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AP World History

Subjects : history, ap, bvat
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.






2. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt






3. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)






4. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.






5. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)






6. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution






7. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)






8. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.






9. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.






10. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.






11. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.






12. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.






13. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma






14. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do






15. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.






16. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)






17. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism






18. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).






19. 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






20. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan






21. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.






22. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.






23. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.






24. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)






25. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.






26. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.






27. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.






28. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.






29. 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.






30. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.






31. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.






32. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.






33. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars






34. 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.






35. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part






36. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century






37. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.






38. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the






39. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.






40. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.






41. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.






42. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.






43. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.






44. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.






45. 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






46. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices






47. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.






48. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire






49. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)






50. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.