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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Twelve Tables
Augustus
Leonardo da Vinci
Ulama
2. 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
Mali
Janissaries
Sun Yat-sen
Monophysites
3. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
1324 CE
Janissary
Jainism
1931
4. 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.
1905
Rigveda
Laissez Faire
Holy Roman Empire
5. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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6. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Zapata
Jenne-jeno
Creole
1300 BCE
7. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Shakespeare
Byzantine Empire
1898
8. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
WTO
Proxy war
Jenne-Jeno
1910
9. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam
Sufi
Hydrogen bomb
Acropolis
Tennis Court Oath
10. 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
Asian Tigers
Habsburgs
Cultural Revolution
11. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Sunnis
Woodrow Wilson
Balance of power
1994
12. 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)
Hundred Years War
Zapata
Guilds
Mecca
13. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Glorious Revolution
Pilgrimage
1071 CE
Tanzimat
14. Controversy Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands.
Laissez faire
Investiture
Jesus
Tang Empire
15. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
1950
Umma
Huns
Habsburg
16. 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
League of Nations
The Golden Triangle
Pax Romana
Vishnu
17. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Catholic Reformation
Asoka
Safavid Empire
Scientific Revolution
18. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
Monsoon
Scholasticism
Taiping Rebellion
Philip II
19. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
Afrikaners
Berlin Conference
Constantinople
2001
20. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Albert Einstein
Samurai
Colonization
Imperialism
21. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.
Mohandas Gandhi
10000 BCE
Otto von Bismarck
Solidarity
22. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)
Zionism
Tribune
527 CE
Alexandria
23. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
Divine Right of Kings
Legalism
Scholasticism
24. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Glorious Revolution
Sepoy Mutiny
Zulu
Girondins
25. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)
Fresco
Mauryan Empire
Royal African Company
Zoroaster
26. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
1683
Leonardo da Vinci
Chavin
Maya
27. 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.
Five Year Plans
Separate Spheres
Hatshepsut
Swahili
28. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
Guomindang
1941
Pancho Villa
St. Augustine
29. 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.
Nuremberg Trials
liberalism
Chavin
Fresco
30. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Hieroglyphics
Asian Tigers
Vladimir Lenin
Yuan Empire
31. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
Macedonia
Mahabharata
1756
32. The founder of Buddhism
Pax Romana
Mesopotamia
Mycenae
Siddhartha Gautama
33. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S
Capitalism
Mahabharata
Sandinista
Octavian
34. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the
1905
Khipu
Mestizo
Diocletian
35. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.
Mauryan Empire
Four Noble Truths
Song Dynasty
Pancho Villa
36. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear
Cixi
Karma
Armenia
1607
37. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Stoicism
Hundred Years War
Gentry
1911
38. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Christopher Columbus
1815
Hadith
Safavid Persia
39. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
1848
assimilation
Maori
Dutch West India Company
40. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Republic
Junk
Buddhism
Patricians
41. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Stoicism
Aztecs
Zapata
Minoans
42. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
James Watt
Steppes
Albert Einstein
Benito Mussolini
43. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Habsburgs
Great Zimbabwe
Song Dynasty
Serf
44. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Hernan Cortes
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Octavian
Horse collar
45. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
1300 BCE
Rigveda
Jenne-jeno
Yellow River
46. 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
1776
Constitutional Convention
Beijing
47. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Memphis
The Mahdi
Durbar
Caliphate
48. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
632 CE
Jesus
Nehru
Economic sanctions
49. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
Aswan High Dam
Fidel Castro
Monsoon
Stalingrad
50. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
Rama
Iron curtain
Hinduism
Suez Canal