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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Sasanid Empire
1756
Sepoy Mutiny
Vasco da Gama
2. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Abolition
League of Nations
Semitic
Ziggurat
3. 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.
1861
Alexandria
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iroquois Confederacy
4. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)
Capitalism
1502
Aborigine
Mahayana Buddhism
5. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Scientific Revolution
1521
Perestroika
McCarthyism
6. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.
World Bank
Comfort girls
Hieroglyphics
Indentured servitude
7. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very
Siddhartha Gautama
Khipu
Christopher Columbus
Empress Dowager Cixi
8. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.
Albert Einstein
Christopher Columbus
Tokugawa Shogunate
Fresco
9. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt
Panama Canal
cuneiform
Siddhartha Gautama
Cambyses II
10. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Treaty of Versailles
Acropolis
Colonization
Neo-Assyrians
11. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.
Steel
Gens de couleur
Napoleonic Wars
Eva Peron
12. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Empiricism
1989
1954
Babylon
13. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.
Mestizo
Diaspora
3000s BCE
Movable type
14. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
Darius I
Carthage
Jacobins
Salvador Allende
15. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
Mita
hadith
Olmec
1939
16. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
Afrikaners
Hatshepsut
Tribute system
Pearl Harbor
17. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.
3000s BCE
Medieval
Mohandas Gandhi
Zionism
18. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Constantine
Carthage
Yuan Empire
1956
19. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Neo-Assyrians
Daoism
Sumer
Shamanism
20. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
1271-1295 CE
Lama
Forbidden City
Mein Kampf
21. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US
Cotton
Tito
Yin and yang
Caste system
22. 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
Byzantine Empire
Muslim
Creole
Four Noble Truths
23. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Jesuits
Sumer
Mass deportation
Jenne-Jeno
24. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Prince Henry The Navigator
Colonization
Industrial Revolution
Constantine
25. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
Helsinki Accords
Forbidden City
1871
League of Nations
26. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Marco Polo
Chiang Kai-Shek
Hatshepsut
Liu Bang
27. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Auschwitz
Atahualpa
Divine Right of Kings
28. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Theodosius
323 BCE
Stock exchange
Josiah Wedgwood
29. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.
legalism
Atlantic System
Collectivization
Mohenjo-Daro
30. 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.
Roman Principate
urbanization
Vladimir Lenin
The Golden Triangle
31. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Horse collar
Zulu
Sub-Saharan Africa
1607
32. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
1857
Jesuits
Nazism
Third World
33. 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
Perestroika
Zaibatsu
Fascism
34. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
323 BCE
Twelve Tables
Tang Revival
Hundred Years War
35. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mauryan Empire
Aristotle
Ayatollah Khomeini
Roman Senate
36. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Tenochtitlan
Mercantilism
Proxy war
Vladimir Lenin
37. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Aborigine
Daoism
New Economic Policy
Enlightenment
38. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
Safavid Empire
Meiji Restoration
urbanization
Caliphate
39. 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.
Tenochtitlan
Mahabharata
Charles Darwin
Nomad
40. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Shamanism
Ptolemy
Ma'at
Buddha
41. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Rama
Manumission
Manchus
Tamil Kingdoms
42. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Socialists
WTO
Benito Mussolini
Octavian
43. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.
Tamil Kingdoms
Jacobins
1839
Divination
44. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Mentuhotep I
Hacienda
Vedas
1300 BCE
45. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Iconoclast
Rama
Hellenistic
Holocaust
46. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Silk Road
Delhi
Empress Wu
Opium Wars
47. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Stoicism
Atlantic System
Mein Kampf
1492
48. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Diffusion
1810s
Code of Hammurabi
Great Western Schism
49. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
Minoan
1848
Balance of power
Assimilation
50. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
St. Augustine
Macartney Mission
Jacobins
5th century BCE