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AP World History

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






2. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.






3. Date: French Revolution begins






4. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).






5. The central text of Daoism.






6. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.






7. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






8. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






9. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)






10. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.






11. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






12. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.






13. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.






14. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






15. 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.






16. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis






17. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)






18. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.






19. System of government in which all 'citizens' (however defined) have equal political and legal rights - privileges - and protections - as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Demographic Transition -A change in th






20. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.






21. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the






22. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan






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






24. The most significant Mesoamerican city.






25. 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.






26. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.






27. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






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






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






30. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.






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






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






33. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)






34. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor






35. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






36. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.






37. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.






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






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






40. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.






41. 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






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






43. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear






44. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon






45. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)






46. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.






47. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.






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






49. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.






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