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AP World History

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1. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens






2. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war






3. 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.






4. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.






5. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.






6. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire






7. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.






8. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).






9. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.






10. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.






11. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)






12. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.






13. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing






14. 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.






15. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)






16. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.






17. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.






18. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.






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






20. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.






21. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.






22. 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.






23. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






24. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt






25. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt






26. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.






27. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.






28. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.






29. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.






30. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.






31. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.






32. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.






33. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.






34. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.






35. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.






36. 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.)






37. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.






38. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






39. 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.






40. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.






41. 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.






42. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.






43. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry






44. 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.






45. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.






46. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.






47. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism






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






49. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.






50. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.