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AP World History

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1. 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






2. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.






3. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.






4. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)






5. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.






6. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.






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






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






9. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt






10. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon






11. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.






12. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market






13. 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.






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






15. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.






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






17. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






18. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)






19. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.






20. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600






21. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name






22. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe






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






24. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.






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






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






27. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.






28. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.






29. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.






30. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)






31. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)






32. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's






33. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.






34. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.






35. 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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36. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.






37. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder






38. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






39. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII






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






41. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.






42. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.






43. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog






44. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.






45. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.






46. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)






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






48. Date: 9/11 Attacks






49. 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.






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