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AP World History

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1. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.






2. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520






3. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.






4. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.






5. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.






6. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe






7. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.






8. 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)






9. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






10. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC






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






12. 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






13. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India






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






15. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.






16. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.






17. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor






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






19. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.






20. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites






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






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






23. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)






27. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.






28. 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).






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






30. 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.






31. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.






32. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






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






34. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)






35. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)






36. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.






37. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.






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






39. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)






40. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.






41. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality






42. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI






43. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.






44. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.






45. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.






46. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






47. 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.






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






49. German leader of the Nazi Party






50. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.