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AP World History

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1. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.






2. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.






3. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.






4. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII






5. 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.)






6. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area






7. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






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






9. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.






10. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.






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






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






13. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them






14. (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).






15. 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.






16. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.






17. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)






18. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).






19. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.






20. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






21. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






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






23. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America






24. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.






25. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.






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






27. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.






28. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age






29. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.






30. A French Protestant






31. 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.






32. 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






33. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.






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






35. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.






36. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.






37. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.






38. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres






39. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities






40. Chinese man who led the revolution against the Manchu Dynasty.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).






44. Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.






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






46. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon






47. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.






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






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






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