SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
AP World History
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
history
,
ap
,
bvat
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Cixi
Imperialism
Henry the Navigator
732 CE
2. 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
Ulama
1945
Cultural Revolution
3. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.
Congress of Vienna
Mercantilism
Dharma
Durbar
4. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)
Atlantic System
Harappa
Abolition
Sasanid Empire
5. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Ibn Battuta
Gens de couleur
Safavid Persia
Puritans
6. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.
Humanism
Battle of Midway
Montezuma II
Ming
7. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Postmodernism
United Nations
Three-field system
Imperialism
8. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
Botany Bay
Janissaries
Ulama
Republic
9. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.
Babylon
1789
Enlightenment
Devshirme
10. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Caravel
Hinduism
Concordat
1517
11. 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.
Papacy
Cottage industry
Mycenae
Philosophes
12. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
Suez Canal
Bourgeoisie
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Mandate of Heaven
13. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Caravel
Sufi
Romanization
Guild
14. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Ziggurat
Fascist Party
220 CE
Abbasid Caliphate
15. 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.
Nonaligned
1967
Satrapy
assimilation
16. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Aristotle
Muhammad
Junk
Christopher Columbus
17. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami
Laissez faire
Balance of Power
Sanskrit
Bourgeoisie
18. 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.
Sandinistas
Indian Ocean
Charlemagne
Manumission
19. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Repartimiento
Concordat
Mohenjo-Daro
Jacobins
20. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
Parthians
Samurai
Yellow Turban
Mauryan Empire
21. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the
Diocletian
Fourteen Points
1956
Juan Peron
22. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
Mohandas Gandhi
Monsoon
Persia
Chinampas
23. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Middle Passage
Moksha
Totalitarianism
Ibn Khaldun
24. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety - fulfill vows - or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions - such as the Muslim journey to Mecca.
African National Congress
Napoleon Bonaparte
1948
Pilgrimage
25. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Enlightenment
Zhou dynasty
Malay
Neolithic
26. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
Separate Spheres
Samurai
Submarine telegraph cables
27. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.
NATO
Cortes
Paterfamilias
Lusitania
28. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
1989
Habsburgs
Prince Henry The Navigator
Simon Bolivar
29. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.
Bourgeoisie
Porfirio Díaz
Nation-State
Mongol Empire
30. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
Ulama
Byzantine Empire
Buddhism
Creoles
31. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Bhagavad-Gita
Benjamin Franklin
1810s
Ghana
32. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.
Serbia
Railroads
Babylonian Empire
Semitic
33. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
Deng Xiaoping
1987
Lama
1588
34. Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.
Mansa Musa
Proxy wars
Mahabharata
Consul
35. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Joesph Stalin
Bengal
Muhammad
Chinampas
36. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.
Western Front
Constantine
Printing press
Papacy
37. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.
Nehru
Taiping Rebellion
Imperialism
Tang Revival
38. 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.
Laissez Faire
Bantu
Reconquista
Tenochtitlan
39. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Medieval
Ma'at
Muhammad
Shogun
40. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
Medina
1488
1839
6th century BCE
41. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
1054 CE
1914-1918
Augustus
Mulatto
42. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
Rigveda
Korean War
Fascist Party
Indulgences
43. 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.
Albert Einstein
1948
Shogun
Roman Senate
44. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Kamikaze
Montezuma II
Modernization
Berlin Blockade
45. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
Hammurabi
Industrial Revolution
Long March
Delhi Sulatanate
46. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Delhi Sulatanate
Khmer Empire
Henry the Navigator
Mahabharata
47. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
Sumerians
Mandate System
New Economic Policy
Balance of power
48. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Lama
Manumission
Paleolithic
Laissez faire
49. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Atahualpa
Royal African Company
George Washington
Three-field system
50. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Iconoclast
Jizya
Semitic
Congress of Vienna