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AP World History

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1. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.






2. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC






3. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).






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






5. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate






6. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.






7. 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.






8. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry






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






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






11. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.






12. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.






13. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)






14. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.






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






16. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)






17. 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






18. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo






19. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.






20. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.






21. 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)






22. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)






23. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






24. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)






25. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.






26. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)






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






28. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.






29. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.






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






31. 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)






32. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.






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






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






35. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.






36. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics






37. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.






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






39. 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






40. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






41. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c






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






43. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people






44. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)






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






46. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.






47. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.






48. 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.






49. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)






50. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.







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