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AP World History

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






2. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept






3. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






4. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)






5. 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.






6. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.






7. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






8. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.






9. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.






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






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






12. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder






13. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav






14. 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.






15. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.






16. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






17. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China






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






19. 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






20. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.






21. 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.






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






23. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution






24. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha






25. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.






26. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






27. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.






28. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)






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






30. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.






31. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.






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






33. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.






34. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.






35. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






36. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.






37. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia






38. 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






39. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969






40. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736






41. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.






42. Date: French Revolution begins






43. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.






44. 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.






45. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






46. 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






47. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.






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






49. '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.






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