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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Warring States Period
Inca
Four Noble Truths
Emilano Zapata
2. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Max Planck
Tang Empire
Juan Peron
3. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
Hundred Years War
Treaty of Nanking
1911
Nazism
4. A French Protestant
Encomienda
The Mahdi
Huguenot
Bengal
5. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
Sepoy Mutiny
Balance of Power
Franz Ferdinand
1453 CE
6. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
New Economic Policy
Solomon's Temple
Teotihuacan
1871
7. A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)
Royal African Company
Josiah Wedgwood
Teotihuacan
1271-1295 CE
8. 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.
Suez Canal
Hinduism
Humanism
Mita
9. 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.
Capitalism
Octavian
4th century CE
Taiping Rebellion
10. 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.
Ulama
Extraterritoriality
Ibn Khaldun
Hittites
11. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)
1502
Sepoy Mutiny
Muslim
1848
12. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Bartolomeu Dias
Moksha
African National Congress
Yongle
13. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Humanism
Ghana
Porfirio Díaz
Helsinki Accords
14. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
Sun Yat-sen
Sudetenland
1789
Bantu
15. A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development - trade promotion - and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
World Bank
Imperialism
Darius I
Mass production
16. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
Repartimiento
Enlightenment
Trireme
Suez Canal
17. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
Tributary system
Victorian Age
Cyrus
Korean War
18. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tenochtitlan
Balance of power
Yuan Empire
19. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
Totalitarianism
Tokugawa Shogunate
Devshirme
1600
20. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Harappa
Industrial Revolution
Telegraph
1071 CE
21. 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.
Vladimir Lenin
1905
Shakespeare
Mikhail Gorbachev
22. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.
Eva Peron
Mao Zedong
Pax Romana
Zoroastrianism
23. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism
Dharma
Goths
Song Dynasty
Manumission
24. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Sandinistas
Extraterritoriality
Conquistadors
Proxy wars
25. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Colombian Exchange
Martin Luther
Ghana
Peloponnesian War
26. 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.
Berlin Blockade
Tennis Court Oath
Emperor Menelik
Treaty of Versailles
27. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969
Horse collar
Charles de Gaulle
Gentry
Mali
28. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.
Israel
Plato
Henry the Navigator
Ibn Khaldun
29. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Tamil Kingdoms
Simon Bolivar
Concordat
Aryans
30. 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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Atahualpa
Siddhartha Gautama
Italian Renaissance
31. 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.
Grand Canal
Monotheism
Rama
Deism
32. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
1931
Carthage
Benito Mussolini
Olmec
33. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)
Chiefdom
32 CE
Song Dynasty
Cuban Missile Crisis
34. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.
Treaty of Versailles
Bread and Circuses
1959
Hadith
35. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Hacienda
Enlightenment
Minoan
Protestant Reformation
36. 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.
Adolf Hitler
Rajputs
Socrates
Qin
37. A pledge signed by all but one of the members of the Third Estate in France - the first time the French formally opposed Louis XVI
Weimar Republic
Neo-Assyrians
Tennis Court Oath
Guomindang
38. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Janissaries
1979
3000s BCE
Yellow Turban
39. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Aqueduct
Forbidden City
urbanization
ideograms
40. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu
Cultural imperialism
Kepler
Hoplite
Romanization
41. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)
Monasticism
Persepolis
Song Dynasty
Medina
42. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.
Bolshevik
Asante
Mikhail Gorbachev
Zoroastrianism
43. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.
Indulgence
1756
Jenne-Jeno
5th century BCE
44. 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.
Faisal
Ramesses II
Little Ice Age
Treaty Ports
45. 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.
Balance of power
1989
Jacobins
Yongle
46. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Solomon's Temple
Girondins
Pilgrimage
Darius I
47. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Goths
Jizya
Caravel
Creole
48. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.
1939
Manchus
Black Death
Saddam Hussein
49. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Great Zimbabwe
Mita
Nomad
Humanism
50. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Bourgeoisie
Holocaust
Fertile Crescent
Joseph Stalin