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AP World History

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1. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.






2. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.






3. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.






4. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






5. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana






6. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.






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






8. 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.






9. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.






10. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India






11. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.






12. '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.






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






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






15. Spanish estates that were often plantations






16. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.






17. 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.






18. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.






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






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






21. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)






22. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.






23. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c






24. 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.






25. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






26. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.






27. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.






28. 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






29. Date: 9/11 Attacks






30. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.






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






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






33. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico






34. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)






35. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights






36. German leader of the Nazi Party






37. The most significant Mesoamerican city.






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






39. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.






40. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights






41. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift






42. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






43. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.






44. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)






45. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)






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






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






48. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.






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






50. 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.