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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
Pericles
Humanists
Peloponnesian War
Charlemagne
2. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Printing press
Muhammad Ali
1324 CE
Separate Spheres
3. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
Golden Horde
Scientific Revolution
Ayatollah Khomeini
Manumission
4. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
Humanism
1945
Triumvirate
Confucianism
5. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
333 CE
1488
Napoleonic Wars
Charles de Gaulle
6. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)
Jainism
Steam engine
1991
Talmud
7. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Suez Canal
Tang Revival
Hernan Cortes
Enconmienda
8. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iron curtain
Mongol Empire
Ayatollah Khomeini
Mita
9. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.
Fertile Crescent
Bread and Circuses
Winston Churchill
Copernicus
10. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Olmec
Papyrus
Emperor Menelik
11. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.
Korean War
Yurt
Taiping Rebellion
Iron curtain
12. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Mycenae
Samsara
John Locke
Winston Churchill
13. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Shang
Great Zimbabwe
Olmec
Sub-Saharan Africa
14. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Isfahan
1931
Ibn Khaldun
Labor union
15. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Neolithic
WTO
Golden Horde
Witch-hunt
16. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.
Pericles
476 CE
George Washington
Taiping Rebellion
17. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
Talmud
1954
John F. Kennedy
League of Nations
18. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
Legalism
Neocolonialism
Parthians
Christopher Columbus
19. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.
Repartimiento
Columbian Exchange
Humanism
Suez Canal
20. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)
Protestant Reformation
1949
1776
Assimilation
21. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t
Opium Wars
Yuan Empire
Tamil Kingdoms
pictograms
22. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.
Collectivization
Hinduism
Jose Morelos
1271-1295 CE
23. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Druids
Muscovy
632 CE
Sun Yat-sen
24. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Colonialism
Macartney Mission
Nikita Khrushchev
Timur
25. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state
hadith
Asoka
1789
Aristotle
26. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
323 BCE
The Mahdi
Patricians
Jacobins
27. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
Buddhism
George Washington
Caesar Augustus
Timur
28. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.
Movable type
1967
Franz Ferdinand
Jacobins
29. 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.
Sigmund Freud
Buddhism
Janissaries
Constitutional Convention
30. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri
ziggurat
Sepoy Mutiny
Karma
Colombian Exchange
31. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)
Republic
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Kepler
1492
32. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
Economic sanctions
Yellow River
Abbasid Dynasty
Tito
33. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Song Dynasty
Humanism
Mestizo
Revolutions of 1848
34. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
Hammurabi
Suez Canal
220 CE
cuneiform
35. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Sanskrit
Jacobins
Fransisco Pizarro
Mein Kampf
36. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
Sun Yat-Sen
Gold Coast
Armenia
NATO
37. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Polis
Dirty War
pictograms
Albert Einstein
38. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Maya
Sandinista
Umma
Shi Huangdi
39. The central text of Daoism.
Memphis
Emilano Zapata
Tao-te Ching
Enconmienda
40. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Delhi Sulatanate
Caravel
Bread and Circuses
Kamikaze
41. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
Macedonia
Thomas Malthus
Agricultural Revolution
Mamluks
42. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Khipu
McCarthyism
Encomienda
Girondins
43. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog
Jainism
Muslim
Syncretism
1863
44. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
Adolf Hitler
Postmodernism
Monophysites
Opium Wars
45. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Mahabharata
Atahualpa
1885
St. Augustine
46. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
National Assembly
Quran
Stone Age
1929
47. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)
Socrates
Byzantine Empire
Malay
Peloponnesian War
48. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.
Yuan Empire
Marco Polo
Labor union
Black Death
49. 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
1941
Persian Wars
1488
50. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.
Maya
Mahayana Buddhism
1861
1898