AP World History Review Jeopardy

This river valley civilization, centered in modern Iraq, developed cuneiform writing.

What is Mesopotamia?

This ancient law code, carved on a stele, was issued by a Babylonian king and prescribed strict measure-for-measure penalties.

What is the Code of Hammurabi?

This Bronze Age civilization on Crete, named for a legendary king, built the palace complex at Knossos.

What is the Minoan civilization?

This ancient Chinese dynasty, the first to unify China under a single emperor, standardized writing and currency and began the Great Wall.

What is the Qin dynasty?

This Mesoamerican civilization developed a base-twenty number system with the concept of zero and built stepped pyramids in the Yucatan.

What is the Maya civilization?

This network of overland routes connected China to the Mediterranean, carrying silk, spices, and ideas.

What is the Silk Road?

This Indian Ocean wind pattern, which reverses direction seasonally, allowed sailors to time voyages across the Arabian Sea.

What are the monsoon winds?

This West African empire grew wealthy controlling the trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt at cities like Timbuktu.

What is the Mali Empire?

This coastal network of city-states along East Africa, including Kilwa and Mombasa, blended Bantu and Arab cultures through Indian Ocean trade.

What is the Swahili Coast?

This deadly disease, believed to have spread along Mongol-controlled trade routes in the 1300s, killed roughly a third of Europe's population.

What is the Black Death?

This dynasty ruled China for nearly three centuries after the Mongol Yuan, known for the Forbidden City and naval voyages under Zheng He.

What is the Ming dynasty?

This Muslim empire, centered on Istanbul after 1453, controlled much of the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans for centuries.

What is the Ottoman Empire?

This South Asian empire, founded by a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan, built the Taj Mahal under Shah Jahan.

What is the Mughal Empire?

This Andean empire, centered at Cusco, administered its territory with an extensive road network and knotted-cord records called quipu.

What is the Inca Empire?

This Persian dynasty, established by Shah Ismail, made Twelver Shia Islam the state religion of Iran in the sixteenth century.

What is the Safavid dynasty?

This 1789 uprising overthrew the French monarchy and issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

What is the French Revolution?

This 1791 uprising of enslaved people in a French Caribbean colony led to the founding of Haiti.

What is the Haitian Revolution?

This political philosophy, championed by thinkers like Locke and Rousseau, stressed natural rights and government by consent.

What is Enlightenment thought?

Led by Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin, this wave of early nineteenth-century uprisings freed much of South America from Spanish rule.

What are the Latin American independence movements?

This 1848 wave of uprisings swept across the German states, France, the Austrian Empire, and Italy, demanding liberal and nationalist reforms.

What are the Revolutions of 1848?

First developed in Britain in the late 1700s, this shift from hand production to machine manufacturing transformed the global economy.

What is the Industrial Revolution?

This 1884-85 conference in Germany's capital saw European powers divide African territory among themselves with little African input.

What is the Berlin Conference?

This mid-1800s conflict forced China to open ports to British trade and cede Hong Kong after Britain fought to protect its opium trade.

What is the First Opium War?

This 1857 uprising against the British East India Company began among Indian soldiers and led to direct British crown rule over India.

What is the Indian Rebellion of 1857?

This economic theory holds that colonies existed to supply raw materials to and buy finished goods from the mother country.

What is mercantilism?

This 1914-1918 conflict, triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, drew in empires across the globe.

What is World War I?

This 1917 upheaval overthrew the Russian tsar and eventually brought the Bolsheviks under Lenin to power.

What is the Russian Revolution?

This 1929 economic collapse, beginning with a stock market crash in the United States, spread into a worldwide depression.

What is the Great Depression?

This 1947 partition, ending British colonial rule, created two independent nations on the Indian subcontinent amid mass displacement and violence.

What is the Partition of India?

This decades-long global standoff between the United States and Soviet Union never erupted into direct war between the two superpowers.

What is the Cold War?