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Abbasid Caliphate ✔✔Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, the Abbasids
overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital
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AP World History Questions and
Answers 100% Passed
Abbasid Caliphate ✔✔Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, the Abbasids
overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad
(founded 762) from 750 to 1258. (p. 234)
absolution ✔✔The theory popular in France and other early modern European monarchies that
royal power should be free of constitutional checks. (p. 452)
Acheh Sultanate ✔✔Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra. Main center of Islamic expansion in
Southeast Asia in the early seventeenth century, it declined after the Dutch seized Malacca from
Portugal in 1641. (p. 541)
acllas ✔✔Women selected by Inca authorities to serve in religious centers as weavers and ritual
participants. (p. 318)
Aden ✔✔Port city in the modern south Arabian country of Yemen. It has been a major trading
center in the Indian Ocean since ancient times. (p. 385)
Adolf Hitler ✔✔Born in Austria, Hitler became a radical German nationalist during World War I.
He led the National Socialist German Workers' Party-the Nazi Party-in the 1920s and became
dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II. (p. 786)
African National Congress ✔✔An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights
for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National
Congress, it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought equality (809)
Afrikaners ✔✔South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth
century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a
minority among South Africans, they held political power after 1910. (735)
Agricultural Revolution ✔✔The change from food gathering to food production that occurred
between ca. 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution. (p. 17)
agricultural revolution ✔✔The transformation of farming that resulted in the eighteenth century
from the spread of new crops, improvements in cultivation techniques and livestock breeding, and
consolidation of small holdings into large farms from which tenants were expelled (600)
Akbar ✔✔Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India (r. 1556-1605). He expanded the
empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus. (p. 536)
Akhenaten ✔✔Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna, fostered
a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sundisk. (p.66)
Albert Einstein ✔✔German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which states that
time, space, and mass are relative to each other and not fixed. (p. 774)
Aleandria ✔✔City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the
capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of the Ptolemies. It contained the famous Library and the
Museum-a center for leading scientific and literary figures. (138)
Alexander ✔✔King of Macedonia in northern Greece. 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. Later known as Alexander the Great. (p. 136)
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