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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Prince Henry The Navigator
legalism
1300 BCE
Romanization
2. 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
476 CE
Joint-stock company
Sumerians
Guild
3. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
Black Death
Caravel
Charlemagne
1300 BCE
4. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
Labor union
1967
League of Nations
Vladimir Lenin
5. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Sun Yat-sen
Papyrus
Fascist Party
1066 CE
6. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Mercantilism
Cotton
1502
Cecil Rhodes
7. Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor - but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.
Thomas Malthus
Qin
Roman Senate
Muhammad Ali
8. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
1810s
Marie Curie
Safavid Persia
4th century CE
9. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Song Dynasty
Fourteen Points
Emilio Aguinaldo
Serbia
10. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Guild
Shogun
Hadith
Confucius
11. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
1950
Richard Arkwright
Aswan High Dam
1325 CE
12. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state
Guild
1956
Khomeini
Aristotle
13. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Cultural imperialism
Pax Romana
Caliphate
Maori
14. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Julius Caesar
Neolithic
Varna
Estates General
15. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Hydrogen bomb
Tiananmen Square
Medina
Ghana
16. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
All-India Muslim League
Perestroika
Gothic Cathedrals
Tang Empire
17. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.
Grand Canal
Stock exchange
Timur
Karma
18. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Minoan
Maya
220 CE
Suleiman the Magnificent
19. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Nazism
Nubians
Shogun
Great Circuit
20. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Indulgences
Caravel
Christopher Columbus
Hellenistic Age
21. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
Xia
Hoplite
Rigveda
Jose Morelos
22. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga
Treaty of Versailles
Revolutions of 1848
Yongle
Submarine telegraph cables
23. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.
Tenochtitlan
1815
Scholasticism
Aztecs
24. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Papacy
Oracle Bones
1815
Mohenjo-Daro
25. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Cultural Revolution
Franklin D. Roosevelt
2001
Polis
26. 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
Roman Senate
Sikhs
Little Ice Age
27. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Ptolemy
Cecil Rhodes
Enlightenment
1857
28. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Macedonia
Realpolitik
Stone Age
Meiji Restoration
29. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Ibn Battuta
Patricians
Agora
Franklin D. Roosevelt
30. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism
Treaty of Versailles
Warsaw Pact
Warring States Period
OPEC
31. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Mandate of Heaven
1810s
George Washington
Perestroika
32. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Empress Wu
Maya
Monophysites
Sub-Saharan Africa
33. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Chinampas
Rigveda
1910
Montezuma II
34. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
Hatshepsut
Shi'a
Guild
Hegemony
35. The most important work of Indian sacred literature - a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.
Cortes
Bhagavad-Gita
hadith
Habsburg
36. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Joesph Stalin
Holocaust
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Witch-hunt
37. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people
Victorian Age
Xia
1347 CE
Empress Dowager Cixi
38. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Deng Xiaoping
Shakespeare
Four Noble Truths
Acropolis
39. 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
220 CE
Mahabharata
Civilian Conservation Corps
40. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.
Salvador Allende
Sumer
Ibn Khaldun
Pericles
41. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Ptolemy
Montezuma II
Druids
Investiture
42. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Mongols
Papacy
Humanism
Puritans
43. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
Hydrogen bomb
Tanakh
Napoleon Bonaparte
Malay
44. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.
Scientific Revolution
Triumvirate
Electricity
Marco Polo
45. 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.
Mercantilism
Jesus
Jacobins
Scientific Revolution
46. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.
Inca
1517
European Community
Chiefdom
47. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.
Daoism
Auschwitz
Zoroaster
Long March
48. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Pericles
Pancho Villa
Aswan High Dam
Uigurs
49. Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system. (Hint: 1__1)
1521
1911
Movable type
Zoroastrianism
50. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires
Philip II
Manor
Tamil Kingdoms
Persia