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AP World History

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1. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.






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






3. 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.






4. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






5. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'






6. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood






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






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






9. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.






10. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire






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






12. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach






13. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.






14. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.






15. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.






16. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs






17. 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






18. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.






19. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)






20. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.






21. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.






22. 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.






23. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.






24. 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.






25. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.






26. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)






27. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.






28. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')






29. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.






30. The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region.






31. Conflict between Athens and Sparta






32. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches






33. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.






34. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.






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






36. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)






37. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)






38. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.






39. The most significant Mesoamerican city.






40. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.






41. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo






42. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon






43. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan






44. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.






45. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.






46. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.






47. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.






48. '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.






49. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.






50. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor