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AP World History

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1. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






2. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.






3. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia






4. 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.






5. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.






6. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.






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






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






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






10. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.






11. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






12. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






13. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.






14. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.






15. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.






16. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great






17. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






18. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.






19. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.






20. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.






21. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.






22. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh






23. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam






24. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)






25. 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.






26. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i






27. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






28. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)






29. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)






30. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






31. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.






32. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






33. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






34. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






35. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC






36. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)






37. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






38. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c






39. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods






40. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.






41. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.






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






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






44. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






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






46. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)






47. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar






48. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.






49. English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame - a machine that - with minimal human supervision - could spin several threads at onc






50. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.