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AP World History

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1. 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.






2. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.






3. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.






4. A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire - now known as Istanbul






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






6. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).






7. 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.






8. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.






9. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)






10. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.






11. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.






12. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)






13. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.






14. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.






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






16. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






17. 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.






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






19. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)






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






21. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.






22. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.






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






24. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)






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






26. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.






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






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






29. The founder of Buddhism






30. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)






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






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






33. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.






34. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the






35. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.






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






37. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






38. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.






39. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.






40. System of government in which all 'citizens' (however defined) have equal political and legal rights - privileges - and protections - as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Demographic Transition -A change in th






41. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.






42. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)






43. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.






44. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)






45. 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






46. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.






47. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).






48. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.






49. 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.






50. Associations of businessmen and producers