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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
NATO
Bourgeoisie
Plato
Tao-te Ching
2. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Theodosius
Third World
Zhou Dynasty
Divine Right of Kings
3. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Jenne-Jeno
1959
Postmodernism
Dirty War
4. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
Huguenot
10000 BCE
6th century BCE
Persia
5. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Neocolonialism
Swahili
Tanzimat
Jenne-jeno
6. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.
Hebrew Bible
1517
Hundred Years War
Colonization
7. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Napoleonic Wars
Capitalism
Polis
Yin and yang
8. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Thomas Malthus
Mongol Empire
Pearl Harbor
9. 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
Ibn Battuta
Prince Henry The Navigator
Stalingrad
10. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Enlightenment
Hittites
Guomindang
Marie Curie
11. Region of India controlled by Muslims 1206-1520
Mentuhotep I
Delhi Sultanate
Karma
Aryans
12. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Mahabharata
Guilds
Fertile Crescent
Indian National Congress
13. 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.
1325 CE
Stalingrad
Hammurabi
Bhagavad-Gita
14. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Dirty War
Telegraph
Stoicism
City state
15. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Solidarity
632 CE
Babylonian Empire
Cuban Missile Crisis
16. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon
Muscovy
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
legalism
Rajputs
17. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Absolutism
Aztecs
Realpolitik
Muslim
18. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).
Asoka
Karl Marx
Safavid Empire
Treaty of Nanking
19. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Hammurabi
1071 CE
Akhenaten
Teotihuacan
20. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
1914-1918
Harappa
Karma
Persia
21. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.
Fascism
Constantine
Diaspora
Isfahan
22. 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.
Tiananmen Square
Glorious Revolution
Sikhism
Horse collar
23. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
1931
Ziggurat
Humanism
Siberia
24. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
1910
1911
Ming
Twelve Tables
25. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Enlightenment
Treaty of Versailles
Enconmienda
Guilds
26. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.
Shi'a
Vladimir Lenin
Forbidden City
Porfirio Díaz
27. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Vishnu
Hiroshima
Habsburgs
Chinampas
28. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.
Zheng He
Hacienda
Pearl Harbor
Gens de couleur
29. Area between the Greek and Slavic regions; conquered Greece and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Philip II and Alexander the Great
Diaspora
Repartimiento
Macedonia
Nuremberg Trials
30. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Teotihuacan
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Herodotus
Sumer
31. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Sasanid Empire
Muhammad
Shi Huangdi
1863
32. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
Benjamin Franklin
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Treaty of Nanking
1871
33. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Paterfamilias
Holocaust
Asoka
Democracy
34. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125
Mamluks
Nuremberg Trials
Steel
Shi Huangdi
35. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Medina
Muslim
Victorian Age
Asian Tigers
36. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Colombian Exchange
Emperor Menelik
Mita
Jacobins
37. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Mao Zedong
Fransisco Pizarro
Gold Coast
Muhammad
38. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
1914-1918
Republic
Charlemagne
Stock exchange
39. 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.
Stone Age
Muhammad Ali
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tao-te Ching
40. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
Armenia
Colonization
1949
Karl Marx
41. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Humanists
Druids
Mita
Habsburg
42. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
Enlightenment
City state
Hittites
Humanism
43. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Investiture
Ibn Khaldun
Hydrogen bomb
Augustus
44. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices
1863
Syncretism
Jamestown
Mestizo
45. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Umma
Israel
1979
Nuclear nonproliferation
46. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)
Augustus
1347 CE
Maya
Minoans
47. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
NATO
Neocolonialism
Han
Aborigine
48. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Scramble for Africa
Apostle Paul
Daoism
49. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Manchuria
Islam
Four Noble Truths
Zhou Dynasty
50. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
Mestizo
1994
Hellenistic
Faisal