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AP World History

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1. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.






2. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)






3. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






4. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia






5. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI






6. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.






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






8. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.






9. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.






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






11. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very






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






13. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis






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






15. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.






16. 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.






17. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.






18. 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.






19. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism






20. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






21. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.






22. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe






23. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.






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






25. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe






26. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.






27. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan






28. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)






29. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)






30. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






31. 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)






32. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.






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






34. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.






35. 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






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






37. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)






38. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






39. 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






40. 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






41. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.






42. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.






43. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)






44. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.






45. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences






46. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.






47. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.






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






49. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)






50. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.