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AP World History

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1. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)






2. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)






3. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.






4. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan






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






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






7. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






8. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.






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






10. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






11. 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.






12. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






13. 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.






14. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a






15. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






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






17. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.






18. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire






19. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)






20. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.






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






22. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.






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






24. 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






25. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






26. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.






27. 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.






28. English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame - a machine that - with minimal human supervision - could spin several threads at onc






29. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S






30. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.






31. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)






32. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.






33. 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.






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






35. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






36. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.






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






38. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism






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






40. The cycle of life in Hinduism






41. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity






42. 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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






47. Date: Stock Market Crash






48. 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.






49. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states






50. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.