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AP World History

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1. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.






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






3. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.






4. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea






5. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.






6. 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.






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






8. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.






9. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






10. 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.






11. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.






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






13. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)






14. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the






15. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.






16. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force






17. '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.






18. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana






19. 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.






20. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.






21. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.






22. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures






23. 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.






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






25. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.






26. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.






27. Associations of businessmen and producers






28. Date: 9/11 Attacks






29. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.






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






31. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)






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. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.






34. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part






35. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.






36. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)






37. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.






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






39. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.






40. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.






41. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)






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






43. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






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






45. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.






46. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.






47. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.






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






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






50. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.