AP World Final Study Guide

What is considered the greatest Byzantine architectural monument?

The Hagia Sophia.

How far north did Muslim raiders advance into France during the Middle Ages?

As far north as Tours.

From which country did the Vikings form kingdoms along the rivers of Eastern Europe and Russia?

Sweden, or Scandinavia.

What was The Mongol way of life called?

Nomadic pastoralism.

The Ottomans captured which important Christian city of the Byzantine Empire in 1453?

Constantinople.

Who was the admiral who led a series of state voyages on behalf of the Ming Empire?

Zheng He.

Before the Europeans arrived, what was the largest and most powerful Andean empire?

The Inca Empire.

Where did the Renaissance begin?

Italy.

Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

Geoffrey Chaucer.

Who invented the printing press?

Johannes Gutenberg.

The Vikings were the greatest mariners of which body of water in the Early Middle Ages?

The North Atlantic Ocean.

Who employed Christopher Columbus?

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.

The 1494 Treaty of ____ divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.

Tordesillas.

Which Aztec emperor first encountered Cortés?

Moctezuma II.

Which king broke with the Catholic church because it would not grant him a divorce?

King Henry VIII.

Who replaced the monarch after the king was executed during the English Civil War?

Oliver Cromwell.

What epidemic was the deadliest in the Americas?

Smallpox

Where was the richest silver deposit in the Americas?

Potosí, in present-day Bolivia.

What trade good from the European market encouraged further French settlement in modern-day Canada?

Fur.

Who was the majority of African slaves sold into the Islamic world?

West Africans, women.

Who was the Ottomans' chief rival in Iran?

The Safavid Empire.

Which term came to refer to the rulers of the Muscovy principality based in Moscow beginning in the sixteenth century?

Tsar.

Which empire replaced the Ming Empire of China?

The Qing Empire.

In Europe's cool and humid regions, what new crop brought from the Americas contributed greatly to the agricultural revolution?

Potatoes.

What did James Watts invent that greatly influenced the Industrial Revolution?

The steam engine.

Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?

Adam Smith.

Which 1770 event radicalized public opinion throughout the American colonies?

The Boston Massacre.

Who was the king of France at the start of the French Revolution?

King Louis XVI.

Napoleon's plans for European conquest were held in check by the naval supremacy of?

Great Britain.

What did Britain introduce to China to force them to open up trading ports?

Opium.

What helped the British military during the Opium Wars?

Superior naval technology.

Who created the Zulu kingdom?

Shaka Zulu.

What gathering led to the division of Africa among colonial powers?

The Berlin Conference.

Which country did Ethiopia defeat at Adowa in 1896?

Italy.

Who demanded that Japan open its ports for refueling and trade with American shipping?

Commodore Matthew Perry.

Which country's growing industrial and military might led to increased tensions in Europe?

Germany.

The Turks closed what important strait between the Mediterranean and Black Seas?

The Bosporus and Dardanelles Strait.

Who was considered a part of Hitler's 'master race'?

Aryans.

Which British prime minister practiced the policy of appeasement?

Neville Chamberlain.

What was the German word for 'lightning war'?

Blitzkrieg.

The Germans were unable to overcome the British use of radar and codebreaking in the Battle of Britain, which was conducted primarily by ____?

The Royal Air Force.

Where did Japan bomb the United States fleet on December 7, 1941?

Pearl Harbor.

During the Battle of Midway, the United States sank most of Japan's largest?

Aircraft carriers.

What major Allied attack on Germany occurred on June 6, 1944?

D-Day, or the Normandy Invasion.

What country suffered the most deaths in World War II?

The Soviet Union.

What word or phrase created by Winston Churchill became common during the Cold War?

Iron Curtain.

What agreement did countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union come to during the Cold War?

The Warsaw Pact.

In what year did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon?

1969.

For many years, what country sought to limit parents to a single child?

China.

Which of the following wars ended with a truce but no formal peace treaty?

The Korean War.