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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.
Hebrew Bible
Benito Mussolini
Mecca
Great Zimbabwe
2. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Asian Tigers
Colombian Exchange
Joesph Stalin
Divination
3. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
deforestation
1533
Ramesses II
Zapata
4. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
Steppes
Economic sanctions
Jacobins
Hatshepsut
5. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
Hacienda
1919
Vladimir Lenin
Charlemagne
6. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Mestizo
Vladimir Lenin
Enlightenment
Yongle
7. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities
Delian League
Cold War
Mali
Babylon
8. 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
Daoism
Labor union
National Assembly
Shogun
9. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
1899
Balance of Power
Laissez faire
Helsinki Accords
10. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Czar
Siberia
NATO
Acropolis
11. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Driver
1987
Delian League
Chinampas
12. 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
Mahabharata
Safavid Empire
Creoles
13. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
Prince Henry The Navigator
1054 CE
Hacienda
180 CE
14. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.
Kepler
Yurt
Zoroastrianism
Shogun
15. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Scientific Revolution
Triumvirate
Realpolitik
Industrial Revolution
16. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).
Muhammad
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Dutch West India Company
Vedas
17. 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.
Five Year Plans
Minoan
Augustus
Harappa
18. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
pictograms
Liu Bang
Franklin D. Roosevelt
221 BCE
19. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
1979
Sikhs
Bengal
Khmer Empire
20. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Daoism
Xia
Huguenot
Franklin D. Roosevelt
21. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.
Samurai
Tenochtitlan
Western Front
Battle of Midway
22. 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
Asian Tigers
Leonardo da Vinci
Khipu
Khubilai Khan
23. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
1948
Umma
Reconquista
Teotihuacan
24. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Mongols
Comfort girls
Aswan High Dam
League of Nations
25. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
Jenne-jeno
Khipu
Safavid Empire
Olmec
26. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Cortes
Carthage
King Charles I
1071 CE
27. Originally - a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently - the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.
All-India Muslim League
Ulama
Manchuria
Dalai Lama
28. Date: end of WWII
Solon
1945
Indulgence
Enclosure Movement
29. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.
Hebrew Bible
cuneiform
Ferdinand Magellan
Collectivization
30. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Aryans
1979
Tribune
Botany Bay
31. 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
Francisco Franco
ziggurat
Neolithic
32. 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.
180 CE
Muhammad
Zoroaster
Darius I
33. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses
Darius I
Thomas Malthus
Augustus
Pilgrimage
34. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.
Jesus
Xia
Mentuhotep I
Guomindang
35. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Maya
1949
Juan Peron
Moksha
36. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
Divine Right of Kings
Catholic Reformation
Cortes
Stoicism
37. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Tang Revival
Comfort girls
Imperialism
1054 CE
38. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
Hieroglyphics
Quran
1987
Lusitania
39. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Cixi
Mantra
Mandate of Heaven
Postmodernism
40. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
1521
Twelve Tables
Steel
Franklin D. Roosevelt
41. 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.)
Stoicism
1517
Champa Rice
assimilation
42. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
Han
Democracy
Nehru
Mass production
43. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Polis
Ibn Battuta
Peloponnesian War
Tanakh
44. 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.
Centuries
Comfort girls
Totalitarianism
Holy Roman Empire
45. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969
Charles de Gaulle
Great Circuit
1600
Constantinople
46. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Medieval
Sanskrit
New Economic Policy
Deism
47. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.
National Assembly
Tributary system
Korean War
Sumer
48. 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.
1054 CE
Ma'at
World Bank
Nomad
49. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Silk Road
Hittites
Mamluks
Zapata
50. 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.
Collectivization
Nehru
Benito Mussolini
Trireme