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AP World History

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1. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate






2. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






3. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)






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






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






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






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






9. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.






10. 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).






11. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.






12. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept






13. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small






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






15. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights






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






17. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.






18. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.






19. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.






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






21. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.






22. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






23. 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.






24. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.






25. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.






31. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)






32. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu






33. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.






34. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.






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






36. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.






37. 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.






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






39. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt






40. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






41. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.






42. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).






43. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






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






48. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A






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






50. 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.