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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Martin Luther
Imperialism
League of Nations
Asian Tigers
2. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Sikhs
Hadith
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Ibn Khaldun
3. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
Repartimiento
Enconmienda
Gens de couleur
Taiping Rebellion
4. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
Constitutionalism
1910
Caste system
1905
5. Chinese man who led the revolution against the Manchu Dynasty.
Sun Yat-sen
1618
Crusades
Tang Empire
6. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Tanakh
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Cold War
Hoplite
7. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
Realpolitik
Huguenot
Silk Road
Steppes
8. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.
Enconmienda
Kievan Russia
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Submarine telegraph cables
9. 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.
Warring States Period
Richard Arkwright
Teotihuacan
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
10. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Republic
Quran
Kepler
Hammurabi
11. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)
Shah Abbas I
32 CE
1910
Gulag
12. 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.
1453 CE
Roman Principate
333 CE
Sikhism
13. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Bhagavad-Gita
1607
ziggurat
Rama
14. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)
1433 CE
Daoism
Samsara
Jizya
15. 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.
vassal
Mercantilism
Glorious Revolution
Sepoy Mutiny
16. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Pancho Villa
Porfirio Díaz
Enlightenment
Mita
17. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.
Peloponnesian War
Devshirme
New Imperialism
Mechanization
18. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state
loess
Catholic Reformation
Olmec
Aristotle
19. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Neo-Assyrians
Three-field system
Cyrus
Solomon's Temple
20. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
Driver
Darius I
Hacienda
Abbasid Dynasty
21. Date: WWI (from start to finish)(Hint: '19__-19__')
1914-1918
Huns
Hieroglyphics
Hernan Cortes
22. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Muslim
Colombian Exchange
Joesph Stalin
Qin
23. 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.
Stoicism
Pax Romana
Constitutional Convention
Khipu
24. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Suez Canal
Ottomans
Khmer Empire
Code of Hammurabi
25. 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).
Shogun
Girondins
Safavid Persia
Karl Marx
26. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
Creoles
Pax Mongolica
Fascism
Horse collar
27. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Charles de Gaulle
476 CE
Helsinki Accords
Sun Yat-sen
28. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Huns
Protestant Reformation
Colombian Exchange
Pancho Villa
29. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Ghana
1931
1949
Zhou
30. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Huns
Shinto
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tanakh
31. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Thomas Malthus
6th century BCE
Alexander the Great
32. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Zapata
1521
Dutch West India Company
Vasco da Gama
33. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Ziggurat
1571
Neo-Assyrians
Hittites
34. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Vedas
Protestant Reformation
Joseph Stalin
Twelve Tables
35. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Empress Dowager Cixi
Varna
Manchuria
Benito Mussolini
36. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
New Imperialism
Fourteen Points
Paterfamilias
Ibn Khaldun
37. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Jenne-Jeno
Zionism
John Locke
38. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent
Witch-hunt
221 BCE
Divine Right of Kings
Confucianism
39. Date: end of WWII
Plebeians
Kievan Russia
1945
Octavian
40. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
Bhagavad-Gita
Liu Bang
Cixi
Mecca
41. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Five Year Plans
Polis
Bengal
42. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Monasticism
Balance of power
Zen
Bartholomew Dias
43. 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
Sudetenland
Apostle Paul
1066 CE
Mahabharata
44. 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
Mandate of Heaven
Mahabharata
Bartolome de Las Casas
Mao Zedong
45. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Monophysites
Absolutism
Atlantic System
Hittites
46. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
Hundred Years War
Napoleonic Wars
Samsara
Yuan Empire
47. 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.
Zaibatsu
cuneiform
Moksha
Atahualpa
48. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Mughal Empire
Cotton
Samurai
49. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Delhi
Mansa Musa
Creole
Atahualpa
50. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Zoroastrianism
Caste system
Black Death
Witch-hunt