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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
Alexandria
Delian League
Zoroastrianism
1911
2. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Ferdinand Magellan
Fertile Crescent
Cultural imperialism
Royal African Company
3. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
1533
Habsburgs
Leonid Brezhnev
Max Planck
4. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Meiji Restoration
Balance of power
Agricultural Revolution
Aborigine
5. 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.
1618
Eva Peron
1914-1918
Mamluks
6. 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
Mecca
Vladimir Lenin
Reconquista
7. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Charlemagne
Huguenot
Buddha
Sepoy
8. 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.
Paleolithic
Fascist Party
Zoroaster
Catholic Reformation
9. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
Reconquista
180 CE
Leonardo da Vinci
Epic of Gilgamesh
10. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent
Juan Peron
Mass deportation
Divine Right of Kings
Inca
11. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
Bourgeoisie
pictograms
New Imperialism
Sasanid Empire
12. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Mentuhotep I
Shogun
Nikita Khrushchev
Steppes
13. 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.
Cyrus
Jesus
Yellow Turban
ethnic cleansing
14. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
Prince Henry The Navigator
Ma'at
Vladimir Lenin
Five Year Plans
15. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.
Abolition
King Charles I
Janapadas
Scientific Revolution
16. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.
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17. 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
Mestizo
Abbasid Dynasty
Khubilai Khan
1959
18. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.
Repartimiento
Gold Coast
Yin and yang
Taiping Rebellion
19. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Charles de Gaulle
Warsaw Pact
Yin and yang
Swahili
20. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.
Czar
Charlemagne
Afrikaners
Hammurabi
21. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Fourteen Points
Darius I
323 BCE
Ethiopia
22. 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.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Han
Mandate System
Third World
23. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Guomindang
Totalitarianism
Reconquista
Rama
24. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Balance of power
Philosophes
6th century BCE
Henry the Navigator
25. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Ibn Khaldun
Stalingrad
Porfirio Díaz
Sunnis
26. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.
Holocaust
Guilds
Ptolemy
Aswan High Dam
27. Date: Stock Market Crash
Christopher Columbus
1929
Collectivization
Hydrogen bomb
28. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.
Abolition
Abbasid Dynasty
1683
Pericles
29. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Bengal
Uigurs
Artha-sastra
Karl Marx
30. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Agora
Code of Hammurabi
1502
Leonardo da Vinci
31. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Babylonian Empire
Ibn Khaldun
1347 CE
Hernan Cortes
32. 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
Salvador Allende
Apostle Paul
Humanists
Zionism
33. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.
European Community
Francisco Franco
Joint-stock company
Manor
34. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
1517
Safavid Empire
Movable type
Great Western Schism
35. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Caliphate
Fidel Castro
1453 CE
Puritans
36. 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.
Tributary system
Iconoclast
Enclosure Movement
Apostle Paul
37. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.
Paterfamilias
Janissaries
221 BCE
Papacy
38. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.
Zoroastrianism
Suleiman the Magnificent
Mercantilism
Proxy war
39. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.
Abolition
Tamil Kingdoms
Cuban Missile Crisis
Tenochtitlan
40. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Colonization
1962
Vedas
Sikhism
41. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Holy Roman Empire
Hoplite
Mohenjo-Daro
Leonardo da Vinci
42. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
League of Nations
Darius I
1853
Cortes
43. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Constantine
Enlightenment
Ptolemy
Macedonia
44. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe
Medieval
Charles Darwin
Trireme
liberalism
45. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Horse collar
Byzantine Empire
Hellenistic
Augustus
46. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.
Safavid Persia
Enlightenment
Jose Morelos
King Leopold II King of Belgium
47. The central text of Daoism.
Tao-te Ching
Joseph Stalin
Khipu
Abbasid Dynasty
48. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Gulag
Mahabharata
Bhagavad-Gita
Cultural Revolution
49. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
Silk Road
Tributary system
Nikita Khrushchev
Treaty of Nanking
50. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
Silk Road
Keiretsu
Chiefdom
Labor union