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AP World History

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






2. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S






3. 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






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






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






6. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.






7. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis






8. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.






9. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






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






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






12. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.






13. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.






14. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them






15. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches






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






17. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






18. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.






19. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.






20. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed






21. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god






22. 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.






23. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.






24. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.

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25. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.






26. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities






27. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)






28. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.






29. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.






30. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)






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






32. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno






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






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






35. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.






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






37. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)






38. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.






39. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.






40. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.






41. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.






42. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.






43. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US






44. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.






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






46. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.






47. The English monarch who was beheaded by Puritans (see English Civil War) who then established their own short-lived government ruled by Oliver Cromwell (Mid 1600s).






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






49. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






50. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)