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AP World History

Subjects : history, ap, bvat
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1. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.






2. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.






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






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






5. Chinese man who led the revolution against the Manchu Dynasty.






6. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.






7. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.






8. 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.






9. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.






10. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






11. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)






12. 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.






13. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana






14. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)






15. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.






16. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






17. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.






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






19. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.






20. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons






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






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






23. 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.






24. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






25. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).






26. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire






27. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)






28. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






29. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






30. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits






31. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)






32. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.






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






34. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. Date: end of WWII






40. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.






41. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.






42. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.






43. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC






44. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo






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






46. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)






47. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.






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






49. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)






50. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.