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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Sokoto Caliphate
Sikhs
Lusitania
ethnic cleansing
2. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Timur
Balance of power
Woodrow Wilson
Apostle Paul
3. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Joseph Stalin
Beijing
Atahualpa
Dirty War
4. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
Thomas Malthus
Hammurabi
1861
Telegraph
5. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)
Aqueduct
Punic Wars
Jenne-jeno
1325 CE
6. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Solomon's Temple
Iron curtain
Asian Tigers
Solon
7. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Constitutionalism
Tang Revival
Marie Curie
Dirty War
8. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
Jesuits
1618
Dharma
Mercantilism
9. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
Medina
Deism
Talmud
Economic sanctions
10. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Shogun
Protestant Reformation
Mein Kampf
Cossaks
11. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Czar
Zimmerman telegram
Nehru
323 BCE
12. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Manumission
Winston Churchill
Sepoy
13. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Golden Horde
Imperialism
Dar al-Islam
Shogun
14. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America
hadith
The Golden Triangle
Maya
assimilation
15. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
Adolf Hitler
Qing Empire
Hernan Cortes
Aryans
16. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Atlantic System
Alexander the Great
6th century BCE
Macedonia
17. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
1954
St. Augustine
1689
Enconmienda
18. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Darius I
Habsburgs
Qing Empire
Teotihuacan
19. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.
Talmud
Huns
Fransisco Pizarro
Ottomans
20. A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire - now known as Istanbul
Balfour Declaration
pictograms
Constantinople
Neolithic
21. 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
1919
Sasanid Empire
Papyrus
Theodosius
22. 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.
1521
Jose Morelos
Mansa Musa
Scientific Revolution
23. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.
Emilio Aguinaldo
1488
Socialists
King Charles I
24. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Sepoy Mutiny
Code of Hammurabi
Scramble for Africa
Satrapy
25. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Forbidden City
Rama
Atlantic System
Neolithic
26. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Max Planck
Trireme
Sigmund Freud
1885
27. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.
Vladimir Lenin
Iconoclast
1861
Epic of Gilgamesh
28. 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.
Huns
Mita
Sumerians
Cottage industry
29. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
OPEC
Reconquista
Augustus
Vedas
30. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Muhammad
1054 CE
Akbar
Warsaw Pact
31. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.
1931
Memphis
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
32. Date: independence & partition of India
Forbidden City
Macedonia
1947
Cambyses II
33. 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.
Catholic Reformation
Socialists
Patricians
Hundred Years War
34. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
1935
Mita
Neo-Assyrians
Enlightenment
35. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
1066 CE
Thomas Malthus
Emperor Menelik
Aswan High Dam
36. An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960. Represents the majority of all oil produced in the world. Attempts to limit production to raise prices. It's long name is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
4th century CE
Guomindang
OPEC
Roman Republic
37. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Mahabharata
Tang Empire
Steam engine
Mongols
38. 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.
Fascism
Karl Marx
legalism
New Imperialism
39. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
10000 BCE
Gold Coast
Patricians
Mandate of Heaven
40. 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.
Solidarity
Encomienda
Suez Canal
Aborigine
41. 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.
Driver
Stalingrad
Monotheism
Pancho Villa
42. 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.
Diaspora
Adolf Hitler
Roman Principate
Aqueduct
43. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Warring States Period
1324 CE
Qin
Modernization
44. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Hellenistic Age
476 CE
Huns
Tito
45. The central text of Daoism.
Cortes
Darius I
2001
Tao-te Ching
46. 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
liberalism
Punic Wars
1967
1911
47. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
1857
Kepler
Ferdinand Magellan
Bartholomew Dias
48. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vladimir Lenin
Witchcraft
Medina
49. (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).
Ferdinand Magellan
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Witchcraft
King Charles I
50. 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.
Extraterritoriality
Nuremberg Trials
Ghana
Druids