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AP World History

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1. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520






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






3. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.






4. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)






5. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.






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






7. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.






8. The cycle of life in Hinduism






9. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






10. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source






11. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953






12. 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.






13. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)






14. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.






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






16. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.






17. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






18. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






19. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.






20. 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.






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






22. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.






23. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






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






25. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






26. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.






27. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.






28. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.






29. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after






30. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.






31. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






32. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')






33. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.






34. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.






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






36. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)






37. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres






38. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very






39. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept






40. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area






41. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons






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






43. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.






44. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain






45. Date: independence & partition of India






46. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran






47. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)






48. The central text of Daoism.






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






50. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)