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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.
Mycenae
Israel
732 CE
Five Year Plans
2. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Habsburgs
Bartholomew Dias
Janissaries
Siddhartha Gautama
3. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.
Shang Dynasty
Columbian Exchange
Triumvirate
Trireme
4. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Nonaligned
Oracle Bones
Bourgeoisie
Nehru
5. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Uigurs
Manchus
Five Year Plans
Maori
6. 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
Shang
Republic
Muscovy
Macartney Mission
7. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Laissez Faire
Monasticism
Sandinista
Siddhartha Gautama
8. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
1935
Carthage
1618
6th century BCE
9. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
French Revolution
Sandinistas
Siddhartha Gautama
Janissaries
10. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
Gunpowder
Tribute system
Suez Canal
Joesph Stalin
11. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Saddam Hussein
1959
Enlightenment
Bourgeoisie
12. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.
Mycenae
Steel
Teotihuacan
Enconmienda
13. 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.)
Mahabharata
Mestizo
Pax Romana
Triumvirate
14. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
Prince Henry The Navigator
Young Turks
Taiping Rebellion
1919
15. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Capitalism
Hittites
Josiah Wedgwood
Concordat
16. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
Stone Age
ziggurat
1994
1600
17. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Minoans
Telegraph
Republic
Macartney Mission
18. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)
Thebes
Gentry
deforestation
1776
19. Associations of businessmen and producers
Guilds
Tiananmen Square
Enlightenment
pictograms
20. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
1899
Realpolitik
Stoicism
1588
21. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Cyrus II
Tanzimat
Punic Wars
Adolf Hitler
22. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Sepoy
Emilio Aguinaldo
Aztecs
Benito Mussolini
23. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Julius Caesar
Delhi Sultanate
Apostle Paul
Romanization
24. 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.
Hammurabi
Babylon
Jose Morelos
Tang Revival
25. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)
Royal African Company
Roman Republic
Minoan
Caste system
26. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Gulag
Shang
Manor
Yellow River
27. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o
Bengal
Sufi
1949
Sigmund Freud
28. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Albert Einstein
Tao-te Ching
Champa Rice
Zhou dynasty
29. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
95 Theses
1861
1588
Diffusion
30. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Stalingrad
Zulu
Shakespeare
Deism
31. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Tang Empire
Sepoy
Constantinople
Hegemony
32. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
Mandate of Heaven
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Mahabharata
Guilds
33. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.
Sun Yat-sen
Horse collar
Plato
Daoism
34. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
Mita
Huns
Tenochtitlan
1258 CE
35. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Sepoy
Macartney Mission
Code of Hammurabi
Stone Age
36. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
1857
Karma
Albert Einstein
Plato
37. 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
Stone Age
Simon Bolivar
Liu Bang
Maori
38. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
Tokugawa Shogunate
Indian Ocean
Carthage
Albert Einstein
39. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Neolithic
Ma'at
Albert Einstein
Deism
40. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
1899
95 Theses
220 CE
Bolsheviks
41. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
Labor union
Gold Coast
Julius Caesar
Darius I
42. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
The Mahdi
Electricity
Vedas
1588
43. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Carthage
Stoicism
Driver
44. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
Abolition
Centuries
1935
Korean War
45. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.
Jacobins
Lusitania
Beijing
Timur
46. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Zulu
Hacienda
Witchcraft
Diaspora
47. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Maori
1991
Harappa
Cyrus II
48. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Cixi
Nubians
Medieval
Goths
49. 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.
Saddam Hussein
Collectivization
Celts
1571
50. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Indian Civil Service
Berlin Blockade
1979
Uigurs