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AP World History

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1. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.






2. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens






3. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






4. 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.






5. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.






6. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's






7. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby






8. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.






9. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force






10. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.






11. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.






12. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.






13. 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






14. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






15. 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.






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






17. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)






18. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate






19. 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.






20. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.






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






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






23. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII






24. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.






25. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices






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






27. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.






28. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






29. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.






30. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.






31. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.






32. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.






33. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






34. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war






35. 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.






36. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.






37. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






38. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






39. 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.






40. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)






41. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.






42. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.






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






44. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)






45. German leader of the Nazi Party






46. 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.






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






48. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






49. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.

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