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AP World History

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1. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.






2. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences






3. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.






4. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.






5. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)






6. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.






7. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry






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






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






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






11. The most significant Mesoamerican city.






12. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.






13. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl






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






15. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.






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






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






18. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after






19. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area






20. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.






21. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)






22. 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)






23. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.






24. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.






25. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war






26. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.






27. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred






28. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th






29. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.






30. 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.






31. Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor - but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.






32. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.






33. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.






34. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.






35. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.






36. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.






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






38. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






39. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.






40. Date: Stock Market Crash






41. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.






42. 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






43. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force






44. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America






45. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people






46. 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.






47. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system






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






49. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis






50. 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.