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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Safavid Empire
Gothic Cathedrals
1756
Samurai
2. 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
Benito Mussolini
Jose Morelos
The Golden Triangle
Cultural Revolution
3. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
John F. Kennedy
United Nations
Middle Passage
1325 CE
4. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred
OPEC
221 BCE
Dar al-Islam
Solon
5. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
NATO
Tang Empire
Artha-sastra
1347 CE
6. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.
Bolsheviks
Karl Marx
Tribune
Sufi
7. 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
Italian Renaissance
Celts
New Economic Policy
Keiretsu
8. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
Socrates
1948
Maya
323 BCE
9. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Ulama
Jenne-Jeno
Guilds
Tanakh
10. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
Gunpowder
Song Dynasty
Armenia
Bantu
11. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Victorian Age
Oracle Bones
Buddhism
Hammurabi
12. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Persepolis
Monasticism
Balance of power
Hieroglyphics
13. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Stalingrad
Hiroshima
Hittites
Investiture
14. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)
Mechanization
Absolutism
Stock exchange
Ming
15. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
Jainism
1857
Hydrogen bomb
Nonaligned
16. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
1810s
Daoism
Humanists
1618
17. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Vedas
Zulu
Charles Darwin
Marie Curie
18. 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.
Mass deportation
Meiji Restoration
Fertile Crescent
1947
19. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Joseph Stalin
Janissary
Qin
Diffusion
20. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Socialists
Timur
Umma
Henry the Navigator
21. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Qing Empire
Scholasticism
Hittites
Peloponnesian War
22. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
1905
Mecca
Terrorism
Delhi Sulatanate
23. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Deism
Mamluks
Samsara
liberalism
24. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Apostle Paul
Lusitania
Aryans
Jenne-jeno
25. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
1967
Akhenaten
Humanism
French Revolution
26. A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.
cuneiform
Tiananmen Square
Timur
Enlightenment
27. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o
Bengal
Fidel Castro
National Assembly
3000s BCE
28. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Serbia
Aztecs
Solidarity
29. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125
Mamluks
Comfort girls
cuneiform
Ziggurat
30. The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia - where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community.
Constantine
Benito Mussolini
Glorious Revolution
Umma
31. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Dirty War
Zulu
Abbasid Dynasty
Ayatollah Khomeini
32. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
1919
Tang Revival
Vedas
Persian Wars
33. 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)
Socrates
Great Western Schism
Empress Dowager Cixi
Darius I
34. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Sufi
Sepoy Mutiny
Cottage industry
Shogun
35. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Gentry
Sokoto Caliphate
Asante
Long March
36. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people
Muslim
Porfirio Díaz
Nongovernmental Organizations
Victorian Age
37. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Song Dynasty
1989
Durbar
Medina
38. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Fascist Party
Cultural Revolution
Benjamin Franklin
Bantu
39. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Mandate of Heaven
1517
Little Ice Age
Humanism
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.
Zhou dynasty
Joint-stock company
3000s BCE
Nazca
41. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.
Tenochtitlan
George Washington
Caesar Augustus
Simon Bolivar
42. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Hernan Cortes
George Washington
Ramesses II
Treaty of Versailles
43. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Fransisco Pizarro
Isfahan
Consul
Silk Road
44. 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.
Chiefdom
1756
Democracy
Mansa Musa
45. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
1931
Hittites
Postmodernism
Papyrus
46. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities
Yellow Turban
Monophysites
Indian Civil Service
Delian League
47. Political units in India in the years 700-600 BC. They are the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India. They are the earliest kingdoms set up by the Indo-Aryans migrants to India.
Mali
Little Ice Age
Janapadas
Umma
48. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Thebes
Serf
Dalai Lama
Habsburg
49. 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
Zaibatsu
Neocolonialism
Ottomans
Fascism
50. 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.
Guomindang
Cortes
Julius Caesar
Kepler