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AP World History

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1. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.






2. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.






3. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities






4. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)






5. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.






6. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.






7. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






8. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.






9. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.






10. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.






11. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.






12. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.






13. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d






14. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)






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






16. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC






17. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'






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






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






20. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.






21. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism






22. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






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






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: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






26. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death






27. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.






28. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.






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






30. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.






31. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)






32. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.






33. 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






34. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.






35. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome






36. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil






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






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






39. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.






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






41. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century






42. 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.






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






44. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.

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






46. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.






47. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.






48. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)






49. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






50. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.







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