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AP World History

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1. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.






2. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.






3. Date: French Revolution begins






4. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






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






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






7. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.






8. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.






9. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state






10. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god






11. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu






12. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.






13. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.






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






15. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.






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






17. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.






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






19. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736






20. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire






21. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.






22. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.






23. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.






24. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force






25. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire






26. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.






27. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969






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






29. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)






30. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)






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






32. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.






33. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.






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






35. 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)






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






37. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations






38. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.






39. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.






40. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part






41. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.






42. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.






43. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.






44. '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.






45. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.






46. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.






47. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog






48. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes






49. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.






50. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)