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AP World History

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






2. 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






3. 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.






4. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.






5. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)






6. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby






7. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.






8. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.






9. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.






10. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.






11. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.






12. 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.






13. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)






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






15. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu






16. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.






17. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)






18. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.






19. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.






20. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.






21. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba






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






23. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.






24. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.






25. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






26. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.






27. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures






28. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.






29. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.






30. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another






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






33. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism






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






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






36. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.






37. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.






38. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






39. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.






40. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.






41. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.






42. 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






43. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.






44. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.






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






46. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.






47. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)






48. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th






49. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.






50. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.