AP Flashcards

8647236908	Colonization	the acquisition of lands for commercial and religious motives	0
8647236909	power vacuum	a situation when no one is in control	1
8647236910	Robert clive	admisistrator; led defeated the indian forces in the battle of plassey	2
8647236911	East india company	transformed from a trading company to a rulong power in india. as a trading company, it was given the right to collect profits and taxes from thw indians in place of the mughal ruler	3
8647236912	Regulating Act	1773	4
8647236913	Warren Hastings	became the 1st british governor general to rule india	5
8647236914	Lord Cornwallis	introduced the permanent settlement	6
8647236915	permanent settlement act	stating that the british would collect land revenues from indian landlords	7
8647236916	Zamindars	Indian tax collectors or indian landlords	8
8647236917	Sepoys	Indian soldiers in the British army	9
8647236918	Sepoy Mutiny	the sepoy showed their anger against the british	10
8647236919	Maharajahs	Muslim	11
8647236920	Tea	major cash crop for british or one of the most major british exports around the world	12
8647236921	Opium	Substance derived from the opium poppy from which all narcotic drugs are derived	13
8647236922	Babur the Tiger	(1526-1530) He lead the Mughal empire, and invaded and conquered India. and a descendent of Timur	14
8647236923	Humayun the luckless leader	(1530-1556)	15
8647236924	Akbar the Great	(1556-1605) Babur's grandson, greatest of all Mughal rulers	16
8647236925	Jahangir the grasper of the world	(1605-1617)opposite of his own father	17
8647236926	Shah Jahan the master builder	(1627-1658) built the taj mahal for Montaz, mahal.	18
8647236927	aurangzeb the intolerant	(1658-1707) assended after disposed his father and beating his 2 brothers	19
8647236928	Caravel	the 1st boat; a 15th century ship developed by the poruguese to explore new lands	20
8647455325	gold	bullon	21
8647455326	The 3 G's	God, Gold, Glory	22
8647455327	crusades	A long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia	23
8647455328	technological advancement	inprovement on shipbuilding	24
8647455329	Astrolabe	an instrument used by the early explorers to determine the distance of their location basing from the stars	25
8647455330	Marco Polo's travels	marco polo adventures	26
8647455331	Spread of Christianity	white's man burden	27
8647455332	Muslim League	organization formed by muslims in 1906 to protect their interests against British Rule.	28
8647455333	Indian National Congress	A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government.	29
8647455334	Rowlatt Act of 1919	an act that gives the british the right to punish revolutionary acts	30
8647455335	Amritsar	capitol of punjab	31
8647455336	General Reginald Dyer	British Commander who open fired on the Indians at the Amritsar Massacre	32
8647455337	Amritsar Massacre	killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts	33
8647455338	Mohandas "Mahathma" Gandhi	A leader who helped India gain its independence and believed in non violence	34
8647455339	salt act	law required the indians to buy salt to pay taxes only from the british	35
8647455340	Salt March (Gandhi's)	240 miles up to the indian sea coast	36
8647455341	Government of India Act	limited democratic elections	37
8647455342	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	pressed only for a seperate muslim state	38
8647455343	Turkish Republic	ottoman empire in turkey	39
8647455344	Mustafa Kemal Ataturk	1st president of turkey	40
8647455345	kemalism	the reform represent a political revolution; a change from the ottoman empire to the establishment of the nation state of turkey	41
8647455346	trinity of laussene	october 29, 1923	42
8647455347	Secular Government	seperation of church and state	43
8647455348	Pan-Arabism	an ideology that called for all the arabs to overcome forces of colonialism and	44
8647455349	caliphs	muslim steward	45
8647455350	Muslim Caliphates	ruled by one muslim steward	46
8647455351	zionism	A movement of Jewish people that supports the re-establishment of the jewish homelandin a territory	47
8647455352	David Ben Gurion	announced that israel is an indepandent jewish state (1948).1st prime minister.	48
8647455353	Indian Independence day	june 3, 1947	49
8647455354	anarchy	total absence of rule or government; confusion; disorder	50
8647455355	AIML	all India Muslim League	51
8647455356	INC	Indian National Congress	52
8647455357	Ali Jinnah	Leader of Muslim league	53
8647455358	Jawaharlal Nehru	Leader of the INC and first prime minister of India	54
8647455359	pakistan	pure nation	55
8647455360	kashmir	a neutral zone between india and pakistan	56
8647455361	Kashmir Conflict	conflict between India and Pakistan both want land/water religious differences	57
8647455362	sinhalese	people from northern india who settled sri lanka in the sixth century b.c	58
8647455363	tamils	dravidian hindus from southern india who arrived in sri lanka in the fourth century a.d	59
8647455364	Ralph Bunche	UN mediator	60
8647455365	Gamal Abdel Nasser	decided to nationalize suez canal	61
8647455366	Balfour Declaration (1917)	In this, the British promised to view the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people.	62
8647455367	gunnar surring	swedish mediator	63
8647455368	june 15, 1967	also known as 6 days of war	64
8647455369	Saddam Hussein	Former president of Iraq	65
8647455370	Skyes-Picot Agreement	1916	66