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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Stalingrad
OPEC
Cold War
Mesopotamia
2. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Teotihuacan
1095 CE
Talmud
Cultural Revolution
3. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Silk Road
632 CE
Electricity
Middle Passage
4. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name
Cyrus II
Divination
1911
Nehru
5. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
1839
Bolsheviks
1517
Stoicism
6. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.
Memphis
Guild
Rigveda
Mohandas Gandhi
7. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Uigurs
Rama
Albert Einstein
Hellenistic
8. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
Zulu
1945
Khmer Empire
Medina
9. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
Roman Principate
Theravada Buddhism
1607
Mesopotamia
10. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Papyrus
476 CE
Railroads
Abbasid Caliphate
11. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America
1839
Neocolonialism
Aqueduct
Bread and Circuses
12. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.
Cotton
Columbian Exchange
Holocaust
Keiretsu
13. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Hoplite
1683
Kievan Russia
Timur
14. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Shamanism
Fertile Crescent
Josiah Wedgwood
Porfirio Díaz
15. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
Ottomans
Chavin
Buddhism
Constitutionalism
16. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
1948
Habsburgs
Western Front
Capitalism
17. Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste - and Akbar I married a Rajput princess.
1683
Sasanid Empire
Rajputs
Mestizo
18. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
Gold Coast
220 CE
Mandate of Heaven
Fidel Castro
19. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Pancho Villa
Kievan Russia
Mandate System
Mao Zedong
20. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
1949
Bourgeoisie
Sun Yat-Sen
Great Zimbabwe
21. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Extraterritoriality
Middle Passage
Mercantilism
1911
22. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
Islam
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Leonid Brezhnev
Hammurabi
23. 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.
Nehru
Fascism
Mechanization
Ming
24. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Ma'at
Republic
Hydrogen bomb
Balance of power
25. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Suez Canal
Mestizo
Acropolis
Cossaks
26. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
Kamikaze
City state
Cyrus II
Tribune
27. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.
cuneiform
Richard Arkwright
1959
Shinto
28. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Sikhism
Manumission
1853
Mestizo
29. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
House of Burgesses
Maya
1324 CE
10000 BCE
30. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S
Simon Bolivar
Ibn Battuta
Cottage industry
Capitalism
31. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Byzantine Empire
Middle Passage
Legalism
Herodotus
32. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
Cambyses II
Atlantic System
Olmec
1905
33. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.
Thomas Edison
Tribute system
Asante
Chiefdom
34. Date: Stock Market Crash
Liu Bang
ethnic cleansing
1929
Celts
35. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America
Empress Dowager Cixi
The Golden Triangle
Emperor Menelik
Italian Renaissance
36. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Moksha
Nonaligned
Porfirio Díaz
Bolsheviks
37. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Benito Mussolini
Khmer Empire
Mycenae
Gold Coast
38. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices
Code of Hammurabi
Peloponnesian War
Syncretism
Treaty of Nanking
39. 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.
Scholasticism
Agricultural Revolution
Akbar
Chinampas
40. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia
Zen
Janapadas
Alexander the Great
1347 CE
41. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
Sanskrit
Theravada Buddhism
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mycenae
42. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights
Estates General
Fascism
Panama Canal
220 CE
43. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
1857
NATO
George Washington
Tito
44. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga
Revolutions of 1848
Steam engine
Pericles
Durbar
45. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Tao-te Ching
Great Zimbabwe
Hernan Cortes
Agricultural Revolution
46. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
95 Theses
Siddhartha Gautama
Adolf Hitler
732 CE
47. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.
Yurt
Mercantilism
Janissaries
Hinduism
48. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Repartimiento
Rigveda
Leonardo da Vinci
180 CE
49. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1871
Three-field system
Charlemagne
Girondins
50. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
Inca
Junk
1910
Prince Henry The Navigator