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AP World History

Subjects : history, ap, bvat
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1. Conflict between Athens and Sparta






2. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.






6. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)






7. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.






8. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)






9. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part






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






11. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.






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






13. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.






14. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.






15. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities






16. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army






17. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices






18. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.






19. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.






20. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India






21. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.






22. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)






23. 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.






24. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)






25. Spanish estates that were often plantations






26. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept






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






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






29. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.






30. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical






31. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.






32. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o






33. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.






34. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)






35. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)






36. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.






37. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.






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






39. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.






40. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






41. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.






42. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar






43. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people






44. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)






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






46. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.






47. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.






48. 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






49. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.






50. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.