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AP World History

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1. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate






2. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






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






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






5. 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






6. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.






7. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)






8. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva






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






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






11. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age






12. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.






13. 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.






14. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.






15. 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.






16. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






17. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it






18. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death






19. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.






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






21. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.






22. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.






23. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






24. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.






25. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600






26. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.






27. 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.






28. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






29. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)






30. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism






31. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.






32. Associations of businessmen and producers






33. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.






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






35. 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






36. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.






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






38. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.






39. 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






40. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)






41. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.






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






43. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.






44. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.






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






46. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d






47. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights






48. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.






49. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.






50. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.