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AP World History

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






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.






5. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.






6. 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






7. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.






8. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl






9. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






10. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires






11. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.






12. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.






13. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.






14. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.






15. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






16. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name






17. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.






18. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)






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






20. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






21. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically






22. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.






23. 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.






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






25. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.






26. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.






27. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.






28. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.






29. 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






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






31. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam






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






33. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.






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






35. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area






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 member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan






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






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






40. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.






41. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.






42. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)






43. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






44. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.






45. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






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






47. 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.






48. 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






49. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.






50. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.