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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
1991
Devshirme
Huns
Sikhism
2. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)
Daoism
Darius I
1956
Pax Romana
3. Date: 9/11 Attacks
2001
Separate Spheres
Terrorism
Tenochtitlan
4. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Theravada Buddhism
Manchus
Stoicism
Colombian Exchange
5. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Syncretism
Julius Caesar
Teotihuacan
6. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Shogun
Ottomans
Umayyad Caliphate
Mongols
7. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
Alexander the Great
Paleolithic
Goths
Weimar Republic
8. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
1071 CE
Byzantine Empire
Collectivization
Young Turks
9. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
hadith
1911
Siberia
Zen
10. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
Mauryan Empire
Samurai
1600
1258 CE
11. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Submarine telegraph cables
Modernization
1959
Beijing
12. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
1899
Jizya
Mesopotamia
13. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.
Polis
Trireme
Napoleon
ethnic cleansing
14. An adherent of the Islamic religion.
Pax Mongolica
Little Ice Age
Muslim
Swahili
15. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)
Abbasid Caliphate
32 CE
Ibn Khaldun
pictograms
16. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
221 BCE
Gothic Cathedrals
Pilgrims
Hellenistic Age
17. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
European Community
Pax Mongolica
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Indulgences
18. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Capitalism
Habsburg
Guild
Zulu
19. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Pax Romana
Manchus
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Deng Xiaoping
20. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
Forbidden City
Memphis
Pearl Harbor
Humanism
21. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
Tang Revival
Industrial Revolution
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Gold Coast
22. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Perestroika
assimilation
Getulio Vargas
Francisco Franco
23. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name
Olmec
Manchus
Nuclear nonproliferation
Cyrus II
24. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Jesuits
Papacy
Ethiopia
1899
25. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Gold Coast
Abolition
1991
Hittites
26. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Roman Republic
1488
1962
1863
27. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia
Paleolithic
Leonardo da Vinci
Winston Churchill
Jamestown
28. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.
Aqueduct
Roman Principate
Ayatollah Khomeini
Agora
29. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.
Holocaust
1689
1071 CE
Guild
30. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Tribute system
Divine Right of Kings
1949
Babylonian Empire
31. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.
Ziggurat
Hebrew Bible
Sandinistas
Code of Hammurabi
32. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Romanization
Mao Zedong
urbanization
Laissez Faire
33. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).
Punic Wars
assimilation
Constantine
Mao Zedong
34. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
Napoleonic Wars
1931
Empress Dowager Cixi
35. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.
Ethiopia
Tributary system
Suez Canal
Bartholomew Dias
36. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Oracle Bones
Maya
Peloponnesian War
Safavid Empire
37. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
Yellow Turban
95 Theses
Constantinople
Aqueduct
38. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
1945
10000 BCE
Crystal Palace
Hundred Years War
39. 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.
Pax Mongolica
Herodotus
Kamikaze
Buddha
40. German leader of the Nazi Party
Electricity
Guilds
Adolf Hitler
Indian National Congress
41. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Ghana
Berlin Conference
1258 CE
Hundred Years War
42. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
Memphis
333 CE
1948
1935
43. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Hoplite
3000s BCE
Jacobins
Zaibatsu
44. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
loess
180 CE
Movable type
Epic of Gilgamesh
45. 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 sun-disk.
1950
Champa Rice
Akhenaten
Adolf Hitler
46. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Mantra
Republic
Tenochtitlan
Golden Horde
47. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Balance of power
Persia
assimilation
Peloponnesian War
48. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
1095 CE
Habsburg
Charlemagne
Delhi
49. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.
Apostle Paul
Hammurabi
Asante
Treaty of Versailles
50. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Dalai Lama
221 BCE
Cold War
Jesuits