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AP World History

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.






10. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.






11. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British






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






13. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.






14. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)






15. The cycle of life in Hinduism






16. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.






17. The central text of Daoism.






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






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






20. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.






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






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






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






24. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.






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






26. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






27. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.






28. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.






29. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.






30. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)






31. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.






32. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.






33. 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.






34. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)






35. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)






36. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)






37. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.






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






39. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.






40. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.






41. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






42. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.






43. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.






44. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics






45. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.






46. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.






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






48. Date: Korean War starts






49. Associations of businessmen and producers






50. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.