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AP World History

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1. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.






2. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)






3. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)






4. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.






5. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.






6. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.






7. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






8. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






9. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics






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






11. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






12. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.






13. 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.






14. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)






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






16. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






17. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.






18. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.






19. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.






20. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.






21. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.






22. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.






23. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.






24. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.






25. '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.






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






27. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520






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






29. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences






30. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.






31. 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.)






32. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)






33. Branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Mainly found in Iran and a small part of Iraq. It is the state religion of Iran. A member of this group is called a Shi'ite.

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34. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.






35. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.






36. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.






37. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d






38. Associations of businessmen and producers






39. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.






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






41. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.






42. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).






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






44. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.






45. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






46. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.






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






48. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






49. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.






50. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits