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AP World History

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1. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.






2. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)






3. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.






4. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav






5. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.






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






7. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






8. Russian prison camp for political prisoners






9. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.






10. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics






11. Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the in these cities - foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.






12. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations






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






14. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.






15. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






16. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th






17. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






18. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.






19. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.






20. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)






21. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a






22. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






23. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India






24. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)






25. 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






26. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.






27. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






28. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.






29. 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.






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






31. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






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






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






34. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.






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






36. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.






37. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.






38. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.






39. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






40. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.






41. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)






42. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






43. 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






44. 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.






45. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)






46. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift






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






48. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures






49. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






50. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.