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AP World History

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






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






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






4. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.






5. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.






6. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)






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






8. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')






9. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.






10. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.






11. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.






12. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.






13. Date: independence & partition of India






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






15. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.






16. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.






17. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.






18. 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.






19. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)






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






21. 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.






22. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






23. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices






24. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).






25. 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.






26. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.






27. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






28. 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.






29. The founder of Buddhism






30. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu






31. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.






32. 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






33. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)






34. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis






35. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.






36. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army






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






38. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods






39. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe






40. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.






41. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members






42. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire






43. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.






44. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






45. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.






46. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.






47. 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






48. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.






49. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.






50. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.