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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Jizya
Swahili
Julius Caesar
Stock exchange
2. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Pearl Harbor
Zhou dynasty
1899
Tributary system
3. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Persepolis
Sumer
Gentry
Diffusion
4. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
Theravada Buddhism
Crystal Palace
Rigveda
ideograms
5. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Four Noble Truths
Zhou Dynasty
Guomindang
Colombian Exchange
6. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Serf
Darius I
Ethiopia
Silk Road
7. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)
1776
Adolf Hitler
Hammurabi
1898
8. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.
Tennis Court Oath
Steel
1962
Holocaust
9. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.
Moksha
180 CE
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Guomindang
10. 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
Persia
Roman Republic
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Monophysites
11. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1871
Black Death
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Treaty of Versailles
12. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
1935
1939
Manumission
Panama Canal
13. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Cold War
Maya
Hernan Cortes
Four Noble Truths
14. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.
Diaspora
180 CE
Manor
Fidel Castro
15. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity
King Charles I
Apostle Paul
Ming
Treaty of Versailles
16. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Agora
NATO
Consul
Teotihuacan
17. 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
1885
1949
1533
18. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
1848
180 CE
Hanseatic League
1683
19. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian
5th century BCE
Fourteen Points
Peloponnesian War
1517
20. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.
1857
French Revolution
Treaty of Nanking
Qin
21. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Warring States Period
Yuan Empire
Nuremberg Trials
Adolf Hitler
22. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Laissez Faire
Khomeini
Sudetenland
Max Planck
23. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
Electricity
Israel
Charlemagne
Western Front
24. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.
Solomon's Temple
Bolshevik
Tamil Kingdoms
Qin
25. 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.
Franz Ferdinand
Empress Dowager Cixi
Oracle Bones
Balance of power
26. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Jenne-jeno
Nomad
Alexander the Great
27. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Isfahan
1863
Mestizo
Warsaw Pact
28. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
Indulgence
Pax Romana
Daoism
Byzantine Empire
29. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
Simon Bolivar
Socialists
Extraterritoriality
Mahabharata
30. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
1939
Ottomans
Afrikaners
Porfirio Díaz
31. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
1324 CE
Aswan High Dam
4th century CE
Mass deportation
32. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
220 CE
Legalism
Hieroglyphics
1347 CE
33. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Imperialism
Mita
Golden Horde
32 CE
34. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.
Berlin Conference
Constantinople
Sumer
1919
35. 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.
Holy Roman Empire
Gens de couleur
Khubilai Khan
Dharma
36. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Humanism
1853
Absolutism
Mansa Musa
37. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.
Shang Dynasty
Battle of Midway
Jesuits
Balfour Declaration
38. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Polis
Zoroaster
Holocaust
1517
39. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')
5th century BCE
Nation-State
Steam engine
Sikhism
40. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Meiji Restoration
Panama Canal
Junk
41. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
1815
1848
Chinampas
Mulatto
42. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
Yellow Turban
Republic
Byzantine Empire
Hiroshima
43. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.
Zoroastrianism
Congress of Vienna
James Watt
Cyrus II
44. 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.
Meiji Restoration
The Golden Triangle
Manchus
Fidel Castro
45. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Emilio Aguinaldo
Maya
Gamal Abdel Nasser
46. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety - fulfill vows - or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions - such as the Muslim journey to Mecca.
Cottage industry
Humanism
Pilgrimage
Shi Huangdi
47. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Bourgeoisie
Humanism
Jizya
Manchus
48. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Ulama
Cultural imperialism
1789
League of Nations
49. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.
John F. Kennedy
Battle of Midway
10000 BCE
Jose Morelos
50. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.
Crystal Palace
Realpolitik
Cambyses II
Jizya