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AP World History

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






2. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.






3. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do






4. The founder of Buddhism






5. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.






6. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.






7. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.






8. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.






9. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.






10. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)






11. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)






12. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.






13. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.






14. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri






15. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.






16. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba






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






18. 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






19. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th






20. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.






21. 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).






22. 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)






23. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.






24. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.






25. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.






26. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.






27. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.






28. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).






29. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics






30. German leader of the Nazi Party






31. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.






32. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125






33. Under the Roman Republic - one of the two magistrates holding supreme civil and military authority. Nominated by the Senate and elected by citizens in the Comitia Centuriata - the consuls held office for one year and each had power of veto over the o






34. 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






35. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')






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






37. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.






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






39. Date: French Revolution begins






40. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity






41. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.






42. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.






43. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.






44. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.






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






46. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.






47. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states






48. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.






49. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.






50. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.