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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Tanakh
Tang Empire
Keiretsu
Rigveda
2. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
Adolf Hitler
Medina
Asian Tigers
Czar
3. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Hegemony
323 BCE
Caravel
Jose Morelos
4. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
John Locke
Constantinople
Mass production
Encomienda
5. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Emperor Menelik
Sumer
cuneiform
Cixi
6. 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
Mandate System
Ghana
4th century CE
Ming
7. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt
Assimilation
1517
Laissez faire
Cambyses II
8. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
1935
Moksha
Teotihuacan
Colombian Exchange
9. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)
1950
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Hellenistic Age
1492
10. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West - but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ming
Teotihuacan
Afrikaners
11. 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
Socialists
Prince Henry The Navigator
Han
Bhagavad-Gita
12. 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.
Battle of Midway
Constantine
League of Nations
Congress of Vienna
13. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Theodosius
Aztecs
Buddhism
Macartney Mission
14. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Franz Ferdinand
Wheel of Life
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Zheng He
15. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th
Helsinki Accords
Zhou Dynasty
Atlantic System
Sandinista
16. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)
1588
Mechanization
Goths
Encomienda
17. The central text of Daoism.
Salvador Allende
Colombian Exchange
Tao-te Ching
Mongol Empire
18. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
Benito Mussolini
Nirvana
Punic Wars
Siberia
19. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.
Hundred Years War
Pancho Villa
Trireme
3000s BCE
20. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Perestroika
Young Turks
Papacy
Empiricism
21. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
Plebeians
Mita
Marco Polo
Berlin Blockade
22. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
Aristotle
Bourgeoisie
632 CE
Maya
23. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Imperialism
Diaspora
Enconmienda
urbanization
24. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
333 CE
Vedas
Witchcraft
Puritans
25. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
Forbidden City
Berlin Blockade
Ziggurat
League of Nations
26. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.
Octavian
Warring States Period
Warsaw Pact
Imperialism
27. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)
Movable type
NATO
Charles de Gaulle
Jacobins
28. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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29. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.
cuneiform
The Mahdi
Fidel Castro
1861
30. 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.
Cotton
323 BCE
Romanization
Emilio Aguinaldo
31. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
1935
Prince Henry The Navigator
Glorious Revolution
Hieroglyphics
32. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Memphis
Iconoclast
City state
Mercantilism
33. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Hernan Cortes
Realpolitik
Augustus
Benjamin Franklin
34. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
legalism
Faisal
Fransisco Pizarro
Paleolithic
35. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Inca
Muslim
Laissez faire
Fourteen Points
36. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Jamestown
Balance of power
Four Noble Truths
Constantinople
37. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
McCarthyism
Marco Polo
Zhou Dynasty
Zionism
38. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
Delhi
1919
Muhammad
Suleiman the Magnificent
39. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
1607
Humanism
Bantu
Apostle Paul
40. Period in the 16th and 17th centuries where many thinkers rejected doctrines of the past dealing with the natural world in favor of new scientific ideas.
McCarthyism
Scientific Revolution
NATO
Mauryan Empire
41. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.
Bolsheviks
Aqueduct
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Olmec
42. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.
The Golden Triangle
Israel
Perestroika
Winston Churchill
43. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
Samurai
Solon
1962
1815
44. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Solomon's Temple
Carthage
Pax Romana
1571
45. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Caliphate
476 CE
Janissary
Getulio Vargas
46. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
Nazca
Siddhartha Gautama
Sasanid Empire
1945
47. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
Mita
Emilano Zapata
Alexander the Great
Eva Peron
48. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Akbar
Indulgences
Abolition
Beijing
49. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Francisco Franco
Stoicism
Montezuma II
Hacienda
50. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Cecil Rhodes
Xia
Zimmerman telegram
Capitalism