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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Gulag
1689
Buddha
Gamal Abdel Nasser
2. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Francisco Franco
Nuclear nonproliferation
Tribune
Balance of power
3. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
Auschwitz
Cambyses II
Gunpowder
Umma
4. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Kievan Russia
Manumission
Delhi Sultanate
1967
5. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.
220 CE
Nirvana
Umma
Catholic Reformation
6. General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang - he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.
Samurai
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mycenae
Capitalism
7. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Xia
Czar
urbanization
1898
8. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
Colombian Exchange
League of Nations
Puritans
Plebeians
9. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
Gunpowder
5th century BCE
1258 CE
Druids
10. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Hittites
Sudetenland
Gentry
1871
11. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Sumerians
Manchus
Solon
Gentry
12. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
1935
Pilgrims
Mecca
Caste system
13. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Empress Dowager Cixi
1492
Talmud
Teotihuacan
14. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.
Zhou
New Economic Policy
Benito Mussolini
Socrates
15. 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
Philosophes
Roman Principate
Abbasid Dynasty
Ziggurat
16. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Vladimir Lenin
Devshirme
Beijing
Aryans
17. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Christopher Columbus
Glorious Revolution
Safavid Empire
Fascist Party
18. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)
Polis
Fascist Party
1347 CE
Nasir al-Din Tusi
19. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Francisco Franco
Lusitania
221 BCE
Franz Ferdinand
20. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
1947
1948
Holocaust
Umma
21. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Buddhism
Shinto
Armenia
Glorious Revolution
22. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
urbanization
Francisco Franco
Totalitarianism
National Assembly
23. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Jizya
Mao Zedong
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dutch West India Company
24. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Pericles
Hieroglyphics
Apostle Paul
Hegemony
25. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).
Czar
Opium Wars
Minoan
Sikhism
26. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Neocolonialism
Sub-Saharan Africa
476 CE
Constantinople
27. 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.
Hernan Cortes
Darius I
Constantine
Mycenae
28. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon
Napoleonic Wars
Botany Bay
League of Nations
Mecca
29. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
Humanists
Bartholomew Dias
1956
Polis
30. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Jenne-Jeno
Delian League
Ramesses II
Parthians
31. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
1054 CE
Tiananmen Square
King Leopold II King of Belgium
1885
32. '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
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Theravada Buddhism
Janapadas
Epic of Gilgamesh
33. 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
Apostle Paul
Repartimiento
Conquistadors
Mulatto
34. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Akhenaten
Josiah Wedgwood
Holocaust
Monsoon
35. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Terrorism
Taiping Rebellion
1618
Lama
36. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
World Bank
Gupta Empire
1941
Akbar
37. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
1898
League of Nations
Vedas
World Bank
38. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Stalingrad
Dharma
Mesopotamia
Bartholomew Dias
39. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
95 Theses
Safavid Persia
Humanism
1071 CE
40. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roman Republic
Samurai
Aryans
41. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)
Mohenjo-Daro
Nation-State
1588
Crystal Palace
42. 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.
Five Year Plans
cuneiform
Memphis
Monasticism
43. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
Yellow Turban
Ziggurat
Dirty War
Yellow River
44. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
Sandinista
United Nations
Patricians
Dirty War
45. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
Shinto
Deng Xiaoping
Fascism
1066 CE
46. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.
632 CE
Absolutism
Suez Canal
333 CE
47. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Zimmerman telegram
Papyrus
Colonization
Gothic Cathedrals
48. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
Legalism
1502
pictograms
Cixi
49. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Kievan Russia
Bourgeoisie
Abbasid Dynasty
Nasir al-Din Tusi
50. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
Thomas Malthus
Manchus
Chavin
1347 CE