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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Plebeians
Safavid Persia
Solon
Peloponnesian War
2. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Napoleon Bonaparte
Shogun
Trireme
3. 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.
Extraterritoriality
Sub-Saharan Africa
Mecca
Indulgences
4. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Mandate System
Humanism
Treaty Ports
Buddha
5. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.
1521
Byzantine Empire
Panama Canal
Parthians
6. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Hanseatic League
Cecil Rhodes
Caliphate
1899
7. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Hammurabi
Karl Marx
Roman Principate
Cyrus
8. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
1815
1910
Maya
Indulgences
9. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
Byzantine Empire
Safavid Empire
Buddha
Gupta Empire
10. American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb - acoustic recording on wax cylinders - and motion pictures.
Aborigine
Thomas Edison
Iroquois Confederacy
Philip II
11. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hanseatic League
Max Planck
1911
Crystal Palace
12. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Tributary system
Zheng He
Joint-stock company
Vedas
13. 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.
Qin
hadith
Timur
Salvador Allende
14. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.
Philosophes
Medina
Paleolithic
1607
15. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities
Pax Mongolica
Aqueduct
Cortes
Delian League
16. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
Mita
1935
Janissary
Thomas Edison
17. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Martin Luther
Parthians
Daoism
Sahel
18. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Great Zimbabwe
Pancho Villa
Song Dynasty
1914-1918
19. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Submarine telegraph cables
Ghana
Mestizo
Vladimir Lenin
20. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Delhi
Royal African Company
Persia
21. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.
Faisal
Tiananmen Square
Monsoon
Thomas Malthus
22. 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
Gentry
Ramesses II
Guild
23. 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.
Atahualpa
1839
Medieval
Black Death
24. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
Trireme
1954
Alexander the Great
Marco Polo
25. Spanish estates that were often plantations
Humanism
Leonardo da Vinci
Young Turks
Hacienda
26. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
pictograms
Macartney Mission
Middle Passage
Tributary system
27. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Zulu
Theodosius
Guild
Pilgrimage
28. From Latin caesar - this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).
Czar
Khipu
Pericles
Memphis
29. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Sub-Saharan Africa
John F. Kennedy
Asoka
Philip II
30. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Fidel Castro
Cyrus
Girondins
Sikhs
31. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Montezuma II
Absolutism
Sumer
Roman Senate
32. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o
Macedonia
Neo-Assyrian Empire
323 BCE
Bengal
33. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Creole
Bartolome de Las Casas
deforestation
Mestizo
34. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
1488
Babylon
Serf
Mecca
35. 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)
Fertile Crescent
Ulama
Monasticism
Monotheism
36. 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.
Carthage
ethnic cleansing
Balance of Power
Buddha
37. The head of the family or household in Roman law -always male- and the only member to have full legal rights. This person had absolute power over his family - which extended to life and death.
Paterfamilias
Yin and yang
Manchuria
Mamluks
38. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Manchus
Safavid Persia
Umayyad Caliphate
Winston Churchill
39. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
1433 CE
Sikhism
Legalism
Macartney Mission
40. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Durbar
Scholasticism
Manumission
Jesus
41. 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.
Varna
urbanization
Great Western Schism
Steel
42. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Socrates
Divine Right of Kings
Maya
Bantu
43. 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
Suez Canal
Gunpowder
Iconoclast
44. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)
Olmec
Ziggurat
1839
Humanism
45. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Franz Ferdinand
Economic sanctions
Silk Road
Colonialism
46. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
St. Augustine
Colonialism
180 CE
Abolition
47. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
4th century CE
Huguenot
Bantu
Balfour Declaration
48. 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
Mahabharata
Zoroastrianism
Mestizo
Holocaust
49. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
Twelve Tables
Trireme
Zhou
Printing press
50. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Herodotus
Mahabharata
Driver
Movable type