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AP World History

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1. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)






2. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.






3. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.






4. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t






5. 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.






6. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






7. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir






8. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)






9. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.






10. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.






11. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)






12. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain






13. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.






14. 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.






15. The cycle of life in Hinduism






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






17. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.






18. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.






19. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)






20. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga






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






22. Date: Korean War starts






23. 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.






24. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor






25. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






26. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.






27. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.






28. 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.






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






30. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights






31. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






32. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the






33. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






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






35. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)






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






37. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)






38. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953






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






40. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an






41. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.






42. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.






43. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood






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






45. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)






46. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.






47. Date: French Revolution begins






48. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)






49. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.






50. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations