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AP World History

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1. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






2. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)






3. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.






4. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.






5. 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.






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






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






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






9. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.






10. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.






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






12. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.






13. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor






14. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu






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






16. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.






17. 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






18. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno






19. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






20. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.






21. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt






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






23. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety - fulfill vows - or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions - such as the Muslim journey to Mecca.






24. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.






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






26. 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






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






28. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.






29. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






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






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






32. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.






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






34. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o






35. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






36. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.






37. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)






38. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.






39. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.






40. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members






41. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.






42. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)






43. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry






44. 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.






45. 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)






46. German leader of the Nazi Party






47. 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.






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






49. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.






50. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.