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AP World History

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1. 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.






2. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam






3. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)






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






5. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.






6. The founder of Buddhism






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






8. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.






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






10. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.






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






12. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt






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






14. 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.






15. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






16. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953






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






18. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.






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






20. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia






21. 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.






22. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.






23. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)






24. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system






25. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.






26. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






27. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')






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






29. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.






30. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.






31. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga






32. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.






33. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






34. 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).






35. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death






36. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.






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






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






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






40. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)






41. 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






42. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.






43. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome






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






45. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt






46. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir






47. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.






48. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.






49. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics






50. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.