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AP World History

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1. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market






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






3. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.






4. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.






5. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.






6. 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)






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






8. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.






9. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.






10. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen






11. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.






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






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






14. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.






15. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.






16. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






17. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members






18. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.






19. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.






20. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires






21. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)






22. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)






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






24. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)






25. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.






26. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.






27. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.






28. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.






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






30. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.






31. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites






32. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres






33. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.






34. 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






35. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.






36. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate






37. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.






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






39. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)






40. 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.






41. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi






42. 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






43. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.






44. 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.






45. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE






46. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)






47. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.






48. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia






49. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.






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







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