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AP World History

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1. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.






2. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.






3. 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.






4. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests






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. 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.






7. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)






8. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






9. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.






10. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.






11. 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






12. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.






13. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.






14. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.






15. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






16. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).






17. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.






18. 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.






19. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.






20. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.






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






22. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






23. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.






24. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)






25. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.






26. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.






27. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.






28. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.






29. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia






30. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.






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






32. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.






33. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)






34. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.






35. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)






36. 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.






37. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






38. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav






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






40. 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.






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






42. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great






43. 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).






44. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.






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






46. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.






47. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.






48. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)






49. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.






50. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.