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AP World History

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1. 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.






2. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.






3. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran






4. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.






5. 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






6. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.






7. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






8. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.






9. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






10. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.






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






12. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire






13. Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the in these cities - foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.






14. 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.






15. 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)






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






21. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






22. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI






23. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.






24. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.






25. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.






26. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)






27. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.






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






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. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.






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






32. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






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






34. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.






35. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches






36. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.






37. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.






38. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money






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






40. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.






41. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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






45. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.






46. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.






47. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i






48. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.






49. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.






50. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia