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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Terrorism
Rigveda
Nomad
Akbar
2. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.
Kievan Russia
vassal
Teotihuacan
Sepoy
3. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Balfour Declaration
Mohandas Gandhi
Jamestown
Theodosius
4. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
Plato
Timur
Tribune
Humanism
5. Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the in these cities - foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.
Treaty Ports
Berlin Conference
Jesuits
Italian Renaissance
6. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Caravel
Qing Empire
1810s
Patricians
7. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.
Carthage
Hellenistic
Mahayana Buddhism
32 CE
8. 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.
Enlightenment
Isfahan
732 CE
Humanists
9. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Qing Empire
Fidel Castro
Socialists
Bartolome de Las Casas
10. 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
Philip II
Monotheism
Mandate of Heaven
Ming
11. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Glorious Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Medina
Cultural imperialism
12. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Capitalism
5th century BCE
Paterfamilias
Sasanid Empire
13. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
Totalitarianism
Pax Mongolica
John Locke
Capitalism
14. 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.
Gupta Empire
Ethiopia
1533
Gunpowder
15. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Mita
Janissary
Lusitania
Scientific Revolution
16. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Mulatto
4th century CE
Theravada Buddhism
Weimar Republic
17. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Mulatto
Liu Bang
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
18. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
Marie Curie
French Revolution
Printing press
assimilation
19. 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
Third World
Buddhism
Zulu
Jamestown
20. 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.
All-India Muslim League
6th century BCE
Empress Wu
Cossaks
21. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Lama
Zoroaster
Mestizo
22. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Daoism
Swahili
1898
Bourgeoisie
23. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens
Umayyad Caliphate
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Capitalism
Persian Wars
24. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Alexander the Great
Investiture
Perestroika
Zoroastrianism
25. 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.
Janissaries
Theravada Buddhism
Romanization
Puritans
26. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
1871
732 CE
Druids
Tang Empire
27. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
Czar
1948
Three-field system
Proxy wars
28. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
League of Nations
Umma
Diaspora
Adolf Hitler
29. Political units in India in the years 700-600 BC. They are the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India. They are the earliest kingdoms set up by the Indo-Aryans migrants to India.
Battle of Midway
Janapadas
Monasticism
Mongol Empire
30. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.
Vedas
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Thebes
Maya
31. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
1931
Julius Caesar
Jamestown
Mita
32. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hanseatic League
Vedas
Abbasid Dynasty
Salvador Allende
33. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Atlantic System
Babylon
1689
34. 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
1453 CE
Agricultural Revolution
Separate Spheres
Medina
35. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Iroquois Confederacy
Adolf Hitler
Cultural imperialism
Satrapy
36. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
Cottage industry
Armenia
Mahayana Buddhism
Triumvirate
37. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Tenochtitlan
Victorian Age
Uigurs
Akhenaten
38. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
Shamanism
Manchuria
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Augustus
39. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Horse collar
Polis
Hernan Cortes
Joseph Stalin
40. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
George Washington
Zhou dynasty
Gold Coast
1947
41. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Persia
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
NATO
Pancho Villa
42. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Nehru
Gentry
Persepolis
Hoplite
43. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Nubians
Monophysites
Mein Kampf
Maya
44. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.
vassal
Salvador Allende
1588
Samurai
45. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Alexander the Great
Kepler
Mycenae
liberalism
46. A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction - machinery - and railroad equipment.
Hernan Cortes
Hinduism
Hoplite
Steel
47. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Dalai Lama
Mechanization
Mentuhotep I
Peloponnesian War
48. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
Balance of Power
1962
Roman Republic
Sumer
49. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Iconoclast
Hellenistic
1521
Memphis
50. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.
Sandinistas
Inca
Gens de couleur
Capitalism