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AP World History

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1. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)






2. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.






3. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba






4. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear






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






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






7. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations






8. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.






9. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.






10. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.






11. 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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12. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.






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






14. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights






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






16. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.






17. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.






18. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.






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






20. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing






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






22. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.






23. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.






27. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600






28. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.






29. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






30. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.






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






32. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.






33. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality






34. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh






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






36. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.






37. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain






38. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)






39. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.






40. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital






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






42. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.






43. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope






44. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.






45. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people






46. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.






47. Date: Qin Unified China(Hint: _21 BCE)






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






49. 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.






50. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.