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AP World History

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1. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs






2. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)






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






4. 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.






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






6. Chinese man who led the revolution against the Manchu Dynasty.






7. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)






8. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i






9. 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






10. Date: Korean War starts






11. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.






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






13. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.






14. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






15. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.






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






17. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.






18. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)






19. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE






20. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.






21. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)






22. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)






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






24. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena






25. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution






26. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.






27. 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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28. 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.






29. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.






30. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)






31. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.






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






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






34. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.






35. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.






36. The cycle of life in Hinduism






37. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)






38. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.






39. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.






40. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.






41. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.






42. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin






43. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.






44. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)






45. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.






46. Conflict between Athens and Sparta






47. The founder of Buddhism






48. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.






49. 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.






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