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AP World History

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1. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.






2. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.






3. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.






4. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.






5. 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.






6. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.






7. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)






8. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.






9. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.






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






11. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan






12. Spanish estates that were often plantations






13. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.






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






15. 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.






16. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.






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






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






19. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality






20. 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.






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






22. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very






23. 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.






24. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.






25. 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






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






27. 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.






28. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.






29. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.






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






31. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






32. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.






33. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.






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






35. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






36. 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.






37. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)






38. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical






39. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.






40. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.






41. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






42. The central text of Daoism.






43. 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.






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






45. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






46. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.






47. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.






48. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)






49. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.

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50. 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