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AP World History

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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






4. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia






5. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)






6. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people






7. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')






8. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's






9. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.






10. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)






11. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.






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






13. 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)






14. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami






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






16. 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






17. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility






18. The cycle of life in Hinduism






19. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.






20. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.






21. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.






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






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






24. 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






25. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.






26. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar






27. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan






28. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






29. 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).






30. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






31. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.






32. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.






33. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate






34. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE






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






39. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented






40. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.






41. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.






42. 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






43. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva






44. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)






45. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.






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






47. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.






48. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c






49. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






50. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.