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AP World History

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1. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.






2. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.






3. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






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






5. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great






9. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after






10. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil






11. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.






12. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt






13. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture






14. 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






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






16. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.






17. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.






18. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby






19. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.






20. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.






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






22. 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.






23. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.






24. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.






25. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






26. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






27. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder






28. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire






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






30. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small






31. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






32. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')






33. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).






34. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations






35. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.






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






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






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






39. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests






40. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






41. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






42. 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






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






44. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.






45. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






46. 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.






47. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.






48. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.






49. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.






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