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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Balfour Declaration
Ibn Khaldun
Jizya
Vedas
2. 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.
Olmec
Industrial Revolution
Dutch West India Company
Isfahan
3. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Little Ice Age
Ulama
Code of Hammurabi
Puritans
4. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
732 CE
Suez Canal
Hiroshima
Atahualpa
5. 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.
Cecil Rhodes
Goths
cuneiform
Indulgences
6. 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.
Printing press
Great Western Schism
Jenne-jeno
Mycenae
7. 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
Qing Empire
Sandinista
Hernan Cortes
Cold War
8. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.
Aryans
Agricultural Revolution
Tanzimat
vassal
9. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Encomienda
Apostle Paul
King Charles I
Junk
10. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam
Sufi
Paleolithic
Ulama
Napoleon
11. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Indentured servitude
Postmodernism
Sigmund Freud
Gulag
12. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
Bolshevik
Daoism
Italian Renaissance
Scientific Revolution
13. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.
Apostle Paul
Junk
Scientific Revolution
European Community
14. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Tanakh
Separate Spheres
Nubians
15. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
1488
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nuclear nonproliferation
Middle Passage
16. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
Tenochtitlan
Isfahan
Gujarat
Delhi Sulatanate
17. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
Hiroshima
1967
Plato
Mechanization
18. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Diaspora
National Assembly
Siddhartha Gautama
Thomas Edison
19. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
Aryans
Sahel
1607
1987
20. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Olmec
Monophysites
Druids
Three-field system
21. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
Hellenistic Age
Nehru
Congress of Vienna
1300 BCE
22. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
1899
Christopher Columbus
Teotihuacan
Girondins
23. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Stoicism
Great Zimbabwe
cuneiform
Epic of Gilgamesh
24. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
NATO
Neo-Assyrians
Puranas
Henry the Navigator
25. 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.
Totalitarianism
Steppes
Mein Kampf
Karma
26. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Atahualpa
Celts
1979
Karl Marx
27. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.
vassal
10000 BCE
Dar al-Islam
Divination
28. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
1945
Hieroglyphics
Constitutionalism
Copernicus
29. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Oracle Bones
Divination
NATO
Zaibatsu
30. 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.
Joint-stock company
Ottomans
Syncretism
4th century CE
31. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)
Western Front
Bartolomeu Dias
Stoicism
Keiretsu
32. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Botany Bay
Habsburgs
Hammurabi
Rajputs
33. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.
Safavid Persia
Alexandria
Nuclear nonproliferation
Darius I
34. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.
Mita
Vasco da Gama
Teotihuacan
Tributary system
35. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Liu Bang
Stock exchange
World Bank
Zoroastrianism
36. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.
Lusitania
Pax Romana
Perestroika
Aqueduct
37. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Zoroastrianism
Josiah Wedgwood
Sunnis
Theravada Buddhism
38. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Guomindang
Witch-hunt
1967
New Economic Policy
39. 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.
Mauryan Empire
Tanzimat
Neocolonialism
Jesuits
40. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
1071 CE
Ramesses II
Armenia
Rigveda
41. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.
Great Circuit
Roman Principate
Xia
ethnic cleansing
42. 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.
Balfour Declaration
Indian Ocean
Jenne-jeno
Scientific Revolution
43. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Iroquois Confederacy
Manchuria
Absolutism
Epic of Gilgamesh
44. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)
1917
Hieroglyphics
Pericles
1588
45. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Habsburg
Faisal
Zheng He
Tanzimat
46. Treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire - denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders - opened additional ports of residence to Britons - and ceded Hong Kong to Britain
Faisal
Yellow Turban
Treaty of Nanking
Colombian Exchange
47. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Celts
Muhammad
1588
Estates General
48. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Yellow Turban
Cixi
Girondins
49. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
1941
323 BCE
Glorious Revolution
Hellenistic
50. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Xia
Holocaust
Aryans
Nuremberg Trials