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AP World History

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1. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o






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






3. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder






4. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.






5. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)






6. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)






7. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.






8. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the






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






10. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.






11. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British






12. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god






13. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.






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






15. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir






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






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






18. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US






19. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p






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






21. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.






22. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.






23. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)






24. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.






25. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)






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






27. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)






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






29. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)






30. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.






31. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.






32. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.






33. 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.






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






35. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.






36. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the






37. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically






38. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.






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






40. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')






45. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.






46. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






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






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






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






50. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.