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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
Guild
Driver
1917
Solidarity
2. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Divination
Bolsheviks
1863
Inca
3. 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
McCarthyism
Panama Canal
National Assembly
Huguenot
4. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Asante
Gulag
Ayatollah Khomeini
Enlightenment
5. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
1521
ethnic cleansing
Pericles
Mughal Empire
6. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
Horse collar
Khmer Empire
Mikhail Gorbachev
Monophysites
7. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Aztecs
1271-1295 CE
Mandate of Heaven
Witch-hunt
8. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Confucius
Safavid Persia
Ayatollah Khomeini
Maori
9. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S
Porfirio Díaz
Capitalism
1815
legalism
10. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Solidarity
Asoka
Grand Canal
pictograms
11. 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
Stalingrad
United Nations
Holy Roman Empire
Darius I
12. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
Sunnis
1914-1918
Bartholomew Dias
Laissez Faire
13. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu
Tennis Court Oath
1994
Franz Ferdinand
Shang
14. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Inca
Triumvirate
loess
Hellenistic
15. The idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs. The classic exposition of laissez-faire principles is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
Sub-Saharan Africa
Laissez faire
Bartolome de Las Casas
Victorian Age
16. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Theodosius
Alexander the Great
1987
Parthians
17. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
Holocaust
Druids
Monsoon
1488
18. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
Tanzimat
Junk
Emilano Zapata
Goths
19. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Tang Empire
Yurt
Stock exchange
Ayatollah Khomeini
20. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
Humanists
pictograms
Confucius
Sasanid Empire
21. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain
Treaty of Nanking
Atlantic System
1948
333 CE
22. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
2001
Caesar Augustus
1931
Roman Republic
23. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
Samsara
1911
Augustus
Extraterritoriality
24. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Enlightenment
Roman Senate
Proxy war
Charles de Gaulle
25. 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
Diaspora
Mycenae
Buddhism
Byzantine Empire
26. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
1347 CE
Franz Ferdinand
Roman Republic
Gentry
27. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
1492
1948
1939
Junk
28. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Cultural Revolution
Ramesses II
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Encomienda
29. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Jesuits
Labor union
Treaty of Versailles
Guild
30. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Neocolonialism
House of Burgesses
Jenne-jeno
Tribute system
31. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women - especially of the middle class - should have different roles in society: women as wives - mothers - and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics
Aryans
Huguenot
Pancho Villa
Separate Spheres
32. 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.
Maori
World Bank
Nikita Khrushchev
The Mahdi
33. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
1956
Alexandria
St. Augustine
Constantine
34. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
Guomindang
Timur
deforestation
Qin
35. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
Safavid Empire
Bantu
1871
1861
36. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Reconquista
Suez Canal
Junk
Ming
37. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
Porfirio Díaz
Empiricism
Ptolemy
1910
38. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.
Gunpowder
Mao Zedong
Plebeians
Umayyad Caliphate
39. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Humanism
Economic sanctions
Hernan Cortes
Pericles
40. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
Deng Xiaoping
1962
Yellow River
Delhi Sulatanate
41. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Manchus
Cold War
Colombian Exchange
Mercantilism
42. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Carthage
221 BCE
Olmec
Capitalism
43. 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)
Zoroastrianism
urbanization
Auschwitz
Comfort girls
44. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
Hadith
180 CE
Atahualpa
Assimilation
45. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
ethnic cleansing
Tao-te Ching
46. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu
Shi Huangdi
Byzantine Empire
Zaibatsu
Hoplite
47. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.
Benito Mussolini
Holocaust
Roman Principate
Ramesses II
48. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
1905
Samurai
Berlin Blockade
Tributary system
49. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Monasticism
Cold War
1607
urbanization
50. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity
Ming
Tributary system
Great Circuit
Witchcraft