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AP World History

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1. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)






2. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.






3. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.






4. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.






5. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.






6. Date: 9/11 Attacks






7. Chinese man who led the revolution against the Manchu Dynasty.






8. 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






9. 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






10. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)






11. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an






12. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.






13. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.






14. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.






15. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






16. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites






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






18. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.






19. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






20. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.






21. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)






22. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people






23. 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.






24. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.






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






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






27. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.






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






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






30. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)






31. 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






32. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US






33. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






34. 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.






35. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.






36. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.






37. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)






38. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.






39. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).






40. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.






41. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.






42. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)






43. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses






44. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.






45. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.






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






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






48. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.






49. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran






50. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.