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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
1853
Caravel
Twelve Tables
Gujarat
2. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
Aryans
Napoleonic Wars
Ferdinand Magellan
1804
3. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
Opium Wars
Vladimir Lenin
Glorious Revolution
Aztecs
4. The central text of Daoism.
Tao-te Ching
Tito
Monotheism
Fascist Party
5. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Theravada Buddhism
Iconoclast
Zen
Gupta Empire
6. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Capitalism
ideograms
Henry the Navigator
Shang
7. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog
Muslim
Nongovernmental Organizations
Jainism
Concordat
8. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI
Tennis Court Oath
cuneiform
1931
Safavid Empire
9. 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.
Olmec
Gamal Abdel Nasser
vassal
Monophysites
10. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.
Malay
Mesopotamia
Suleiman the Magnificent
Varna
11. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Medieval
Zheng He
Caesar Augustus
1989
12. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
Theravada Buddhism
1967
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Maximillien Robespierre
13. 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.
Teotihuacan
Mahayana Buddhism
Dirty War
Tang Revival
14. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
Hellenistic Age
1683
1517
Aqueduct
15. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Dalai Lama
Hydrogen bomb
deforestation
Acropolis
16. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Caste system
Maya
Centuries
Bantu
17. (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).
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Nubians
Agora
Cotton
18. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
OPEC
European Community
1948
Guild
19. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
1919
Little Ice Age
Zoroastrianism
1989
20. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age
Iron curtain
Adolf Hitler
Stone Age
Hacienda
21. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Humanists
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Bread and Circuses
Treaty of Nanking
22. 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.
Indulgence
1911
Nomad
Zoroastrianism
23. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach
Hieroglyphics
Cultural Revolution
Tang Revival
The Golden Triangle
24. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)
1949
10000 BCE
Atlantic System
Cyrus
25. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
Leonardo da Vinci
Nirvana
Estates General
Buddhism
26. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Hammurabi
Atlantic System
Ottomans
ideograms
27. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.
Treaty of Versailles
Pericles
Girondins
Bantu
28. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.
Socrates
Hinduism
Eva Peron
Sokoto Caliphate
29. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Neo-Assyrians
Plebeians
1911
Ibn Battuta
30. 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.
1917
Zhou Dynasty
Zen
Perestroika
31. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Scientific Revolution
1949
Xia
Colombian Exchange
32. 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
Umma
Humanism
Bantu
Muscovy
33. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
Tito
4th century CE
Mass deportation
1683
34. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.
New Imperialism
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1776
Iron curtain
35. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.
Nikita Khrushchev
Caste system
Zhou
Karma
36. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Laissez Faire
Constantine
1521
Monasticism
37. 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.
Battle of Midway
Vedas
Ramesses II
1324 CE
38. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Scholasticism
All-India Muslim League
Colonization
Josiah Wedgwood
39. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
Saddam Hussein
1271-1295 CE
Keiretsu
Third World
40. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
pictograms
vassal
1453 CE
Young Turks
41. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
1861
Pericles
Janissary
1683
42. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
Botany Bay
Woodrow Wilson
assimilation
Scientific Revolution
43. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Salvador Allende
Junk
Gujarat
Zionism
44. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Tang Empire
Ayatollah Khomeini
1991
Alexander the Great
45. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.
Maya
Socrates
Manumission
Aswan High Dam
46. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Papyrus
Otto von Bismarck
Theodosius
Benito Mussolini
47. A complex of palaces - reception halls - and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homelan
Gentry
Stone Age
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Persepolis
48. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
180 CE
Hatshepsut
Persia
Fertile Crescent
49. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.
Code of Hammurabi
Armenia
Suez Canal
Punic Wars
50. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Labor union
Driver
Khmer Empire
Maximillien Robespierre