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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Silk Road
1919
Minoan
2. Branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Mainly found in Iran and a small part of Iraq. It is the state religion of Iran. A member of this group is called a Shi'ite.
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3. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Civilian Conservation Corps
Joesph Stalin
Tribute system
Four Noble Truths
4. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
Chinampas
Simon Bolivar
Bartolome de Las Casas
1756
5. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
Artha-sastra
Enconmienda
6. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Puritans
Maori
Asian Tigers
1095 CE
7. 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.
Vedas
Hatshepsut
Dirty War
Bourgeoisie
8. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
Inca
Kepler
Napoleonic Wars
Sudetenland
9. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
Abbasid Caliphate
1954
Mahabharata
Sanskrit
10. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
Enconmienda
1947
1618
Confucianism
11. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Jizya
732 CE
Henry the Navigator
Perestroika
12. 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.
Printing press
Roman Republic
Teotihuacan
Shang Dynasty
13. 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
Mentuhotep I
1517
Neocolonialism
Golden Horde
14. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)
Postmodernism
1885
Minoan
Korean War
15. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
Mercantilism
Yellow River
McCarthyism
Ibn Khaldun
16. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
Guild
Woodrow Wilson
32 CE
Theravada Buddhism
17. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Shinto
Sun Yat-Sen
Atlantic System
Bourgeoisie
18. 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
Fertile Crescent
Treaty of Nanking
Mandate System
Muslim
19. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
Hundred Years War
Caste system
Czar
1300 BCE
20. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)
Shinto
Napoleonic Wars
Great Western Schism
Iron curtain
21. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Yin and yang
John Locke
Enclosure Movement
Yellow River
22. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Christopher Columbus
Xia
Witch-hunt
pictograms
23. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Byzantine Empire
Pax Romana
Champa Rice
Winston Churchill
24. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Apostle Paul
Hiroshima
Sasanid Empire
Columbian Exchange
25. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Habsburgs
Chinampas
Horse collar
Huns
26. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
Emperor Menelik
Electricity
Tributary system
King Leopold II King of Belgium
27. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.
Memphis
Ziggurat
Gujarat
Nomad
28. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Kievan Russia
Mali
Constitutional Convention
Bourgeoisie
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.
Mandate of Heaven
Suez Canal
Janissaries
Treaty Ports
30. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Caravel
Leonardo da Vinci
Gold Coast
31. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
Ayatollah Khomeini
Cold War
New Economic Policy
Pilgrimage
32. 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.
1991
Martin Luther
Asoka
Plebeians
33. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.
Iroquois Confederacy
1950
Ming
Alexandria
34. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Vladimir Lenin
Rama
2001
Assimilation
35. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Medieval
Ghana
Umma
Hegemony
36. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.
Saddam Hussein
Sumer
Roman Republic
Pax Romana
37. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Tribune
Macedonia
Zhou Dynasty
Holocaust
38. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Mandate of Heaven
Daoism
Zheng He
Zionism
39. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Teotihuacan
1533
Jesuits
Bread and Circuses
40. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
Joint-stock company
Legalism
Persian Wars
Constitutional Convention
41. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Ghana
Siddhartha Gautama
Khomeini
1517
42. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Bolsheviks
Zoroastrianism
Franklin D. Roosevelt
43. 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
Ziggurat
Song Dynasty
Rama
Industrial Revolution
44. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Joint-stock company
Manumission
Holocaust
Semitic
45. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Pancho Villa
Republic
Mahabharata
Bourgeoisie
46. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
5th century BCE
1607
Teotihuacan
Vasco da Gama
47. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
Benito Mussolini
Socialists
WTO
Cossaks
48. Date: end of WWII
Sepoy Mutiny
1945
Crystal Palace
1885
49. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
Maximillien Robespierre
Epic of Gilgamesh
Puranas
Repartimiento
50. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
Conquistadors
Abbasid Dynasty
Qing Empire
Grand Canal