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AP World History

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1. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.






2. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.






3. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.






4. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)






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






6. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.






7. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






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






9. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')






10. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.






11. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.






12. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests






13. A French Protestant






14. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)






15. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.






16. 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.






17. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.






18. 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






19. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)






20. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.






21. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately






22. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI






23. 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.






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






25. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.






26. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)






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






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






29. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area






30. 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.






31. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.






32. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






33. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.






34. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America






35. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.






36. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






37. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)






38. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)






39. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.






40. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)






41. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.






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






43. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






44. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.






45. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






46. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's






47. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America






48. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.






49. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)






50. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.