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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
McCarthyism
Confucius
Ptolemy
1959
2. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Indian National Congress
Hittites
Enconmienda
Mecca
3. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
The Golden Triangle
Economic sanctions
Teotihuacan
4. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing
Indian National Congress
Congress of Vienna
Vedas
5. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
Panama Canal
1871
New Economic Policy
Carthage
6. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.
Balance of power
Semitic
1898
Beijing
7. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Empress Wu
Civilian Conservation Corps
Jesuits
Adolf Hitler
8. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach
Telegraph
Emperor Menelik
Tang Revival
Indentured servitude
9. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Centuries
Taiping Rebellion
Benito Mussolini
Habsburgs
10. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.
Simon Bolivar
Korean War
Khubilai Khan
Mughal Empire
11. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Agricultural Revolution
1931
Medieval
Tokugawa Shogunate
12. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Islam
Panama Canal
Darius I
Oracle Bones
13. 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.
1804
Tao-te Ching
Varna
Congress of Vienna
14. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Peloponnesian War
1533
1325 CE
Monasticism
15. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
1931
Yurt
Varna
Industrial Revolution
16. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Olmec
Economic sanctions
Umma
17. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Constantinople
Zimmerman telegram
Emperor Menelik
Tennis Court Oath
18. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
Mass deportation
Asian Tigers
Little Ice Age
Kamikaze
19. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Economic sanctions
Aryans
Witchcraft
Malay
20. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Cossaks
Great Circuit
Richard Arkwright
Khipu
21. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Faisal
Pericles
Gens de couleur
Helsinki Accords
22. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Herodotus
1899
Sub-Saharan Africa
Totalitarianism
23. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
1861
Bantu
Monophysites
Martin Luther
24. 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
Hammurabi
Creole
loess
Goths
25. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Babylonian Empire
Durbar
Zoroaster
Ulama
26. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
1066 CE
Gothic Cathedrals
Hellenistic
Socialists
27. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
1756
European Community
Winston Churchill
Mesopotamia
28. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Oracle Bones
Ibn Khaldun
Ghana
Nikita Khrushchev
29. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Fascist Party
Deism
Mahayana Buddhism
Pilgrimage
30. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Atahualpa
Hittites
Cultural imperialism
Emilano Zapata
31. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)
Manumission
Zimmerman telegram
Atlantic System
Sepoy Mutiny
32. Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the in these cities - foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Indulgences
Balance of Power
Treaty Ports
33. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
Maori
1919
Young Turks
Janapadas
34. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
Benito Mussolini
Albert Einstein
Balance of Power
Terrorism
35. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.
Mamluks
Umma
vassal
Gunpowder
36. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
1492
1857
Mita
Mandate of Heaven
37. The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region.
Max Planck
Chavin
Roman Senate
Hanseatic League
38. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.
Timur
Goths
Hoplite
Mantra
39. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.
Bolshevik
Vladimir Lenin
Sepoy
Yongle
40. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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41. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Great Circuit
Imperialism
Botany Bay
Pancho Villa
42. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
1488
Jesus
Middle Passage
Hieroglyphics
43. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo
Bartolome de Las Casas
Fascism
Memphis
Industrial Revolution
44. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.
Ma'at
Fascism
Indulgences
Muhammad
45. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice
1956
Stone Age
Confucianism
Mycenae
46. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Enlightenment
Constitutionalism
Enclosure Movement
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
47. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities - headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806.
vassal
Holy Roman Empire
Porfirio Díaz
Qin
48. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Philosophes
Nirvana
Alexander the Great
49. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
Mao Zedong
Warsaw Pact
1258 CE
220 CE
50. 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.
Indulgence
Timur
Atlantic System
Umma