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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. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Hellenistic
Stock exchange
Monotheism
Suez Canal
2. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Neocolonialism
6th century BCE
Totalitarianism
Gamal Abdel Nasser
3. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
Ma'at
Otto von Bismarck
1857
5th century BCE
4. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
Confucius
Hinduism
Solidarity
Battle of Midway
5. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
1600
1258 CE
Ramesses II
Marco Polo
6. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Lama
Khomeini
Semitic
Papacy
7. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
Sanskrit
Jamestown
732 CE
Telegraph
8. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
Czar
Silk Road
Herodotus
Benito Mussolini
9. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Enclosure Movement
Mughal Empire
Ptolemy
WTO
10. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Mauryan Empire
Aborigine
Goths
Driver
11. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.
Telegraph
Golden Horde
All-India Muslim League
Cortes
12. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Tang Revival
Economic sanctions
Muscovy
Gulag
13. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma
Otto von Bismarck
Celts
Epic of Gilgamesh
1929
14. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Porfirio Díaz
Plebeians
1935
Laissez Faire
15. 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.
Pax Mongolica
Indulgences
Qin
Safavid Empire
16. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
Theodosius
Caesar Augustus
1935
Stock exchange
17. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Shamanism
Apostle Paul
Ibn Khaldun
Bourgeoisie
18. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Ming
Rajputs
Emperor Menelik
Olmec
19. 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
Hoplite
1815
Perestroika
1502
20. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Samurai
Hellenistic Age
Mita
5th century BCE
21. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Stoicism
Mantra
Afrikaners
Acropolis
22. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
1939
Liu Bang
Dutch West India Company
All-India Muslim League
23. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
1618
Ottomans
Labor union
Ulama
24. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
1987
Ming
Druids
Jose Morelos
25. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
Mecca
Electricity
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Christopher Columbus
26. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
Islam
1324 CE
Guild
Mali
27. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.
Totalitarianism
Asoka
Protestant Reformation
Tennis Court Oath
28. 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.
Hinduism
Silk Road
European Community
Juan Peron
29. 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.
Apostle Paul
Separate Spheres
1571
Taiping Rebellion
30. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Peloponnesian War
Nubians
Siddhartha Gautama
Agricultural Revolution
31. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Iron curtain
Jacobins
Nazca
Perestroika
32. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
1910
Memphis
Victorian Age
Divine Right of Kings
33. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
Roman Principate
Carthage
Daoism
Dar al-Islam
34. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.
Saddam Hussein
1533
Constantinople
Jose Morelos
35. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
ideograms
Kamikaze
Byzantine Empire
Ferdinand Magellan
36. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century
Diocletian
Railroads
Ayatollah Khomeini
Bread and Circuses
37. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Capitalism
Bourgeoisie
Maya
Epic of Gilgamesh
38. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the
1979
Huguenot
Diocletian
Nazism
39. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E.
Steel
European Community
Ghana
Chiefdom
40. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.
1789
Nirvana
Bread and Circuses
Ming
41. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
ziggurat
Janissaries
Four Noble Truths
Paleolithic
42. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
Hellenistic
Empress Dowager Cixi
Otto von Bismarck
Horse collar
43. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
Fidel Castro
1863
Bantu
Prince Henry The Navigator
44. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Porfirio Díaz
Humanism
1271-1295 CE
Hammurabi
45. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age
Benito Mussolini
1588
Stalingrad
Stone Age
46. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Minoans
Octavian
Creole
Martin Luther
47. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
Berlin Blockade
Copernicus
1054 CE
Gold Coast
48. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Movable type
Polis
Constantinople
Abbasid Dynasty
49. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
Pancho Villa
Labor union
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
1689
50. 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.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Saddam Hussein
Diaspora
Mentuhotep I