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AP World History

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1. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.






2. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe






3. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.






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






5. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.






6. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th






7. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do






8. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






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






10. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.






11. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)






12. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.






13. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)






14. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI






15. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.






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






17. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.






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






19. Associations of businessmen and producers






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






21. 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.






22. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism






23. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.






24. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.






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






26. Russian prison camp for political prisoners






27. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o






28. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)






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






30. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.






31. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.






32. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.






33. 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.






34. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.






35. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.






36. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)






37. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age






38. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






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






40. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)






41. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)






45. 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.






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






47. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE






48. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.






49. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.






50. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift