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AP World History

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1. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.






2. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.






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






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






5. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






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






7. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism






8. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






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






10. 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.






11. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.






12. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.






13. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.






14. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.






15. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights






16. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people






17. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t






18. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






19. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)






20. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.






21. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members






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






23. Date: French Revolution begins






24. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.






25. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state






26. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.






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






28. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.






29. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.






30. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)






31. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.






32. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.






33. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it






37. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)






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






39. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top






40. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.






41. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.






42. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.






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






44. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.






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






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






47. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.






48. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)






49. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






50. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution