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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Juan Peron
Plato
deforestation
Mecca
2. 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.
Quran
1533
Tang Revival
Berlin Conference
3. Date: Stock Market Crash
Monasticism
Colonization
Talmud
1929
4. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
Tokugawa Shogunate
6th century BCE
Hinduism
Bread and Circuses
5. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
221 BCE
Nehru
Sandinista
Gamal Abdel Nasser
6. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Maya
Empiricism
Mughal Empire
Sokoto Caliphate
7. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)
Mita
Uigurs
Conquistadors
1433 CE
8. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented
Fascism
Gupta Empire
Khipu
Hieroglyphics
9. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
Bantu
Warring States Period
Olmec
Delhi Sultanate
10. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
Goths
Sasanid Empire
Guild
Roman Principate
11. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
Ming
1989
NATO
1789
12. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Indian Ocean
Talmud
Lama
Yin and yang
13. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
Christopher Columbus
1967
Vasco da Gama
Gentry
14. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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15. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Mandate of Heaven
Botany Bay
Laissez Faire
League of Nations
16. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics
Polis
Nuclear nonproliferation
Separate Spheres
Centuries
17. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Asante
Absolutism
Mercantilism
Assimilation
18. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.
Dalai Lama
Korean War
Nubians
Mandate of Heaven
19. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
House of Burgesses
assimilation
Artha-sastra
1956
20. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Electricity
Laissez faire
Champa Rice
Teotihuacan
21. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Fertile Crescent
Teotihuacan
Separate Spheres
Jainism
22. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
Crusades
1885
Daoism
Guild
23. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.
Serf
Italian Renaissance
Marie Curie
Imperialism
24. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.
Capitalism
Roman Senate
Benito Mussolini
10000 BCE
25. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Martin Luther
Zhou
Abbasid Caliphate
Empiricism
26. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Gold Coast
Guild
James Watt
urbanization
27. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Shinto
Hadith
Chinampas
Otto von Bismarck
28. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
loess
Huguenot
Nomad
Darius I
29. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Maya
French Revolution
Isfahan
Afrikaners
30. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
League of Nations
The Golden Triangle
Tanzimat
Stone Age
31. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
1910
Indulgences
Economic sanctions
Joesph Stalin
32. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Agricultural Revolution
Babylon
Lusitania
33. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.
Western Front
1804
Socialists
Hacienda
34. 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.
Indentured servitude
Asian Tigers
Josiah Wedgwood
Sasanid Empire
35. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Albert Einstein
Ayatollah Khomeini
Aristotle
Octavian
36. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
Consul
Paleolithic
Leonid Brezhnev
Jainism
37. 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
Lusitania
Darius I
1989
Caliphate
38. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe
liberalism
James Watt
1271-1295 CE
Bread and Circuses
39. 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)
Great Western Schism
cuneiform
Humanism
Chiefdom
40. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Botany Bay
Pericles
1533
Enlightenment
41. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Gujarat
1857
Colonization
Ethiopia
42. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder
Philip II
Fascist Party
Korean War
Sandinistas
43. An adherent of the Islamic religion.
Keiretsu
Nation-State
WTO
Muslim
44. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name
Mauryan Empire
Cyrus II
Deism
Emilio Aguinaldo
45. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.
Neolithic
New Imperialism
Repartimiento
Aqueduct
46. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
City state
Asian Tigers
Devshirme
New Economic Policy
47. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Legalism
Mestizo
1521
Nubians
48. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Kievan Russia
Solidarity
Rigveda
Warring States Period
49. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).
Catholic Reformation
Nongovernmental Organizations
Juan Peron
1967
50. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.
Zoroaster
Hieroglyphics
Punic Wars
Umma