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AP World History

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1. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






2. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.






3. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






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






5. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great






6. 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.






7. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.






8. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.






9. 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






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






11. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.






12. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years






13. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.






14. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt






15. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)






16. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money






17. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.






18. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.






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






20. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.






21. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India






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






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






24. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.






25. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.






26. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'






27. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.






28. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






29. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.






30. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.






31. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.






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






33. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






34. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.






35. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.






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






41. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)






42. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia






43. 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)






44. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.






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






46. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI






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






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






49. The process of reforming political - military - economic - social - and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies - often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies.






50. 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.







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