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AP World History

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1. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)






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






3. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing






4. The central text of Daoism.






5. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.






6. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market






7. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog






8. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI






9. 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.






10. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.






11. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.






12. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






13. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.






14. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl






15. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.






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






17. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).






18. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






19. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI






20. 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






21. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






22. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.






23. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach






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






25. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






26. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






27. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.






28. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.






29. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.






30. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.






31. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






32. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th






33. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)






34. 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.






35. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.






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






37. 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.






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






39. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')






40. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members






41. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army






42. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.






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






44. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.






45. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.






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






47. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan






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






49. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.






50. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia