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AP World History

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1. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






2. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana






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






4. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented






5. 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.






6. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.






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






8. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.






9. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.






10. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.






11. Date: 9/11 Attacks






12. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.






13. 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.






14. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.






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






16. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.






17. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.






18. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno






19. Ultraconservative empress in Qing (Manchu) dynasty China. Ruled china in the turbulent late 19th century - not as a true Empress but as an Empress Dowager.






20. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.






21. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept






22. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).






23. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.






24. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.






25. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.






26. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.






27. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






28. 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.






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






30. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.






31. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.






32. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.






33. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.






34. Conflict between Athens and Sparta






35. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.






36. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)






37. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.






38. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.






39. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.






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






41. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army






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






43. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities - headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806.






44. 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






45. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.

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46. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred






47. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens






48. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.






49. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.






50. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.