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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
Benjamin Franklin
Diocletian
Mestizo
1848
2. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
Napoleon
1954
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Afrikaners
3. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Devshirme
Neo-Assyrians
Driver
Extraterritoriality
4. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
WTO
Ma'at
Proxy war
Faisal
5. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
1804
Proxy wars
Leonid Brezhnev
1919
6. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
United Nations
Colombian Exchange
Neolithic
Kamikaze
7. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
Bolsheviks
Teotihuacan
Manor
1300 BCE
8. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
George Washington
Electricity
Shakespeare
Nonaligned
9. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Mongols
Benito Mussolini
Meiji Restoration
Mecca
10. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Absolutism
Hieroglyphics
1991
King Charles I
11. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Bantu
Joesph Stalin
1804
Shogun
12. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Dirty War
Vedas
Khubilai Khan
1066 CE
13. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.
1683
Centuries
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Samurai
14. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Ottomans
Hellenistic
National Assembly
15. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Yellow Turban
Fransisco Pizarro
Shinto
333 CE
16. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Christopher Columbus
1959
Teotihuacan
Bourgeoisie
17. 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.
OPEC
Zheng He
Delhi Sulatanate
1935
18. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Faisal
1258 CE
Punic Wars
Janapadas
19. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Hammurabi
Persia
Ibn Khaldun
Moksha
20. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
St. Augustine
Colombian Exchange
1935
1756
21. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Druids
Fascist Party
Marco Polo
Mercantilism
22. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Joseph Stalin
Moksha
Safavid Persia
NATO
23. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)
Pax Romana
Mestizo
Weimar Republic
Guomindang
24. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Great Circuit
Socialists
Mohenjo-Daro
Constitutional Convention
25. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.
Nirvana
ethnic cleansing
Fresco
Treaty of Versailles
26. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Telegraph
Rama
1756
27. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Perestroika
Investiture
1949
Winston Churchill
28. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
Carthage
Theodosius
Mecca
Oracle Bones
29. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Shi Huangdi
Varna
Telegraph
Mestizo
30. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent
Long March
Stoicism
Babylon
Divine Right of Kings
31. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
Pax Romana
Korean War
Dalai Lama
Bolsheviks
32. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
Safavid Empire
Teotihuacan
Siddhartha Gautama
Liu Bang
33. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
Delhi
Daoism
Czar
Ayatollah Khomeini
34. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
Congress of Vienna
Nomad
Neo-Assyrians
Prince Henry The Navigator
35. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
2001
Hatshepsut
ideograms
1533
36. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Young Turks
Carthage
Theodosius
Moksha
37. 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
Ottomans
Acropolis
Bengal
Abbasid Dynasty
38. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
Consul
Olmec
Huguenot
City state
39. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Zaibatsu
Napoleon Bonaparte
Treaty of Versailles
Concordat
40. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Pericles
Aristotle
Hernan Cortes
French Revolution
41. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Treaty of Versailles
Leonid Brezhnev
Sigmund Freud
Black Death
42. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Philosophes
hadith
Aswan High Dam
Porfirio Díaz
43. 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.
Pericles
Bhagavad-Gita
European Community
Stoicism
44. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Harappa
Cotton
Sumer
Congress of Vienna
45. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.
Ma'at
Islam
Timur
Maya
46. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Gold Coast
Zaibatsu
Mikhail Gorbachev
Indulgences
47. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Champa Rice
Iconoclast
Mestizo
Pilgrims
48. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Realpolitik
Adolf Hitler
Vasco da Gama
Khomeini
49. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
Bengal
Jenne-Jeno
Malay
McCarthyism
50. 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.
1948
Paterfamilias
Forbidden City
Socrates