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AP World History

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






2. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.






3. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)






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






5. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno






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






7. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.






8. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)






9. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.






10. Date: Korean War starts






11. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part






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






13. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.






14. 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.






15. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






16. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






17. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach






18. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.






19. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t






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






25. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI






26. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.






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






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






29. The founder of Buddhism






30. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.






31. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






32. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.






33. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






34. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.






35. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






36. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan






37. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire - now known as Istanbul






42. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)






43. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.






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






45. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






46. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities - headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806.






47. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.






48. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire






49. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity






50. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia