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AP World History

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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






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






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






6. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.






7. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.






8. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.






9. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)






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






11. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.






12. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






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






14. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.






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






16. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






17. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.






18. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.






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






20. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.






21. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.






22. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.






23. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.






24. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






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






26. 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.






27. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire






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






29. The cycle of life in Hinduism






30. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.






31. 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.






32. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)






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






34. (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).






35. 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.






36. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states






37. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.






38. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)






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






40. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.






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






42. 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.






43. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.






44. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.






45. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism






46. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






47. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits






48. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea






49. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.






50. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.