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AP World History

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






2. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs






3. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.






4. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.






5. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno






6. 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.






7. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.






8. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.






9. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.






10. Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.






11. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.






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






13. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






14. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.






15. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953






16. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')






17. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.






18. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.






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






20. The most important work of Indian sacred literature - a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.






21. 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.






22. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.






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






24. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.






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






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






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






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






29. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena






30. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people






31. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.






32. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.






33. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.






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






35. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept






36. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.






37. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.






38. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)






39. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.






40. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens






41. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear






42. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do






43. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.






44. 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.






45. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.






46. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.






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






48. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.






49. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.






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