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AP World History

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1. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu






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






3. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.






4. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire






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






6. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.






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






8. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)






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






13. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu






14. 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






15. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






16. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'






17. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736






18. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






19. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.






20. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.






21. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






22. 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






23. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






24. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)






25. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.






26. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.






27. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.






28. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.






29. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe






30. 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.






31. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.






32. Associations of businessmen and producers






33. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.






34. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.






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






36. 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.






37. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.






38. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses






39. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.






40. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)






41. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.






42. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences






43. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)






44. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.






45. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.






46. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo






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






48. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)






49. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept






50. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)