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AP World History

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






2. City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of Ptolemy. It contained the famous Library and the Museum and was a center for leading scientific and literary figures in the classical a






3. English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame - a machine that - with minimal human supervision - could spin several threads at onc






4. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






5. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods






6. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.






7. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






8. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600






9. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.






10. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






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






12. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.






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






14. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC






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






16. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.






17. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.






18. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.






19. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.






20. Date: French Revolution begins






21. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.






22. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.






23. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






24. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.






25. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.






26. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.






27. A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire - now known as Istanbul






28. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America






29. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE






30. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.






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






32. 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






33. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.






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






35. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.






36. An adherent of the Islamic religion.






37. 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.






38. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people






39. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt






40. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.






41. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).






42. 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






43. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years






44. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






45. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'






46. 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.






47. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations






48. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights






49. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.






50. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.

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