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AP World History

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1. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after






7. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt






8. The most significant Mesoamerican city.






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






10. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.






11. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor






12. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.






13. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.






14. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.






15. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th






16. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)






17. The central text of Daoism.






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






19. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.






20. 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






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






22. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






23. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.






24. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.






25. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.






26. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.






27. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)






28. 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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29. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.






30. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.






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






32. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.






33. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.






34. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.






35. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.






36. 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.






37. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.






38. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India






39. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






40. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.






41. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.






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






43. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






44. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.






45. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.






46. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years






47. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate






48. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.






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






50. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.