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AP World History

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1. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.






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






3. German leader of the Nazi Party






4. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






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






6. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia






7. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.






8. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)






9. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.






10. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






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






12. Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws - inscribed on a black stone pillar - illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.






13. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.






14. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after






15. 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






16. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






17. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.






18. Russian prison camp for political prisoners






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






20. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.






21. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.






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






23. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.






24. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.






25. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)






26. 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.






27. 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






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






29. 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.






30. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.






31. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.






32. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.






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






34. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution






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






36. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.






37. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)






38. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.






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






40. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)






41. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.






42. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga






43. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)






44. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.






45. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.






46. 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)






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






48. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source






49. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.






50. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.