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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
Constitutionalism
St. Augustine
Apostle Paul
Babylon
2. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Deism
Mahayana Buddhism
Diffusion
1956
3. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Islam
Guild
urbanization
Han
4. Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one - while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century - this new form of economic imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin America
Neocolonialism
Yurt
95 Theses
Yongle
5. During the Cold War - countries who did not want to support either side sometimes declared themselves to be.
Nonaligned
Nuclear nonproliferation
Yongle
Armenia
6. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Albert Einstein
1949
Fidel Castro
Romanization
7. 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.
1949
Faisal
Tang Revival
Medieval
8. 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.
loess
Taiping Rebellion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Steppes
9. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
1941
Faisal
Paterfamilias
Railroads
10. 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.
Ramesses II
OPEC
Kamikaze
Yellow Turban
11. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs
Cixi
1948
Albert Einstein
Zhou Dynasty
12. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Copernicus
Charles de Gaulle
Hadith
Druids
13. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Peloponnesian War
Tang Empire
Puranas
Karl Marx
14. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Tributary system
1935
Xia
Minoan
15. 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.
Champa Rice
Guild
Estates General
Faisal
16. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
Long March
Artha-sastra
Zhou Dynasty
Umma
17. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Ming
Zhou dynasty
Humanism
League of Nations
18. 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
Scramble for Africa
Tokugawa Shogunate
Semitic
Manchus
19. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
Suez Canal
Hellenistic
Mandate of Heaven
Centuries
20. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.
Guomindang
Great Zimbabwe
Epic of Gilgamesh
Safavid Empire
21. 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.
Socrates
Grand Canal
Colombian Exchange
Apostle Paul
22. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i
Mahabharata
Karma
Mycenae
Qing Empire
23. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Mali
Pax Romana
1911
Third World
24. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology - cuneiform - and religious concept
Serf
Sumer
Sumerians
Thomas Edison
25. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
Octavian
1967
Persepolis
Guilds
26. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Capitalism
Mongol Empire
527 CE
Hellenistic
27. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
Christopher Columbus
Daoism
St. Augustine
Witch-hunt
28. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Extraterritoriality
Absolutism
Nikita Khrushchev
Constitutionalism
29. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Zen
Trireme
Sigmund Freud
Sepoy Mutiny
30. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Huguenot
476 CE
Janissary
Fidel Castro
31. 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.
Teotihuacan
Minoans
Gupta Empire
Treaty of Versailles
32. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Aristotle
Black Death
Hammurabi
Nation-State
33. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.
Movable type
Long March
Mahayana Buddhism
Congress of Vienna
34. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Hellenistic Age
Caste system
Emilio Aguinaldo
1571
35. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena
1941
Napoleon
Leonardo da Vinci
Colonialism
36. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
Silk Road
Confucius
Nirvana
Hacienda
37. The founder of Buddhism
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tribute system
Yin and yang
Siddhartha Gautama
38. The more mystical and larger of the two main Buddhist sects - this one originated in India in the 400s CE and gradually found its way north to the Silk road and into Central and East Asia.
Mahayana Buddhism
Gens de couleur
Nonaligned
Ma'at
39. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.
Suleiman the Magnificent
Samsara
Agora
Humanism
40. The economic system of large financial institutions-banks - stock exchanges - investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. The belief that all people should seek their own profit gain and that doing so is beneficial to society. S
Capitalism
Toussaint L'Ouverture
1492
Babylonian Empire
41. Date: independence & partition of India
Buddha
Trireme
1947
Fascist Party
42. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
Macedonia
Bartolome de Las Casas
Mandate System
McCarthyism
43. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
2001
Mycenae
Solomon's Temple
Ottomans
44. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
Persepolis
Thomas Edison
Bourgeoisie
45. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Zimmerman telegram
32 CE
1929
Trireme
46. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Balance of power
Adolf Hitler
Uigurs
1848
47. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Indian Ocean
Dutch West India Company
Gunpowder
Capitalism
48. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Hiroshima
1914-1918
Hittites
Mycenae
49. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Quran
Guomindang
Chinampas
Bartolomeu Dias
50. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany
Sun Yat-sen
Grand Canal
1989
pictograms