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AP World History

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1. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.






2. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.






3. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.






4. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.






5. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.






6. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses






7. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach






8. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.






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






10. 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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11. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.






12. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.






13. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th






14. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.






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






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






18. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war






19. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.






20. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu






21. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena






22. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.






23. An adherent of the Islamic religion.






24. 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.






25. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.






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






27. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.






28. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma






29. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.






30. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)






31. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.






35. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.






36. 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.






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






38. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






39. Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.






40. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.






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






42. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.






43. 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.






44. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.






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






46. 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.






47. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953






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






49. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






50. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.

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