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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The founder of Buddhism
Karma
Siddhartha Gautama
1954
Warsaw Pact
2. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Apostle Paul
Fresco
Iconoclast
Imperialism
3. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Humanism
Janissaries
Trireme
1871
4. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens
Carthage
Persian Wars
Stoicism
Romanization
5. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Proxy war
deforestation
Yurt
Hatshepsut
6. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
Vedas
1066 CE
Teotihuacan
Cyrus
7. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Minoans
Manchus
221 BCE
Isfahan
8. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Roman Republic
Theravada Buddhism
Agora
Mulatto
9. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)
Shamanism
Guilds
Caste system
Charles de Gaulle
10. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
Cottage industry
The Mahdi
Akhenaten
Vasco da Gama
11. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Colombian Exchange
Ayatollah Khomeini
Sikhism
Zhou Dynasty
12. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.
Alexandria
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Israel
Indian Ocean
13. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.
Aztecs
Assimilation
Nikita Khrushchev
Josiah Wedgwood
14. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
Gunpowder
Habsburg
Zhou Dynasty
Crystal Palace
15. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Zulu
Tanakh
Leonardo da Vinci
urbanization
16. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)
Delhi Sulatanate
Dutch West India Company
Pilgrimage
Mechanization
17. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.
Mansa Musa
Emilio Aguinaldo
Zaibatsu
assimilation
18. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
Civilian Conservation Corps
Long March
Suez Canal
Swahili
19. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520
Mohandas Gandhi
Hellenistic
Delhi Sultanate
Diocletian
20. 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.)
1956
Pax Romana
Celts
4th century CE
21. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.
Roman Senate
Mongol Empire
Socialists
Samurai
22. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
1954
Hammurabi
Pax Romana
Mentuhotep I
23. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
Neocolonialism
1618
Papacy
Victorian Age
24. Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.
Yin and yang
ethnic cleansing
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Sahel
25. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
1433 CE
John Locke
cuneiform
Emperor Menelik
26. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
1914-1918
1300 BCE
Fourteen Points
Sasanid Empire
27. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.
Great Zimbabwe
African National Congress
Copernicus
Gunpowder
28. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
Helsinki Accords
Colombian Exchange
Talmud
1987
29. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Sigmund Freud
Aryans
League of Nations
Punic Wars
30. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Charles de Gaulle
Printing press
Ziggurat
Dutch West India Company
31. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Jamestown
1517
Romanization
32. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
Tenochtitlan
Parthians
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vedas
33. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war
Khomeini
Hittites
Tito
Protestant Reformation
34. 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
1804
Crusades
Marco Polo
35. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Vishnu
1789
Stoicism
Joesph Stalin
36. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.
Juan Peron
Islam
Semitic
liberalism
37. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Inca
Enconmienda
Zheng He
Diffusion
38. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Agricultural Revolution
Czar
Sokoto Caliphate
Cuban Missile Crisis
39. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
Napoleonic Wars
Persia
John Locke
Yuan Empire
40. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Great Circuit
1756
Daoism
Thomas Edison
41. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
Siberia
Israel
Czar
Maximillien Robespierre
42. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Beijing
Darius I
World Bank
Sepoy
43. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.
Balance of power
Mycenae
1848
1271-1295 CE
44. A French Protestant
476 CE
Wheel of Life
Huguenot
1948
45. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.
1861
Enclosure Movement
Battle of Midway
1939
46. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
1905
Mandate of Heaven
Ulama
220 CE
47. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Sun Yat-Sen
1324 CE
John F. Kennedy
Alexander the Great
48. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Zapata
Nubians
Golden Horde
49. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.
Umma
Indian National Congress
1789
Driver
50. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
Muhammad Ali
ziggurat
Crusades
Benito Mussolini