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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Samurai
1962
Huns
Octavian
2. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Zaibatsu
Cultural imperialism
Agora
Macedonia
3. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Enclosure Movement
Philip II
Getulio Vargas
Sunnis
4. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
Joesph Stalin
Delhi
Max Planck
Byzantine Empire
5. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Ghana
Sikhs
Buddha
Akbar
6. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
1492
1776
Song Dynasty
Babylon
7. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities
1871
Delian League
Monophysites
Champa Rice
8. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.
Abbasid Caliphate
1848
Indulgences
Monotheism
9. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
Carthage
Protestant Reformation
Parthians
Berlin Conference
10. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Franz Ferdinand
Zapata
Terrorism
Albert Einstein
11. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Mandate System
Holocaust
Gujarat
Fascist Party
12. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
1931
Muhammad Ali
Great Circuit
Nomad
13. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Cyrus
Shakespeare
Constantinople
The Mahdi
14. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.
League of Nations
New Economic Policy
Atahualpa
Sun Yat-Sen
15. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Ming
Balance of power
Napoleonic Wars
16. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. Although his real name was Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.).
Confucius
1815
Realpolitik
Siddhartha Gautama
17. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Diffusion
Reconquista
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Cold War
18. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
ideograms
1324 CE
Socialists
Gupta Empire
19. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Han
Bartholomew Dias
1857
Chiefdom
20. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
1271-1295 CE
Tiananmen Square
Colonization
Asian Tigers
21. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Swahili
1492
Twelve Tables
32 CE
22. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
Octavian
1607
Shah Abbas I
1950
23. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
Khomeini
Monophysites
Scientific Revolution
Socialists
24. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
Constitutionalism
Muhammad Ali
Prince Henry The Navigator
Papacy
25. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)
32 CE
Paleolithic
Colonization
Cyrus
26. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.
Gens de couleur
Delhi Sultanate
Israel
NATO
27. 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.
Cossaks
Bantu
1756
Treaty of Versailles
28. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Bartolomeu Dias
Steel
Movable type
Plato
29. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Congress of Vienna
Siberia
Cossaks
Golden Horde
30. 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.
Great Western Schism
Rigveda
Tenochtitlan
Julius Caesar
31. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Mita
Yuan Empire
Repartimiento
Royal African Company
32. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
McCarthyism
Druids
Girondins
Hiroshima
33. 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
Khomeini
Constitutional Convention
Ibn Khaldun
Sumerians
34. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
Yin and yang
1683
1911
Polis
35. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.
Mentuhotep I
Henry the Navigator
Akbar
Hinduism
36. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Karma
Economic sanctions
Abbasid Caliphate
Goths
37. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
Sufi
NATO
Reconquista
Declaration of the Rights of Man
38. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
Sasanid Empire
Nirvana
Gens de couleur
Bolshevik
39. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
1815
Great Western Schism
Socrates
Golden Horde
40. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.
220 CE
Maya
Scramble for Africa
Indian National Congress
41. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Electricity
Balance of power
Rama
Mass deportation
42. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
Zaibatsu
1861
1453 CE
Memphis
43. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Talmud
Imperialism
Empiricism
Protestant Reformation
44. 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.
Mongol Empire
1683
Jenne-jeno
Napoleon Bonaparte
45. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Mandate of Heaven
Inca
World Bank
1324 CE
46. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Ottomans
Papacy
Emilio Aguinaldo
Zoroaster
47. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
Indentured servitude
Hittites
Mein Kampf
Albert Einstein
48. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.
Triumvirate
Delian League
Paleolithic
Syncretism
49. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.
Medina
Mahayana Buddhism
Scientific Revolution
Mauryan Empire
50. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.
Acropolis
Mohandas Gandhi
Solomon's Temple
Suez Canal