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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Humanism
Umayyad Caliphate
Habsburgs
Delhi Sultanate
2. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)
Yuan Empire
527 CE
Hernan Cortes
Devshirme
3. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.
Fascism
Stone Age
Sun Yat-Sen
Hernan Cortes
4. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).
ideograms
Czar
Ethiopia
1804
5. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)
Monasticism
Octavian
Otto von Bismarck
George Washington
6. 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
Agricultural Revolution
Timur
Peloponnesian War
1979
7. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Cixi
1959
Enlightenment
St. Augustine
8. National socialism. In practice a far-right wing ideology (with some left-wing influences) that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Italian Renaissance
Nazism
Silk Road
9. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Saddam Hussein
Chiang Kai-Shek
Ulama
Tanakh
10. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
Fransisco Pizarro
Nazism
Durbar
Delhi Sulatanate
11. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Mulatto
Habsburgs
Mycenae
Shogun
12. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma
Western Front
Hatshepsut
urbanization
Celts
13. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an
Porfirio Díaz
Gold Coast
Great Western Schism
Stoicism
14. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Lusitania
Gentry
Hellenistic Age
Printing press
15. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.
Nuclear nonproliferation
Mecca
Mechanization
Witchcraft
16. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Wheel of Life
1941
John F. Kennedy
Ghana
17. 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.
Goths
Talmud
Caesar Augustus
Shi Huangdi
18. 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.
Islam
Aztecs
Treaty Ports
Mentuhotep I
19. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Great Zimbabwe
Fourteen Points
Deng Xiaoping
1935
20. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses
Umma
Ghana
Great Zimbabwe
Darius I
21. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Vishnu
Iconoclast
Bourgeoisie
Pilgrims
22. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Durbar
Code of Hammurabi
Daoism
Persian Wars
23. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
deforestation
Imperialism
Concordat
1689
24. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.
OPEC
Siddhartha Gautama
Girondins
Indulgence
25. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
Tiananmen Square
Colonization
Mahayana Buddhism
Weimar Republic
26. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Inca
Bantu
Guomindang
Nation-State
27. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
1956
Maya
Zhou dynasty
Simon Bolivar
28. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
1258 CE
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Salvador Allende
Gothic Cathedrals
29. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
All-India Muslim League
Cultural imperialism
Steam engine
Pax Mongolica
30. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Varna
Empiricism
Pearl Harbor
1517
31. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Jesuits
1325 CE
Constitutional Convention
Concordat
32. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
1914-1918
Minoans
Kepler
Diaspora
33. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
Hundred Years War
Gentry
Augustus
Umayyad Caliphate
34. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon
Bhagavad-Gita
Napoleonic Wars
Tributary system
221 BCE
35. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
1991
Colonialism
Kievan Russia
pictograms
36. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
1488
Pilgrimage
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Joseph Stalin
37. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Carthage
Asante
Macedonia
1588
38. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Industrial Revolution
Imperialism
Mercantilism
Maximillien Robespierre
39. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)
Mycenae
1325 CE
Industrial Revolution
McCarthyism
40. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
John Locke
Scientific Revolution
Sun Yat-sen
Ghana
41. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany
Tao-te Ching
1839
Proxy war
1989
42. Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople (Hint: __53 CE)
Delhi Sulatanate
Mao Zedong
221 BCE
1453 CE
43. A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native America
Ottomans
Meiji Restoration
Encomienda
632 CE
44. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.
Trireme
Mentuhotep I
Collectivization
Habsburg
45. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
1517
Auschwitz
Zoroastrianism
Gentry
46. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Mongols
Capitalism
Tang Revival
Xia
47. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Witch-hunt
Mecca
1861
Great Western Schism
48. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
World Bank
1571
Mandate System
Absolutism
49. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520
vassal
Empress Dowager Cixi
1433 CE
Delhi Sultanate
50. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
ideograms
Little Ice Age
Constitutional Convention
1571