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AP World History

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1. Date: Korean War starts






2. 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.






3. Date: 9/11 Attacks






4. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.






5. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)






6. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl






7. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.






8. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.






9. 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.






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






11. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.






12. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.






13. 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.






14. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.






15. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.






16. Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon - patron deity of Thebes - became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43)






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






18. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).






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






20. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.






21. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI






22. The central text of Daoism.






23. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC






24. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.






25. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






26. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






27. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.






28. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.






29. 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






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






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






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






33. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.






34. German leader of the Nazi Party






35. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.






36. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)






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






38. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami






39. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE






40. 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.






41. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.






42. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)






43. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.






44. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)






45. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.






46. Place that the British first colonized in Australia






47. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome






48. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.






49. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.






50. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.