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AP World History

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1. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






2. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.






3. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.






4. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.






5. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.






6. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.






7. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.






8. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.






9. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.






10. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.






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






12. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.






13. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.






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. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.






16. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.






17. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






18. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death






19. 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.






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






21. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.






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






23. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba






24. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.






25. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US






26. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c






27. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.






28. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.






29. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.






30. 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.






31. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices






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






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






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






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






36. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i






37. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).






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






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






40. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






41. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






42. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).






43. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)






44. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.






45. 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.






46. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana






47. Associations of businessmen and producers






48. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.






49. 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






50. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses






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