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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
urbanization
Constantinople
1935
Samurai
2. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
1258 CE
Nongovernmental Organizations
Nehru
Comfort girls
3. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Ottomans
Carthage
League of Nations
Balance of power
4. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Mita
Copernicus
Daoism
Panama Canal
5. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Abbasid Caliphate
Teotihuacan
Mughal Empire
Zen
6. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
Hinduism
Enlightenment
Prince Henry The Navigator
1945
7. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Ptolemy
Papyrus
Treaty of Versailles
Diffusion
8. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
Railroads
United Nations
Philip II
Czar
9. 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.
Siberia
Western Front
Sudetenland
Mass production
10. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600
George Washington
Italian Renaissance
Martin Luther
Otto von Bismarck
11. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.
Hittites
Bread and Circuses
Keiretsu
Varna
12. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Neocolonialism
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Middle Passage
Cossaks
13. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Czar
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Sandinista
Indian Ocean
14. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Adolf Hitler
Liu Bang
Horse collar
Tang Empire
15. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
Theravada Buddhism
Opium Wars
Delian League
Empiricism
16. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Colonialism
Enlightenment
Stalingrad
Encomienda
17. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
Ma'at
Devshirme
Railroads
Hundred Years War
18. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
Sanskrit
Steppes
Shi Huangdi
pictograms
19. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Delhi Sultanate
Cold War
Nation-State
1453 CE
20. 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.
Treaty of Versailles
1839
National Assembly
Safavid Empire
21. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
Devshirme
John Locke
Faisal
732 CE
22. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Karma
Minoans
Nehru
Akbar
23. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Sufi
1929
Witch-hunt
Treaty Ports
24. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
Bantu
Puritans
1962
Medieval
25. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state
Aristotle
Papacy
1521
Macedonia
26. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Sumerians
Creoles
Horse collar
Mantra
27. 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.
Francisco Franco
Empress Wu
Stoicism
Janissaries
28. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires
Persia
1618
Bolshevik
Babylonian Empire
29. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hanseatic League
All-India Muslim League
Aswan High Dam
1994
30. 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.
Bhagavad-Gita
Mongol Empire
1947
Printing press
31. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
deforestation
Forbidden City
1949
3000s BCE
32. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A
Humanism
Cold War
Crystal Palace
10000 BCE
33. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Napoleon Bonaparte
Balance of power
1941
Dalai Lama
34. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Lama
Samurai
Adolf Hitler
All-India Muslim League
35. 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
Gothic Cathedrals
Jacobins
Tang Revival
Sasanid Empire
36. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Huguenot
Joseph Stalin
Vedas
1899
37. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
Gujarat
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Taiping Rebellion
1941
38. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.
Twelve Tables
Armenia
Delhi Sulatanate
Stoicism
39. 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.
Emilio Aguinaldo
1054 CE
Balance of Power
Hieroglyphics
40. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Socrates
City state
1945
Medieval
41. 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.
Colonialism
Mongols
John Locke
Pax Romana
42. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Jesuits
Tokugawa Shogunate
Enconmienda
Civilian Conservation Corps
43. 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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44. Date: independence & partition of India
Battle of Midway
1947
Western Front
Stone Age
45. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
Minoans
Imperialism
Joint-stock company
Papyrus
46. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.
Collectivization
Caliphate
Alexander the Great
2001
47. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.
Getulio Vargas
Opium Wars
Agora
Cuban Missile Crisis
48. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Hanseatic League
1300 BCE
Hoplite
Proxy war
49. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
Sepoy Mutiny
Movable type
Samurai
Glorious Revolution
50. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.
Mongol Empire
Constitutionalism
Parthians
Monsoon