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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)
Centuries
1776
Safavid Empire
Bolshevik
2. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices
Syncretism
Scientific Revolution
Caste system
1588
3. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)
Puritans
Sudetenland
Fourteen Points
1839
4. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
Zionism
1258 CE
Industrial Revolution
Solomon's Temple
5. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Cortes
Kepler
Mita
Bourgeoisie
6. Date: end of WWII
1945
Delhi Sulatanate
1488
Chiefdom
7. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Balance of power
Hammurabi
Yin and yang
Guomindang
8. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC
Iron curtain
Scholasticism
1861
Mahabharata
9. 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
Sandinista
Apostle Paul
1905
Getulio Vargas
10. The exchange of plants - animals - diseases - and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
732 CE
Bread and Circuses
Columbian Exchange
vassal
11. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Samsara
Xia
Thomas Edison
Investiture
12. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Mein Kampf
Teotihuacan
Gujarat
Daoism
13. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Great Zimbabwe
Paterfamilias
Shah Abbas I
Shinto
14. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
Tiananmen Square
1689
95 Theses
Epic of Gilgamesh
15. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
Byzantine Empire
Socialists
Theodosius
ethnic cleansing
16. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
loess
Copernicus
Jose Morelos
Muscovy
17. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Royal African Company
Satrapy
Henry the Navigator
Olmec
18. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Dharma
Ayatollah Khomeini
Olmec
19. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Muscovy
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Delhi Sultanate
20. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
Ziggurat
Constitutionalism
Fourteen Points
1433 CE
21. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Diaspora
Tanakh
Tang Revival
Mandate of Heaven
22. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Bantu
Yurt
Three-field system
Francisco Franco
23. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Fascist Party
Henry the Navigator
Ayatollah Khomeini
Scramble for Africa
24. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Enclosure Movement
Champa Rice
Comfort girls
Ulama
25. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Nation-State
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Enlightenment
Protestant Reformation
26. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Celts
Asoka
Electricity
Dirty War
27. 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
Nation-State
Mandate System
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Berlin Conference
28. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
hadith
Josiah Wedgwood
Tenochtitlan
Mughal Empire
29. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.
1502
Witchcraft
Talmud
Young Turks
30. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Four Noble Truths
Scientific Revolution
Nomad
Bartolomeu Dias
31. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Khubilai Khan
632 CE
Jainism
Maya
32. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.
Indulgence
1954
1324 CE
Charlemagne
33. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Jesus
Peloponnesian War
Karl Marx
Pericles
34. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Sub-Saharan Africa
1956
Gold Coast
1871
35. A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire - now known as Istanbul
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Atlantic System
Constantinople
Cotton
36. Associations of businessmen and producers
Bolsheviks
hadith
Constantine
Guilds
37. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
1839
French Revolution
Indulgence
Hoplite
38. 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.
Fascist Party
1789
The Mahdi
Scholasticism
39. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
New Economic Policy
Pax Romana
1914-1918
1979
40. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Guild
Harappa
1324 CE
Josiah Wedgwood
41. 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
Muhammad
Carthage
Syncretism
42. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.
1517
Hadith
Nongovernmental Organizations
Black Death
43. Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin(Hint: __25 CE)
Roman Principate
Vasco da Gama
Balance of power
1325 CE
44. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Silk Road
Scramble for Africa
Monasticism
Quran
45. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Nuremberg Trials
The Mahdi
Sumerians
Syncretism
46. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.
Mohenjo-Daro
Fascism
1848
Theodosius
47. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
Janissary
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Hellenistic
Ibn Khaldun
48. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.
1931
Qin
Nazism
Jainism
49. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
Charlemagne
Monophysites
Proxy war
Mahayana Buddhism
50. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.
1929
Western Front
Philosophes
Salvador Allende