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AP World History

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1. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.






2. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.






3. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.






4. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.






5. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.






6. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America






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






8. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.






9. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.






10. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o






11. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations






12. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S






13. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')






14. 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.






15. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.






16. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs






17. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century






18. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.






19. 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






20. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.






21. 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.






22. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.






23. Date: Stock Market Crash






24. 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.






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. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






27. 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






28. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.






29. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






30. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.






31. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)






32. 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.






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






34. 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






35. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)






36. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.






37. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






41. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights






42. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.






43. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.






44. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.






45. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl






46. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')






47. 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.






48. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.






49. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.






50. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.