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AP World History

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






2. 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.






3. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






4. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.






5. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.






6. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.






7. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.






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






9. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.






10. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






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






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






13. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






14. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights






15. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.






16. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.






17. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.






18. The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia - where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community.






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






20. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')






21. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






22. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






23. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.






24. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire






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






26. System of government in which all 'citizens' (however defined) have equal political and legal rights - privileges - and protections - as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Demographic Transition -A change in th






27. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.






28. 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.






29. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.






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






31. 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.






32. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death






33. 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






34. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.






35. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.






36. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences






37. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')






38. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.






39. 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.






40. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.






41. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE






42. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.






43. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires






44. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire






45. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the






46. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.






47. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.






48. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate






49. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i






50. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.