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AP World History

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1. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.






2. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America






3. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.






4. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army






5. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.


6. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.






7. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri






12. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)






13. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






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






15. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






16. 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.






17. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.






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






19. 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






20. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.






21. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the






22. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






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






24. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






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






26. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.






27. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.






28. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.






29. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






30. 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.






31. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)






32. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.






33. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.






34. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba






35. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.






36. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.






37. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.






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






39. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.






40. 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






41. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.






42. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






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






44. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics






45. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)






46. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres






47. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






48. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits






49. 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.






50. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.