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AP World History

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1. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres






2. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia






3. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.






4. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.






5. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt






6. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC






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






8. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)






9. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl






10. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.






11. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.






12. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.






13. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.






14. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.






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






16. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.






17. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea






18. 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.






19. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities - headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806.






20. The most significant Mesoamerican city.






21. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.






22. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.






23. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.






24. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.






25. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)






26. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






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. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)






29. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)






30. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small






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






32. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






33. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)






34. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.






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






36. 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.






37. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.






38. Date: Korean War starts






39. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)






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






41. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.






42. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.






43. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






44. 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.






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






47. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC






48. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.






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






50. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people







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