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AP World History

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1. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.






2. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.






3. 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.






4. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o






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






6. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great






7. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)






8. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China






9. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).






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






11. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico






12. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very






13. 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.






14. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






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






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






17. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.






18. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.






19. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)






20. Ultraconservative empress in Qing (Manchu) dynasty China. Ruled china in the turbulent late 19th century - not as a true Empress but as an Empress Dowager.






21. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






22. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)






23. 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).






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






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






26. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.






27. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.






28. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.






29. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.






30. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.






31. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)






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






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






34. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






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






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






37. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.






38. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.






39. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






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






41. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.






42. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.






43. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.

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44. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)






45. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.






46. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.






47. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.






48. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.






49. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)






50. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.