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AP World History

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1. 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).






2. 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.






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






4. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire






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






6. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






7. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)






8. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.






9. 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.






10. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.






11. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.






12. The central text of Daoism.






13. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.






14. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)






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






16. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






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






18. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






19. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.






20. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.






21. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.






22. 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






23. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.






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






25. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






26. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






27. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.






28. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia






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






30. 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.






31. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)






32. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality






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






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






35. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).






36. 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)






37. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)






38. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.






39. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon






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






41. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.






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






43. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.






44. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.






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






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






47. 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.






48. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.






49. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.






50. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)