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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th
Tang Empire
Sepoy
Leonardo da Vinci
Muscovy
2. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
Yongle
Stoicism
Umma
Empress Dowager Cixi
3. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
10000 BCE
1910
Steam engine
Balfour Declaration
4. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Mita
Jacobins
Juan Peron
Montezuma II
5. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Timur
Jesuits
Hinduism
Bantu
6. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
1492
1899
Shah Abbas I
Fidel Castro
7. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
Daoism
Ayatollah Khomeini
1987
3000s BCE
8. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Bartolome de Las Casas
Colonization
1324 CE
Girondins
9. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
Fascist Party
Charlemagne
Leonid Brezhnev
Zulu
10. 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.
Aztecs
Rajputs
Cecil Rhodes
180 CE
11. 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.
Divination
Muscovy
1899
1071 CE
12. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Safavid Empire
Samurai
Khubilai Khan
Diaspora
13. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Modernization
Caravel
Minoans
Martin Luther
14. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Josiah Wedgwood
Max Planck
Joint-stock company
Printing press
15. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
Tokugawa Shogunate
1989
Monophysites
Charlemagne
16. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age
Stone Age
Cixi
Hammurabi
Bartholomew Dias
17. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
1979
Hieroglyphics
Nongovernmental Organizations
Quran
18. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
1905
Helsinki Accords
Macedonia
1789
19. 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.
Trireme
Royal African Company
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Holocaust
20. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Cossaks
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1488
Albert Einstein
21. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Rama
Congress of Vienna
Harappa
Nehru
22. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Sumerians
2001
Zhou dynasty
Gujarat
23. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Pericles
Guomindang
Hieroglyphics
476 CE
24. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
Tokugawa Shogunate
Colonization
Realpolitik
Twelve Tables
25. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)
1885
Hellenistic Age
Qing Empire
Buddhism
26. 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.
220 CE
Hatshepsut
Indentured servitude
Mahabharata
27. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.
Democracy
African National Congress
Weimar Republic
1910
28. Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws - inscribed on a black stone pillar - illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
Hiroshima
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Umayyad Caliphate
Hammurabi
29. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
Babylon
1989
Ghana
Twelve Tables
30. 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.
NATO
Timur
Minoans
Cuban Missile Crisis
31. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
Hieroglyphics
Diaspora
Babylon
Manchuria
32. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Berlin Blockade
Diaspora
Muhammad
Mansa Musa
33. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Hernan Cortes
1071 CE
Sikhs
Holocaust
34. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
1885
McCarthyism
Wheel of Life
Neo-Assyrians
35. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Economic sanctions
Macartney Mission
Columbian Exchange
36. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
hadith
Ghana
Silk Road
Parthians
37. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Solomon's Temple
Great Zimbabwe
Bartholomew Dias
Glorious Revolution
38. 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.
Three-field system
Armenia
Carthage
Mulatto
39. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Goths
Buddha
Empress Wu
Tiananmen Square
40. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1861
Confucianism
Medina
Comfort girls
41. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Cortes
Benito Mussolini
Abolition
Minoans
42. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Hegemony
Western Front
Chinampas
Republic
43. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
Mahayana Buddhism
1948
City state
Zoroastrianism
44. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)
Prince Henry The Navigator
Chiang Kai-Shek
Deng Xiaoping
NATO
45. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Asian Tigers
Holocaust
Karma
Aztecs
46. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
1815
Rigveda
Ibn Battuta
Suez Canal
47. 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)
Maori
Yurt
Hundred Years War
Absolutism
48. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
urbanization
Sunnis
Third World
Habsburgs
49. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Driver
Josiah Wedgwood
Hanseatic League
Fransisco Pizarro
50. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Getulio Vargas
Druids
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
pictograms