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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520
Delhi Sultanate
Capitalism
Sasanid Empire
Fidel Castro
2. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Sahel
Trireme
Yuan Empire
Modernization
3. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
Rama
Gupta Empire
1910
Constitutionalism
4. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1861
Bourgeoisie
Mita
Cultural imperialism
5. 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
Cortes
Ramesses II
Labor union
6. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Fascism
Nonaligned
Hoplite
32 CE
7. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Great Zimbabwe
John Locke
Railroads
Opium Wars
8. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Samurai
Samsara
Benito Mussolini
Code of Hammurabi
9. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Enclosure Movement
Albert Einstein
Kepler
Catholic Reformation
10. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Mughal Empire
Fascism
Empress Dowager Cixi
Mandate of Heaven
11. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Guild
Winston Churchill
Columbian Exchange
Aryans
12. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Hydrogen bomb
Scramble for Africa
Marco Polo
Druids
13. 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.)
Champa Rice
Joint-stock company
Great Zimbabwe
King Leopold II King of Belgium
14. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
333 CE
Balance of Power
Kepler
Humanism
15. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Sandinistas
Columbian Exchange
Laissez Faire
League of Nations
16. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
1325 CE
1683
Israel
Hernan Cortes
17. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Pilgrims
Monsoon
Code of Hammurabi
Malay
18. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Industrial Revolution
Hammurabi
Charles de Gaulle
Gothic Cathedrals
19. 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.
Hadith
Colombian Exchange
Qing Empire
Cottage industry
20. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Safavid Empire
Stalingrad
1991
Chiefdom
21. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Sikhs
Armenia
Macartney Mission
Deism
22. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Jesus
The Golden Triangle
Pax Romana
Delhi
23. 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)
Sepoy
Guild
Modernization
Babylon
24. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
Albert Einstein
Cuban Missile Crisis
Indian Civil Service
1815
25. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Joseph Stalin
Cyrus II
Agora
527 CE
26. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.
Devshirme
Silk Road
Sepoy
Qing Empire
27. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
Guild
Quran
Nuclear nonproliferation
James Watt
28. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.
Asante
Panama Canal
Byzantine Empire
Tang Revival
29. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
John Locke
Printing press
Patricians
Mandate System
30. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Monsoon
Druids
Karl Marx
Richard Arkwright
31. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Delhi Sulatanate
John Locke
Third World
Monotheism
32. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
Catholic Reformation
Hinduism
1914-1918
United Nations
33. 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
1848
Hinduism
Gujarat
34. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.
1911
Islam
Balance of power
Stone Age
35. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Divination
Polis
Macedonia
1871
36. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
Conquistadors
1804
Zimmerman telegram
Zionism
37. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Colombian Exchange
Four Noble Truths
Balfour Declaration
NATO
38. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very
Khipu
Mesopotamia
Collectivization
Akhenaten
39. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept
Sumerians
Sepoy Mutiny
Cossaks
Khomeini
40. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Umma
Napoleon Bonaparte
Enconmienda
Indian Ocean
41. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
All-India Muslim League
1789
Abbasid Dynasty
Ibn Battuta
42. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Guilds
Martin Luther
Paleolithic
Charles de Gaulle
43. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Mercantilism
Three-field system
Manor
Jenne-Jeno
44. 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
Colombian Exchange
1885
Balance of Power
Treaty of Nanking
45. Date: independence & partition of India
Yin and yang
1947
Khubilai Khan
Richard Arkwright
46. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Colombian Exchange
deforestation
Isfahan
1789
47. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
Christopher Columbus
1911
Delhi
Manchuria
48. The central text of Daoism.
Vladimir Lenin
Bolsheviks
Tao-te Ching
1989
49. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Leonardo da Vinci
Sigmund Freud
Janapadas
Sasanid Empire
50. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
1917
Capitalism
Buddha
Economic sanctions