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AP World History

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






2. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.






3. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another






4. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.






5. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.






6. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






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






8. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.






9. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.






10. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






11. 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.






12. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam






13. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun






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






15. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o






16. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part






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. 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.






19. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.

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20. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source






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






22. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism






23. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis






24. 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.






25. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva






26. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.






27. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI






28. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)






29. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's






30. Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor - but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.






31. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520






32. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.






33. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)






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






35. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.






36. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)






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






38. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age






39. 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)






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






41. 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






42. 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.






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






44. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)






45. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.






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






47. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953






48. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.






49. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.






50. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime