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AP World History

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1. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.






2. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.






3. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.






4. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.






5. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






6. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.






7. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent






8. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)






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






10. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)






11. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






12. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.






13. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.






14. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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.






20. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






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






22. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






23. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






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






25. The cycle of life in Hinduism






26. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.






27. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.






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






29. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.






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






31. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.






32. 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.






33. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.






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






35. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S






36. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.






37. 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.






38. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






39. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






40. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






41. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)






42. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga






43. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.






44. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






45. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.






46. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






47. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha






48. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).






49. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE






50. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.