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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
All-India Muslim League
Lama
Max Planck
Hinduism
2. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Deism
Humanists
Ayatollah Khomeini
Delhi Sulatanate
3. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Cyrus
1947
Champa Rice
Junk
4. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Vasco da Gama
Papacy
Berlin Conference
1533
5. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
Roman Republic
Telegraph
Cixi
Samsara
6. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
1863
Augustus
Keiretsu
Sokoto Caliphate
7. German leader of the Nazi Party
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Adolf Hitler
527 CE
City state
8. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented
1071 CE
Hieroglyphics
Israel
Olmec
9. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Faisal
Chiefdom
Samurai
Hebrew Bible
10. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Buddha
Asoka
Mycenae
Islam
11. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Cultural imperialism
Junk
Hundred Years War
1885
12. 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.
hadith
Bartholomew Dias
323 BCE
Tenochtitlan
13. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Olmec
Plato
Huns
1941
14. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1861
Saddam Hussein
Fidel Castro
Humanists
15. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Nazca
Pax Romana
1871
Israel
16. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
1776
cuneiform
Stock exchange
ethnic cleansing
17. The founder of Buddhism
1618
hadith
Roman Republic
Siddhartha Gautama
18. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
pictograms
Diaspora
ideograms
Byzantine Empire
19. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)
King Charles I
Emilano Zapata
1492
4th century CE
20. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
Siddhartha Gautama
Asian Tigers
Kamikaze
Khomeini
21. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo
Sahel
Black Death
Abbasid Dynasty
Bartolome de Las Casas
22. A council whose members were the heads of wealthy - landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings - in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire.
Dirty War
Yellow Turban
Roman Senate
Habsburgs
23. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
vassal
Ottomans
Socialists
Indian Civil Service
24. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Mita
Albert Einstein
732 CE
2001
25. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Berlin Conference
Charles Darwin
Nation-State
Declaration of the Rights of Man
26. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
Olmec
4th century CE
Mein Kampf
27. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
Botany Bay
1789
1956
Montezuma II
28. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hanseatic League
1948
1939
Sokoto Caliphate
29. System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds - syllables - or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt.
Benito Mussolini
Hieroglyphics
Hundred Years War
Humanism
30. 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.
Sandinistas
New Imperialism
Paterfamilias
Qing Empire
31. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Mao Zedong
Stoicism
Fransisco Pizarro
Mandate System
32. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)
Comfort girls
Empiricism
1347 CE
Western Front
33. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US
Sufi
Realpolitik
Cotton
Czar
34. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog
Jainism
Fransisco Pizarro
Cottage industry
Hellenistic Age
35. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.
House of Burgesses
Sepoy
Bourgeoisie
Tang Empire
36. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Warring States Period
Persepolis
Khomeini
World Bank
37. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil
Charlemagne
Mohandas Gandhi
Zoroastrianism
Asoka
38. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Zhou Dynasty
Gupta Empire
476 CE
39. 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
NATO
Sumer
Pearl Harbor
Bengal
40. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Sikhs
Plebeians
Asian Tigers
Sandinistas
41. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby
Mesopotamia
Protestant Reformation
Battle of Midway
Mycenae
42. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
1607
cuneiform
Faisal
1095 CE
43. 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.
Punic Wars
loess
Jesuits
Francisco Franco
44. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.
French Revolution
Socrates
Iroquois Confederacy
Industrial Revolution
45. Spanish estates that were often plantations
Solon
Hacienda
Empress Dowager Cixi
Constantinople
46. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Han
1810s
1949
Sigmund Freud
47. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
Ibn Battuta
1956
Mycenae
Babylonian Empire
48. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
Humanism
Bartholomew Dias
Neolithic
Gupta Empire
49. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Glorious Revolution
Semitic
1931
1863
50. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred
Eva Peron
1789
Solon
Alexander the Great