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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Byzantine Empire
Janissaries
Mecca
Driver
2. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Democracy
1521
Mandate of Heaven
32 CE
3. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Solon
Gens de couleur
Fascist Party
Constantinople
4. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Franz Ferdinand
1517
Laissez faire
Solon
5. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
1899
Empress Wu
Keiretsu
6. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Zoroastrianism
National Assembly
Swahili
Ghana
7. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
1959
Crusades
Italian Renaissance
Gunpowder
8. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
Mandate of Heaven
League of Nations
Tanakh
Albert Einstein
9. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Apostle Paul
Acropolis
Zulu
10. 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.)
Crystal Palace
Pax Romana
Champa Rice
Steel
11. 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.
Ulama
Zimmerman telegram
Collectivization
1991
12. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Bantu
Constitutional Convention
Harappa
Puritans
13. 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.
Faisal
Catholic Reformation
Ramesses II
Qin
14. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
Benjamin Franklin
Ulama
Shinto
Olmec
15. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.
Apostle Paul
Warring States Period
Franz Ferdinand
Adolf Hitler
16. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Confucianism
Montezuma II
Pancho Villa
Sun Yat-sen
17. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.
Aqueduct
Alexander the Great
Aristotle
Steel
18. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Jamestown
Chinampas
Macedonia
Janissary
19. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
Papyrus
Roman Republic
Steel
Cyrus II
20. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
333 CE
Winston Churchill
Vedas
Nubians
21. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
4th century CE
Asoka
Song Dynasty
Marie Curie
22. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
Solidarity
Martin Luther
1967
Mandate System
23. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.
Constantine
1941
Suleiman the Magnificent
Caste system
24. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Aborigine
League of Nations
Little Ice Age
Isfahan
25. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Nation-State
Timur
Mansa Musa
Neocolonialism
26. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.
Diaspora
Epic of Gilgamesh
1804
Zhou dynasty
27. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.
Caravel
Creoles
Silk Road
Colonialism
28. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
1863
Mali
1947
Albert Einstein
29. 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.
Roman Principate
Simon Bolivar
Jose Morelos
Charles Darwin
30. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Little Ice Age
Holocaust
Habsburgs
Devshirme
31. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
Hydrogen bomb
Adolf Hitler
Theravada Buddhism
Congress of Vienna
32. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
Empress Wu
Jesus
hadith
1066 CE
33. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
1947
Colonialism
1347 CE
Malay
34. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.
Charles de Gaulle
Fresco
Emilio Aguinaldo
Bolsheviks
35. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
1910
Hiroshima
Bartolomeu Dias
Inca
36. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
French Revolution
Timur
1607
Hieroglyphics
37. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th
Muscovy
180 CE
Zapata
Kepler
38. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Zulu
Collectivization
Printing press
39. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Sahel
Gujarat
Diaspora
Maya
40. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Vedas
Civilian Conservation Corps
Jose Morelos
1899
41. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.
Teotihuacan
Tang Revival
Five Year Plans
Treaty of Versailles
42. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.
Totalitarianism
Crusades
Yuan Empire
World Bank
43. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
Zapata
Khomeini
1898
Mass production
44. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
10000 BCE
Hammurabi
Mansa Musa
1095 CE
45. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Yuan Empire
Solon
Gulag
1521
46. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Ziggurat
Hammurabi
Persian Wars
Asoka
47. 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.
Concordat
City state
Balance of power
Varna
48. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
Guild
1967
Leonardo da Vinci
Sokoto Caliphate
49. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
1948
Theravada Buddhism
Roman Republic
1324 CE
50. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
Umma
Caste system
Quran
Zoroastrianism