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. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
League of Nations
Balance of Power
Ptolemy
Sub-Saharan Africa
2. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.
Shang Dynasty
1956
Mycenae
Tenochtitlan
3. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures
Stoicism
Ma'at
Helsinki Accords
loess
4. 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.
Ming
Hammurabi
Mercantilism
National Assembly
5. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.
Augustus
Maximillien Robespierre
Patricians
Civilian Conservation Corps
6. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
6th century BCE
Mein Kampf
Olmec
Plato
7. 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.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Aborigine
Druids
32 CE
8. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.
Balfour Declaration
Albert Einstein
Byzantine Empire
Guomindang
9. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Investiture
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Theravada Buddhism
Caste system
10. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)
Persian Wars
Bartolomeu Dias
Silk Road
Nubians
11. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
1271-1295 CE
1095 CE
Assimilation
Olmec
12. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.
4th century CE
Max Planck
Getulio Vargas
333 CE
13. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities
1533
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Delian League
Terrorism
14. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Marie Curie
Manor
Hoplite
Revolutions of 1848
15. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.
1910
Steel
Kepler
Forbidden City
16. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.
Extraterritoriality
Hernan Cortes
Perestroika
Manchuria
17. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
Champa Rice
Mahayana Buddhism
NATO
Francisco Franco
18. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Fascism
Devshirme
Copernicus
Junk
19. 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
Zoroastrianism
Mestizo
Siddhartha Gautama
20. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Maori
Triumvirate
1911
Minoan
21. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
Tanzimat
Neo-Assyrians
Investiture
1967
22. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Gens de couleur
Zionism
Talmud
Ghana
23. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
220 CE
Gupta Empire
John F. Kennedy
Sandinista
24. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Gujarat
Realpolitik
1324 CE
Enclosure Movement
25. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Mulatto
Zoroastrianism
Jamestown
Franz Ferdinand
26. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Zhou dynasty
Ferdinand Magellan
Zoroaster
Nonaligned
27. 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.
Hatshepsut
Mohandas Gandhi
Encomienda
1756
28. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Shinto
Parthians
Empiricism
Theodosius
29. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
Uigurs
1917
Neo-Assyrians
Helsinki Accords
30. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Abbasid Dynasty
Akbar
Reconquista
Sub-Saharan Africa
31. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
Gold Coast
Mass deportation
Young Turks
Nikita Khrushchev
32. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
1949
Wheel of Life
Sun Yat-sen
Steel
33. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
cuneiform
Silk Road
Muhammad Ali
Reconquista
34. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.
Diffusion
Golden Horde
Julius Caesar
Tennis Court Oath
35. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.
Roman Principate
Fidel Castro
Bread and Circuses
Witchcraft
36. 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.
Christopher Columbus
Oracle Bones
Nirvana
Realpolitik
37. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Neo-Assyrians
Jacobins
Steel
Tao-te Ching
38. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
Tao-te Ching
1905
Serf
Laissez faire
39. Date: French Revolution begins
Czar
1789
Helsinki Accords
Guomindang
40. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Cottage industry
Zapata
1776
Mandate of Heaven
41. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Habsburg
1885
Horse collar
Ulama
42. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Cultural imperialism
1066 CE
City state
Daoism
43. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
Alexander the Great
Creoles
Nasir al-Din Tusi
220 CE
44. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Kamikaze
Mestizo
Byzantine Empire
African National Congress
45. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Asoka
Fidel Castro
1987
1959
46. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Monotheism
Leonardo da Vinci
Macartney Mission
Agora
47. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Colonialism
Twelve Tables
Shah Abbas I
Imperialism
48. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Ulama
Shinto
Columbian Exchange
632 CE
49. 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.
1861
Balfour Declaration
Pilgrimage
Artha-sastra
50. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Divine Right of Kings
Shinto
Mercantilism
Enconmienda
Sorry!:) No result found.
Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?
Let me suggest you:
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests
Major Subjects
Tests & Exams
AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT
Certifications
CISSP go to https://www.isc2.org/
PMP
ITIL
RHCE
MCTS
More...
IT Skills
Android Programming
Data Modeling
Objective C Programming
Basic Python Programming
Adobe Illustrator
More...
Business Skills
Advertising Techniques
Business Accounting Basics
Business Strategy
Human Resource Management
Marketing Basics
More...
Soft Skills
Body Language
People Skills
Public Speaking
Persuasion
Job Hunting And Resumes
More...
Vocabulary
GRE Vocab
SAT Vocab
TOEFL Essential Vocab
Basic English Words For All
Global Words You Should Know
Business English
More...
Languages
AP German Vocab
AP Latin Vocab
SAT Subject Test: French
Italian Survival
Norwegian Survival
More...
Engineering
Audio Engineering
Computer Science Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Structural Engineering
More...
Health Sciences
Basic Nursing Skills
Health Science Language Fundamentals
Veterinary Technology Medical Language
Cardiology
Clinical Surgery
More...
English
Grammar Fundamentals
Literary And Rhetorical Vocab
Elements Of Style Vocab
Introduction To English Major
Complete Advanced Sentences
Literature
Homonyms
More...
Math
Algebra Formulas
Basic Arithmetic: Measurements
Metric Conversions
Geometric Properties
Important Math Facts
Number Sense Vocab
Business Math
More...
Other Major Subjects
Science
Economics
History
Law
Performing-arts
Cooking
Logic & Reasoning
Trivia
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests