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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Monophysites
Empress Wu
World Bank
Pericles
2. 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.
Medieval
Xia
Iconoclast
Parthians
3. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Chiefdom
Economic sanctions
Timur
1917
4. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
1517
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Realpolitik
Hatshepsut
5. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).
Ulama
Liu Bang
Confucius
Hoplite
6. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Protestant Reformation
Han
Great Circuit
Sub-Saharan Africa
7. 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.
Asante
World Bank
Colombian Exchange
Peloponnesian War
8. 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.
Dutch West India Company
Peloponnesian War
John Locke
Tanzimat
9. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
Hatshepsut
John F. Kennedy
1898
1948
10. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
Manor
Yellow River
Alexandria
Hadith
11. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Cossaks
Panama Canal
220 CE
Janissaries
12. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
1502
Jacobins
220 CE
1683
13. 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.
Reconquista
Indian National Congress
Jose Morelos
Extraterritoriality
14. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility
ideograms
ziggurat
Caste system
Ramesses II
15. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
1804
Aristotle
1066 CE
Delhi
16. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.
Girondins
Little Ice Age
St. Augustine
Legalism
17. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Mentuhotep I
220 CE
Minoan
Siddhartha Gautama
18. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.
Ghana
Creoles
Witch-hunt
Benjamin Franklin
19. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Nomad
1898
Solidarity
20. 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.
Hegemony
Steel
Syncretism
Zheng He
21. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Aswan High Dam
Aborigine
Keiretsu
Agora
22. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain
Satrapy
Herodotus
Treaty of Nanking
Umma
23. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Comfort girls
Sandinistas
Suez Canal
Witch-hunt
24. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Akbar
Thomas Edison
Darius I
Pericles
25. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
Tang Empire
Mandate of Heaven
Berlin Blockade
Mansa Musa
26. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
NATO
Sandinistas
Safavid Persia
Mentuhotep I
27. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
221 BCE
Laissez Faire
Qing Empire
Great Western Schism
28. 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
Plato
Celts
Ottomans
Juan Peron
29. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
632 CE
Jainism
Rigveda
Persian Wars
30. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Jesuits
Czar
Ibn Khaldun
Polis
31. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
Bengal
Guomindang
Hittites
1857
32. 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)
Mulatto
Bourgeoisie
Fransisco Pizarro
Babylon
33. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Bengal
Serf
Bartholomew Dias
Congress of Vienna
34. 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.
Shah Abbas I
Goths
Guild
hadith
35. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Medieval
1571
Hoplite
John Locke
36. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Porfirio Díaz
Proxy war
Nonaligned
Vedas
37. 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
Deism
Liu Bang
Albert Einstein
38. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Babylon
Tiananmen Square
Ibn Khaldun
Deism
39. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
ideograms
Indian Ocean
Keiretsu
Humanism
40. 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
Gunpowder
Hieroglyphics
Zhou dynasty
Samurai
41. 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
Sasanid Empire
Steam engine
Nation-State
42. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
League of Nations
Charles Darwin
African National Congress
1911
43. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Druids
Horse collar
Jacobins
Guilds
44. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Abbasid Caliphate
Saddam Hussein
Fransisco Pizarro
Ptolemy
45. 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.
1910
Atahualpa
Guild
Janapadas
46. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
333 CE
1959
Akhenaten
Fourteen Points
47. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)
1991
Junk
Isfahan
1324 CE
48. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Glorious Revolution
Gulag
Monotheism
Albert Einstein
49. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
Stalingrad
Byzantine Empire
Laissez faire
Pancho Villa
50. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.
1962
Balance of power
Pearl Harbor
Mesopotamia