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AP World History

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1. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.






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






3. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.






4. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)






5. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






6. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'






7. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.






8. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.






9. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.






10. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.






11. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.






12. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.






13. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)






14. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.






15. 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.






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






17. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.






18. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






19. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army






20. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






21. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.






22. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites






23. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.






24. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top






25. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).






26. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.






27. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.






28. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






29. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America






30. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century






31. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.






32. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.






33. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)






34. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






35. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.






36. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th






37. 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.






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






39. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.






40. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.






41. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






42. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon






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






44. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.






45. 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.






46. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.






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






48. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)






49. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)






50. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights