.






43. Date: Korean War starts






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






45. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)






46. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.






47. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)






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






49. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism






50. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.