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AP World History

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1. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






2. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE






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






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






5. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.






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






7. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.






8. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.






9. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.






10. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.






11. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.






12. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.






13. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.






14. The English monarch who was beheaded by Puritans (see English Civil War) who then established their own short-lived government ruled by Oliver Cromwell (Mid 1600s).






15. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






16. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)






17. 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.






18. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.






19. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon






20. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.






21. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






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






23. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed






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






25. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).






26. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.






27. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.






28. 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






29. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.






30. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.






31. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






32. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)






33. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.






34. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.






35. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)






36. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






40. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.






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






42. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)






43. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.






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






45. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.






46. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun






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






48. 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






49. German leader of the Nazi Party






50. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.