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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Mongol Empire
Muscovy
Diffusion
Middle Passage
2. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Pax Romana
Hebrew Bible
Polis
Triumvirate
3. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics
Separate Spheres
Malay
Zhou dynasty
Proxy war
4. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Cold War
Alexander the Great
Creole
Gupta Empire
5. 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.
Papyrus
ideograms
Tao-te Ching
Great Zimbabwe
6. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Zulu
1911
Mita
95 Theses
7. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
1488
Celts
loess
Muscovy
8. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
Ulama
ziggurat
Hinduism
Maya
9. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
1300 BCE
assimilation
Zhou Dynasty
Diaspora
10. German leader of the Nazi Party
Getulio Vargas
Adolf Hitler
Simon Bolivar
Crusades
11. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.
Bartholomew Dias
Three-field system
Varna
WTO
12. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.
1521
Zheng He
Scramble for Africa
Ghana
13. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi
Romanization
Qing Empire
Dar al-Islam
Industrial Revolution
14. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Safavid Persia
French Revolution
Socrates
Jamestown
15. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Agora
Muhammad
Ghana
1941
16. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Buddha
Treaty of Versailles
Deism
Silk Road
17. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Ming
Colonization
Plato
Leonardo da Vinci
18. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
ethnic cleansing
Ziggurat
Estates General
Babylon
19. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
cuneiform
Henry the Navigator
Theravada Buddhism
1853
20. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Manchuria
Copernicus
Bread and Circuses
1517
21. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Herodotus
Proxy war
Third World
Empress Wu
22. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.
Witchcraft
National Assembly
Byzantine Empire
Steppes
23. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.
Scientific Revolution
Mohandas Gandhi
Cecil Rhodes
1853
24. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
McCarthyism
Gunpowder
1885
1950
25. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.
Romanization
Berlin Blockade
Simon Bolivar
Jenne-Jeno
26. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Chavin
Vasco da Gama
Hoplite
Hellenistic
27. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Great Zimbabwe
Cottage industry
Bourgeoisie
Satrapy
28. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Gulag
1300 BCE
National Assembly
Emilio Aguinaldo
29. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Shogun
Samurai
Janissaries
Electricity
30. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.
Keiretsu
ethnic cleansing
Tenochtitlan
Papacy
31. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Indulgences
1987
1258 CE
Humanism
32. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Janapadas
Driver
Third World
1756
33. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Mao Zedong
Empress Dowager Cixi
1492
Safavid Empire
34. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Rigveda
Benito Mussolini
Herodotus
Teotihuacan
35. Date: Korean War starts
Zhou
Mercantilism
1950
Akbar
36. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Bartholomew Dias
Monophysites
Economic sanctions
Warsaw Pact
37. 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
Umayyad Caliphate
1607
1810s
38. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
1979
1588
1324 CE
Darius I
39. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Centuries
Scientific Revolution
Abbasid Dynasty
40. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
1815
Mestizo
Khipu
Hiroshima
41. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.
Persian Wars
Dar al-Islam
Constantine
Confucianism
42. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Bread and Circuses
Hydrogen bomb
Imperialism
Forbidden City
43. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Hacienda
Otto von Bismarck
Balance of power
Marie Curie
44. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon
Tributary system
Sub-Saharan Africa
Gothic Cathedrals
Napoleonic Wars
45. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
Silk Road
McCarthyism
Guilds
1948
46. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
Totalitarianism
Akhenaten
Franz Ferdinand
Plebeians
47. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
Gupta Empire
Black Death
Gujarat
2001
48. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.
Leonid Brezhnev
Comfort girls
Max Planck
Hieroglyphics
49. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
221 BCE
Copernicus
Alexander the Great
Olmec
50. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Empress Wu
Fourteen Points
Investiture
Young Turks