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AP World History

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1. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.






2. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty






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






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






5. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






6. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c






7. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.






8. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.






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






10. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






11. 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.






12. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






13. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.






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






15. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






16. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.






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






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






19. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top






20. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.






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






22. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.






23. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.






24. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.






25. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE






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






27. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder






28. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.






29. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.






30. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.






31. The process of reforming political - military - economic - social - and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies - often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies.






32. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






33. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures






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






35. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)






36. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu






37. 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.






38. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)






39. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime






40. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.






41. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu






42. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.






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






44. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.






45. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.






46. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.






47. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).






48. 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.






49. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.






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