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AP World History

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1. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.






2. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.






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






4. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.






5. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th






6. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






7. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'






8. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir






9. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






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






11. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.






12. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






13. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI






14. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.






15. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift






16. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)






17. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.






18. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.






19. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.






20. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.






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






22. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis






23. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor






24. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.






25. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.






26. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.






27. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.






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






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






30. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.






31. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood






32. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.






33. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






34. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520






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






36. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






37. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.






38. 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






39. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






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






41. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)






42. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






43. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.






44. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)






45. Russian prison camp for political prisoners






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)






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






50. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.







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