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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
1956
Manchus
Bengal
Realpolitik
2. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Neocolonialism
Nation-State
Totalitarianism
Lusitania
3. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder
Akbar
Philip II
Zimmerman telegram
Divine Right of Kings
4. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.
1433 CE
Panama Canal
Philip II
Neo-Assyrian Empire
5. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
Khipu
Dharma
1853
Samurai
6. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Dar al-Islam
Zoroaster
Silk Road
1899
7. 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.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Francisco Franco
Hoplite
Guild
8. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the
Alexander the Great
Vishnu
1789
Apostle Paul
9. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Cultural Revolution
Weimar Republic
Yellow Turban
Vedas
10. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Silk Road
1987
Napoleonic Wars
Hanseatic League
11. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
Monophysites
vassal
Gunpowder
Roman Senate
12. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
Macedonia
Zoroastrianism
Humanism
Creoles
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.
Sanskrit
Guilds
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Centuries
14. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Submarine telegraph cables
Ethiopia
Indian Civil Service
Napoleonic Wars
15. 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
Cyrus II
Persia
Prince Henry The Navigator
16. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
1488
Mentuhotep I
Enclosure Movement
17. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Delhi Sulatanate
Thomas Edison
Third World
Sufi
18. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US
Railroads
Cotton
Celts
Iroquois Confederacy
19. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Treaty of Nanking
Juan Peron
Abbasid Caliphate
Mohenjo-Daro
20. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Civilian Conservation Corps
1054 CE
Cyrus II
Mecca
21. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Code of Hammurabi
Jacobins
Mandate of Heaven
Balfour Declaration
22. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Khubilai Khan
Cotton
Atahualpa
Agora
23. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1271-1295 CE
1947
ideograms
1871
24. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.
Salvador Allende
Creole
Jenne-Jeno
Mongol Empire
25. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)
Stoicism
Suez Canal
Guilds
1325 CE
26. An Indo-European - Indic language - in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
Apostle Paul
Qing Empire
Tang Revival
Sanskrit
27. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
323 BCE
Lusitania
Empress Dowager Cixi
Uigurs
28. A general term for a class of prosperous families - sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Gentry
1861
Lama
Afrikaners
29. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Persian Wars
Medieval
1324 CE
Qing Empire
30. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.
Five Year Plans
Girondins
Mandate System
1948
31. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Pericles
Little Ice Age
Jenne-jeno
Kievan Russia
32. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.
Sumer
Mycenae
Teotihuacan
Paterfamilias
33. 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.
Benito Mussolini
Emilio Aguinaldo
Colombian Exchange
Young Turks
34. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Francisco Franco
Delhi Sultanate
Mercantilism
Eva Peron
35. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Hundred Years War
Akhenaten
Aztecs
Acropolis
36. 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
Sigmund Freud
Getulio Vargas
Diocletian
Emilano Zapata
37. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Benito Mussolini
Mercantilism
All-India Muslim League
Guilds
38. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Mein Kampf
Mass deportation
Pericles
Socrates
39. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
ziggurat
Dirty War
1959
Sokoto Caliphate
40. The Spanish conqueror of Mexico
Mandate of Heaven
Cortes
Sikhism
Zapata
41. 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.
Humanism
Democracy
Stock exchange
Tang Empire
42. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Perestroika
1325 CE
Druids
Suez Canal
43. 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.
Qing Empire
Economic sanctions
Lusitania
Humanism
44. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
Socialists
Vladimir Lenin
Enlightenment
1271-1295 CE
45. 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.
Monophysites
Hanseatic League
Catholic Reformation
Ottomans
46. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
ethnic cleansing
Nuremberg Trials
1521
Sepoy
47. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Rigveda
1300 BCE
Julius Caesar
Emperor Menelik
48. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.
Sufi
Helsinki Accords
Divination
Socialists
49. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Serbia
1521
Huns
Harappa
50. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Great Western Schism
Ghana
John Locke
OPEC