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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Stalingrad
Isfahan
WTO
Indentured servitude
2. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
1931
Fourteen Points
Sandinista
Vladimir Lenin
3. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Colonialism
Yellow Turban
Ghana
Nazca
4. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
1911
Mercantilism
Harappa
legalism
5. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Caravel
Treaty Ports
Mali
Hadith
6. 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.
1502
Constantine
Patricians
Qing Empire
7. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Comfort girls
1521
Qing Empire
Patricians
8. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
Jesus
Abbasid Dynasty
1488
Bread and Circuses
9. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')
Perestroika
5th century BCE
Cossaks
NATO
10. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.
Ptolemy
1271-1295 CE
Winston Churchill
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
11. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
deforestation
1683
Hieroglyphics
Civilian Conservation Corps
12. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Persepolis
Ming
Shah Abbas I
Vedas
13. A French Protestant
Byzantine Empire
Mahabharata
1271-1295 CE
Huguenot
14. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
Sikhs
1954
1571
Sandinistas
15. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Papyrus
Darius I
Qin
Code of Hammurabi
16. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.
Olmec
George Washington
Tiananmen Square
1863
17. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
Jesus
The Mahdi
Talmud
5th century BCE
18. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh
Silk Road
Karma
1956
Buddhism
19. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Witch-hunt
Papacy
Diaspora
20. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Pancho Villa
Apostle Paul
Mass deportation
Olmec
21. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Stoicism
Capitalism
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Simon Bolivar
22. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI
Tennis Court Oath
1325 CE
Democracy
Tang Revival
23. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.
Minoan
Wheel of Life
Huns
Manchuria
24. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
1776
Hundred Years War
Treaty Ports
Middle Passage
25. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Umma
Habsburg
Girondins
26. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
Richard Arkwright
1804
Semitic
Sahel
27. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
1618
Taiping Rebellion
Concordat
Gentry
28. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Stone Age
Constantine
1300 BCE
Zimmerman telegram
29. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
ethnic cleansing
1945
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Enconmienda
30. 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
Great Zimbabwe
Conquistadors
Janissaries
31. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Berlin Conference
Zapata
Yuan Empire
Semitic
32. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Labor union
Adolf Hitler
Witch-hunt
Suleiman the Magnificent
33. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Little Ice Age
Plebeians
3000s BCE
Ottomans
34. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America
Holy Roman Empire
Durbar
The Golden Triangle
African National Congress
35. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.
Telegraph
Berlin Blockade
Cossaks
Collectivization
36. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Stock exchange
Afrikaners
Diocletian
Guilds
37. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)
Byzantine Empire
Conquistadors
Neo-Assyrians
Republic
38. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Submarine telegraph cables
1863
ideograms
Sumerians
39. The three wars waged by Rome against Carthage - 264-241 - 218-201 - and 149-146 b.c. - resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome.
Punic Wars
Romanization
Mentuhotep I
Janapadas
40. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
1492
Hittites
Zhou
1810s
41. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Enclosure Movement
Qing Empire
Tamil Kingdoms
Asante
42. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
4th century CE
Empress Dowager Cixi
Hammurabi
Vasco da Gama
43. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
Gold Coast
ideograms
Hinduism
333 CE
44. 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.
Code of Hammurabi
1607
Shinto
Asante
45. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Tang Empire
Habsburg
Hiroshima
Nikita Khrushchev
46. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Zoroastrianism
Ghana
1683
Minoans
47. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
1994
Mestizo
Romanization
Yellow River
48. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.
Suleiman the Magnificent
All-India Muslim League
Tribute system
Devshirme
49. 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
Battle of Midway
OPEC
Leonardo da Vinci
50. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
1853
Roman Principate
Charlemagne
Tenochtitlan