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AP World History

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1. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires






2. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir






3. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt






4. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)






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






6. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.






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






8. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)






9. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name






10. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.






11. 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






12. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.






13. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.






14. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.






15. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE






16. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis






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






18. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis






19. Date: independence & partition of India






20. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force






21. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.






22. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.






23. 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.






24. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






25. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them






26. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility






27. 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






28. 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






29. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.






30. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.






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






32. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations






33. Date: French Revolution begins






34. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics






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






36. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.






37. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.






38. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.






39. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.






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






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






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






43. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.






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






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






46. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.






47. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520






48. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.






49. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






50. Spanish estates that were often plantations