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AP World History

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1. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






2. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.






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






4. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.






5. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches






6. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE






7. 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.






8. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.






9. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






10. (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).






11. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.






12. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.






13. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets






14. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)






15. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)






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






17. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system






18. Date: Korean War starts






19. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate






20. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.






21. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.






22. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.






23. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.






24. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.






25. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.






26. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)






27. 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)






28. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






29. 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).






30. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)






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






32. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.






33. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great






34. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).






35. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).






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






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






38. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.






39. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.






40. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.






41. 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.






42. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.






43. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.






44. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.






45. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness






46. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)






47. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis






48. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.






49. Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor - but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.






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