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AP World History

Subjects : history, ap, bvat
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1. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing






2. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.






3. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.






4. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






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






6. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.






7. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.






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






9. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.






10. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






11. 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






12. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.






13. 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.






14. Date: independence & partition of India






15. The process of reforming political - military - economic - social - and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies - often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies.






16. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.






17. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice






18. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after






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






20. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.






21. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.






22. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.






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






24. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.






25. Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture.






26. 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






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






28. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.






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






30. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.






31. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.






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






33. 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






34. 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.






35. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.






36. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.






37. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.






38. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.






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






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






41. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






42. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent






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






44. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






45. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)






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






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






48. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.






49. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.






50. 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