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AP World History

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1. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)






2. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices






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






4. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)






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






6. Date: end of WWII






7. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.






8. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC






9. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the






10. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.






11. The cycle of life in Hinduism






12. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.






13. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits






14. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences






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






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






17. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.






18. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism






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






20. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.






21. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.






22. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.






23. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.






24. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.






25. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






26. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






27. 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






28. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.






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






30. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana






31. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar






32. 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.






33. Conflict between Athens and Sparta






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






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






36. Associations of businessmen and producers






37. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed






38. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.






39. 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






40. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)






41. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America






42. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.






43. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)






44. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.






45. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






46. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.






47. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army






48. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.






49. 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






50. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.