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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Kamikaze
Francisco Franco
Caravel
Stoicism
2. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.
Faisal
Centuries
Hittites
Safavid Empire
3. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Delian League
Darius I
1956
Aborigine
4. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.
Botany Bay
Perestroika
Abbasid Caliphate
Goths
5. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
legalism
Gothic Cathedrals
Tribute system
Macedonia
6. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.
Black Death
Fourteen Points
Iconoclast
Saddam Hussein
7. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
Gunpowder
Bourgeoisie
1756
Hittites
8. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Manumission
Isfahan
Lusitania
Guilds
9. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Paleolithic
Hammurabi
1911
Zoroastrianism
10. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
Indian Civil Service
Umayyad Caliphate
1987
Jenne-Jeno
11. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
10000 BCE
1935
Yongle
12. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Holocaust
Adolf Hitler
Moksha
Crystal Palace
13. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Carthage
Cultural Revolution
National Assembly
1991
14. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Junk
Roman Republic
Gujarat
Teotihuacan
15. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.
Forbidden City
Asoka
Mestizo
Peloponnesian War
16. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Manchuria
Macedonia
Theravada Buddhism
Empress Dowager Cixi
17. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
1271-1295 CE
Pericles
Medieval
Agora
18. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Realpolitik
1502
Yurt
19. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
1095 CE
pictograms
Kievan Russia
Inca
20. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.
George Washington
Afrikaners
Diaspora
1325 CE
21. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Devshirme
Guilds
Peloponnesian War
Sikhs
22. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh
Buddhism
Great Zimbabwe
Warring States Period
Tenochtitlan
23. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam
Sufi
Manchuria
Habsburgs
Mongol Empire
24. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
Mansa Musa
180 CE
1300 BCE
1453 CE
25. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Qing Empire
Bartolome de Las Casas
Yin and yang
Siddhartha Gautama
26. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i
Martin Luther
Telegraph
Mahabharata
Acropolis
27. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Peloponnesian War
Hammurabi
Iron curtain
Persia
28. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
Joesph Stalin
NATO
1804
Cultural Revolution
29. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)
League of Nations
632 CE
Sasanid Empire
Zulu
30. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
1689
Enclosure Movement
Umma
Pilgrims
31. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.
Jesus
1804
Benjamin Franklin
Korean War
32. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
Pancho Villa
Cixi
Gold Coast
Nirvana
33. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125
Mamluks
All-India Muslim League
Buddhism
Zoroastrianism
34. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Maya
Ibn Khaldun
Ulama
Cultural Revolution
35. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC
Ibn Khaldun
Hittites
Mahabharata
Charles de Gaulle
36. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
Maximillien Robespierre
Treaty of Nanking
Samsara
220 CE
37. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Buddha
Durbar
Scramble for Africa
ideograms
38. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
New Economic Policy
Stoicism
Philip II
Moksha
39. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
Triumvirate
1914-1918
Theravada Buddhism
Cecil Rhodes
40. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Estates General
Eva Peron
Herodotus
hadith
41. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
urbanization
Empiricism
Enclosure Movement
Deng Xiaoping
42. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Vasco da Gama
Economic sanctions
Philip II
United Nations
43. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
1910
Rajputs
1959
Nation-State
44. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America
The Golden Triangle
Stone Age
hadith
Semitic
45. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Sasanid Empire
Gentry
Gujarat
Sandinistas
46. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Postmodernism
221 BCE
1517
Pearl Harbor
47. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Porfirio Díaz
Pericles
Maya
Middle Passage
48. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.
Manchus
Punic Wars
Treaty of Nanking
Socrates
49. English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame - a machine that - with minimal human supervision - could spin several threads at onc
Richard Arkwright
Taiping Rebellion
Khmer Empire
Four Noble Truths
50. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.
Zionism
Steel
Armenia
Pax Romana