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AP World History
AP World History -- General Terms
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10th Grade
03/20/2007

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Abbasid Caliphate
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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 from 750 to 1258 C.E.
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Afrikaners
Definition
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, imposing a system of racial segregation called apartheid after 1949.
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Agricultural Revolution
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The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between c. 8000 B.C.E. and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
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Alexander (356 - 323 B.C.E.)
Definition
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.
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Salvador Allende (1908-1973)
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Socialist politician elected president Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack.
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anarchists
Definition
Revolutionaries who wanted to abolish all private property and governments, usually by violence, and replace them with free association groups.
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