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AP World History

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1. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.






2. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.






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






4. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)






5. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.






6. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.






7. The central text of Daoism.






8. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.






9. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population






10. 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.






11. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.






12. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)






13. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.






14. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it






15. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.






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






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






18. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)






19. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.






20. 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






21. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.






22. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav






23. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.






24. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.






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






26. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736






27. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.






28. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.






29. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.






30. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.






31. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






32. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






33. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.






34. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






35. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






36. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small






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






38. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations






39. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.

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40. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'






44. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.






45. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






46. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.






47. 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






48. The English monarch who was beheaded by Puritans (see English Civil War) who then established their own short-lived government ruled by Oliver Cromwell (Mid 1600s).






49. 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.






50. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.







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