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AP World History

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1. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.






2. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.






3. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US






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






5. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.






6. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.






7. 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






8. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.






9. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).






10. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.






11. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.






12. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India






13. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)






14. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.






15. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






16. 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






17. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.






18. 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.






19. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)






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






21. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.






22. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)






23. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.






24. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






25. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)






26. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma






27. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.






28. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army






29. 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)






30. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.






31. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.






32. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.






33. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism






34. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.






35. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520






36. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.






37. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.






38. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia






39. 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.






40. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.






41. 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.






42. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






43. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






44. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)






45. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.






46. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.






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






48. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt






49. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)






50. 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.