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AP World History

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1. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.






2. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.






3. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.






4. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.






5. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






6. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)






7. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.






8. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






9. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon






10. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany






11. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis






12. 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






13. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.






14. 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.






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






16. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






17. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.






18. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.






19. Date: Stock Market Crash






20. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.






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






22. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder






23. The founder of Buddhism






24. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.






25. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.






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






27. 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.)






28. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






29. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.






30. 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.






31. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






32. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.






33. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.






34. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility






35. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.






36. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)






37. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






38. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part






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






40. 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.






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






42. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force






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






44. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.






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. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o






47. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.






48. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






49. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.






50. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).