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AP World History

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1. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them






2. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate






3. 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.






4. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).






5. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.






6. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.






7. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.






8. A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire - now known as Istanbul






9. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)






10. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.






11. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






12. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism






13. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations






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






15. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.






16. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.






17. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures






18. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept






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






20. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.






21. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.






22. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.






23. 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.






24. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.






25. Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture.






26. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami






27. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)






28. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)






29. 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.






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






31. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.






32. Russian prison camp for political prisoners






33. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.






34. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.






35. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities






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






37. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo






38. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.






39. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).






40. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.






41. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after






42. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






43. 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.






44. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.






45. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.






46. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.






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






48. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






49. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.






50. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.