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AP World History

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






2. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)






3. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






4. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.






5. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.






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






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






8. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.






9. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.






10. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600






11. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.






12. 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






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






14. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.






15. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods






16. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.






17. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)






18. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept






19. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality






20. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.






21. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)






22. 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).






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






24. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis






25. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state






26. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.






27. 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.






28. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires






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






30. The most important work of Indian sacred literature - a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.






31. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






32. 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






33. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states






34. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.






35. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years






36. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests






37. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII






38. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.






39. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.






40. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.






41. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.






42. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.






43. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.

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44. Date: independence & partition of India






45. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.






46. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.






47. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.






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






49. 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






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