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AP World History

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1. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






2. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.






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






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






5. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.






6. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.






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






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






9. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.






10. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.






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






12. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.






13. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






14. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.






15. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.






16. The English monarch who was beheaded by Puritans (see English Civil War) who then established their own short-lived government ruled by Oliver Cromwell (Mid 1600s).






17. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.






18. Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste - and Akbar I married a Rajput princess.






19. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.






23. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.






24. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.






25. 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.






26. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)






27. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.






28. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.






29. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl






30. 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






31. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another






32. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire






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






34. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






35. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do






36. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.






37. 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.






38. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.






39. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical






40. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small






41. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.






42. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)






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






44. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.






45. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)






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






47. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh






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






49. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.






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