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AP World History

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1. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






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






3. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






4. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states






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






6. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system






7. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people






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






9. Date: Korean War starts






10. 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.






11. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire






12. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.






13. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.






14. 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.






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






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






17. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.






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






19. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.






20. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri






21. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.






22. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.






23. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






24. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam






25. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.






26. Date: Stock Market Crash






27. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)






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






29. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






30. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






31. 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.






32. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god






33. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.






34. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






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






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






37. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






38. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.






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






40. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






41. 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.






42. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder






43. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.






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






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






46. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.






47. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.






48. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.






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






50. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d







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