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AP World History

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1. 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.






2. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






3. 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.






4. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.






5. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.






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






7. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)






8. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.






9. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the






10. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)






11. 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.






12. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.






13. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.






14. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.






15. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.






16. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.






17. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.






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






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






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






21. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






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






23. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.






24. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran






25. 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






26. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.






27. 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.






28. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






29. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.






30. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe






31. '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






32. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.






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






34. 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.






35. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)






36. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.






37. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th






38. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.






39. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.






40. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.






41. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.






42. 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.






43. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)






44. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






45. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.






46. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






47. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.






48. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.






49. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)






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