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AP World History

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1. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.






2. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it






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






4. 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






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






6. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.






7. 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.






8. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.






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






10. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.






11. 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






12. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.






13. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.






14. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.






15. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






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. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.






18. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora






19. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea






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






21. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.






22. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i






23. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






24. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept






25. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






26. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market






27. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






28. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






29. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.






30. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba






31. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.






32. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






33. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.






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






35. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena






36. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.






37. The founder of Buddhism






38. 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.






39. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.






40. 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






41. Date: independence & partition of India






42. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after






43. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






44. 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.






45. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.






46. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)






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






48. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.






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






50. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany