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AP World History

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1. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).






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






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






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






5. The central text of Daoism.






6. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war






7. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)






8. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.






9. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'






10. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.






11. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.






12. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.






13. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)






14. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.

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






16. 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.






17. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.






18. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.






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






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






21. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.






22. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).






23. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.






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






25. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.






26. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift






27. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution






28. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.






29. 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.






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






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






32. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.






33. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.






34. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.






35. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.






36. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.






37. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.






38. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.






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






40. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.






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






42. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very






43. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.






44. 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.






45. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.






46. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.






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






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






49. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev






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