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AP World History

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1. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.






2. 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






3. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






4. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.






5. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war






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






7. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.






8. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.






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






10. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE






11. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear






12. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)






13. 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.






14. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.






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






16. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.






17. 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.






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






19. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).






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






21. 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.






22. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.






23. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.






24. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.






25. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)






26. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.






27. 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)






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






29. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members






30. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.






31. 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.






32. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






33. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.






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






35. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)






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






37. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.






38. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.






39. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred






40. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.






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






42. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.






43. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.






44. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.






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






46. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.






47. 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.






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






49. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.






50. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC