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AP World History

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1. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.






2. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.






3. 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






4. Date: Stock Market Crash






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






6. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.






7. Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture.






8. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953






9. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.






10. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






11. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t






12. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.






13. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America






14. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.






15. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.






16. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.






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






18. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities






19. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.






20. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.






21. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)






22. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.






26. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.






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






28. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)






29. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia






30. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.






31. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)






32. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.






33. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis






34. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)






35. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany






36. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)






37. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.






38. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.






39. '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.






40. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.






41. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.






42. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.






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






44. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.






45. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system






46. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.






47. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution






48. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






49. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.






50. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.