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AP World History

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






2. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.






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






4. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.






5. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).






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






7. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.






8. 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.






9. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood






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






11. 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.






12. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)






13. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.






14. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility






15. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)






16. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.






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






18. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.






19. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.






20. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.






21. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia






22. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain






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






24. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force






25. 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.






26. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736






27. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.






28. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma






29. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry






30. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.






31. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)






32. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






33. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






34. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.






35. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






36. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.






37. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe






38. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.






39. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god






40. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented






41. 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.






42. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)






43. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






44. 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.






45. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






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






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






48. Russian prison camp for political prisoners






49. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).






50. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.