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AP World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order and establish a plan for a new balance of power after the defeat of Napoleon.
Consul
Congress of Vienna
1911
Roman Senate
2. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Ghana
Franz Ferdinand
Durbar
Teotihuacan
3. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Syncretism
Mycenae
Medieval
Shang
4. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
Augustus
OPEC
Monsoon
Monasticism
5. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
1488
Little Ice Age
1994
The Mahdi
6. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
Bourgeoisie
Mandate of Heaven
Martin Luther
NATO
7. 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.
Jenne-jeno
City state
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Gunpowder
8. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Sun Yat-sen
Humanism
Zhou
Treaty of Versailles
9. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Artha-sastra
Manchuria
Shi'a
Enclosure Movement
10. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)
ideograms
Hundred Years War
Assimilation
Atlantic System
11. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.
Afrikaners
1054 CE
Emilio Aguinaldo
1929
12. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Caliphate
Guomindang
Bartholomew Dias
Napoleonic Wars
13. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
Kepler
1919
Chiang Kai-Shek
Fertile Crescent
14. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
Medina
Postmodernism
legalism
Junk
15. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches
Bolshevik
1815
Protestant Reformation
1991
16. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
333 CE
Paleolithic
Guild
Auschwitz
17. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Plato
Bantu
ideograms
1521
18. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Acropolis
1453 CE
Repartimiento
Peloponnesian War
19. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Ottomans
Yin and yang
Sasanid Empire
1863
20. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.
Jamestown
1571
Huns
Forbidden City
21. 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.
Totalitarianism
European Community
Napoleon Bonaparte
Atlantic System
22. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Keiretsu
Ulama
Akhenaten
Carthage
23. A French Protestant
Benito Mussolini
Diffusion
Opium Wars
Huguenot
24. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
European Community
assimilation
Champa Rice
Socialists
25. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Imperialism
Jesus
Marco Polo
Islam
26. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
1898
Sikhism
liberalism
Hanseatic League
27. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
legalism
Economic sanctions
Marie Curie
Junk
28. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Cossaks
Fransisco Pizarro
King Charles I
Repartimiento
29. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
Khmer Empire
Medieval
Mughal Empire
Kamikaze
30. 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
1517
Sudetenland
Zoroastrianism
Abbasid Dynasty
31. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
1954
220 CE
Modernization
Hieroglyphics
32. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
Rajputs
Code of Hammurabi
1804
Lama
33. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Juan Peron
Janapadas
Keiretsu
Italian Renaissance
34. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Laissez faire
Protestant Reformation
Caste system
Mestizo
35. Date: Alexander the Great dies(Hint: '_23 BCE')
Devshirme
Enconmienda
323 BCE
Mechanization
36. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)
United Nations
Pax Romana
Indian Civil Service
assimilation
37. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Ming
Shakespeare
Trireme
St. Augustine
38. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Zapata
Benito Mussolini
Khmer Empire
Extraterritoriality
39. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A
527 CE
1095 CE
Humanism
Diffusion
40. Date: end of WWII
Pax Mongolica
Gold Coast
Western Front
1945
41. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Persia
Mesopotamia
Indian Ocean
Isfahan
42. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.
Golden Horde
Jesus
Zhou
Zoroaster
43. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.
Constantine
deforestation
Panama Canal
Joseph Stalin
44. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.
Paleolithic
Samurai
Max Planck
Yellow River
45. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.
African National Congress
Taiping Rebellion
Conquistadors
Mandate of Heaven
46. 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.
Jacobins
Extraterritoriality
Guomindang
Fertile Crescent
47. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
Punic Wars
Steam engine
Sikhism
1325 CE
48. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism
Warsaw Pact
1756
Huguenot
Hundred Years War
49. 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.
Persepolis
Capitalism
Papyrus
Qin
50. Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Cotton
Stoicism
Dutch West India Company
Opium Wars