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AP World History

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1. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.






2. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states






3. 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.






4. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






5. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)






6. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.






7. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.






8. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.






9. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches






10. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)






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






12. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.






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






14. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')






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






16. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)






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






18. Political units in India in the years 700-600 BC. They are the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India. They are the earliest kingdoms set up by the Indo-Aryans migrants to India.






19. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god






20. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






21. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.






22. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






23. 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






24. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.






25. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.






26. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.






27. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.






28. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.






29. 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.






30. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe






31. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)






32. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.






33. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia






34. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.






35. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.






36. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.






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






38. 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






39. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.






40. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age






41. 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






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






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






44. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






45. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.






46. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)






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






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






49. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate






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