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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1871
Charlemagne
Ottomans
Chiang Kai-Shek
2. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Humanism
Persepolis
Mita
3. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
1095 CE
World Bank
Zulu
Treaty Ports
4. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.
Rigveda
Mughal Empire
Shang Dynasty
Cold War
5. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.
1989
Muscovy
Sandinistas
Ming
6. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.
1815
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Monotheism
Sanskrit
7. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Caravel
Hoplite
Max Planck
Sun Yat-Sen
8. 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.
Maya
Zhou
Muscovy
Shinto
9. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Enconmienda
Memphis
Hellenistic
Diaspora
10. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
1948
Zen
1931
Mamluks
11. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)
Lama
Muhammad Ali
32 CE
assimilation
12. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Gunpowder
Armenia
Treaty of Versailles
Nonaligned
13. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Manchus
Extraterritoriality
Enlightenment
Constantinople
14. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.
Minoan
Siddhartha Gautama
Congress of Vienna
Akhenaten
15. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
1954
Roman Republic
Muhammad
Octavian
16. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Moksha
cuneiform
Samurai
Papacy
17. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
1935
Sumerians
220 CE
Cultural imperialism
18. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Copernicus
32 CE
Apostle Paul
Columbian Exchange
19. 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.
Maya
Sahel
Dutch West India Company
Steppes
20. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Empress Wu
Kepler
Balance of power
Sahel
21. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
Herodotus
Samurai
Monophysites
1917
22. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
assimilation
Otto von Bismarck
Puranas
Rigveda
23. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)
1898
NATO
New Imperialism
Constitutionalism
24. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Mulatto
Benito Mussolini
Indulgences
Kievan Russia
25. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
ideograms
Mughal Empire
1258 CE
Steppes
26. 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.
Catholic Reformation
Tenochtitlan
1533
Ptolemy
27. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.
Third World
Tribune
Aqueduct
527 CE
28. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
1271-1295 CE
Jose Morelos
Ghana
Carthage
29. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
4th century CE
Joint-stock company
Suez Canal
Weimar Republic
30. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Tokugawa Shogunate
League of Nations
Cyrus
Muhammad Ali
31. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.
Consul
Daoism
Yellow River
Diaspora
32. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
1989
Ferdinand Magellan
Gunpowder
Byzantine Empire
33. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
Guomindang
Philosophes
Hinduism
All-India Muslim League
34. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).
Mao Zedong
Shah Abbas I
1300 BCE
Byzantine Empire
35. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Plato
Sahel
Zoroastrianism
Caliphate
36. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Revolutions of 1848
Mestizo
Paterfamilias
Khomeini
37. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)
Mao Zedong
Malay
Druids
Muhammad
38. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
Civilian Conservation Corps
Zaibatsu
Swahili
George Washington
39. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
4th century CE
Silk Road
Bolshevik
Sub-Saharan Africa
40. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.
Bourgeoisie
Sun Yat-Sen
Code of Hammurabi
Cecil Rhodes
41. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.
Catholic Reformation
Chiefdom
Sigmund Freud
Eva Peron
42. 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.
Franz Ferdinand
Botany Bay
Charles Darwin
Modernization
43. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).
1517
Confucius
Ptolemy
Christopher Columbus
44. 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.
Sunnis
Persepolis
Puritans
Western Front
45. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Minoan
Fascist Party
Goths
Atahualpa
46. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil
Zoroastrianism
Akhenaten
Democracy
cuneiform
47. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
Napoleonic Wars
1911
McCarthyism
Acropolis
48. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
Rigveda
Indian Civil Service
Thebes
Sub-Saharan Africa
49. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
1871
Jizya
Siddhartha Gautama
1917
50. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Vasco da Gama
1054 CE
Indentured servitude
Philosophes