APWH Badge Quiz

Place the following historical development in chronological order from earliest to latest.

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Answer explanation

The Abbasid Caliphate was in power from c. 750 C.E. While it declined earlier, it was officially ended by Mongol invasions around 1258.

The Great Schism, or split in the Roman and Eastern churches occurred in 1054.

The Mongols came to rule Eurasia in 1206 and remained the power structure into the 14th century with varying degrees of power in the remaining khanates.

The Black Death ravages Afro-Eurasia beginning in 1346.

The Protestant Reformation began with Martin Luther 95 Theses in 1517.

Place the following 20th century events in chronological order from earliest to most recent.

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Answer explanation

WWI begin with Franz Ferdinand assassination in 1914.

The war ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

The Great Depression began in 1929 with the U.S. Stock Market Crash.

Hitler invaded Poland a decade later in 1939, beginning WWII.

The war ended with Japan's surrender in 1945 following the dropping of Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Place the following Cold War Era events in chronological order from earlier to most recent.

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Answer explanation

Korean War: 1950-1953

Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962

Iranian Revolution: 1979

Fall of the Berlin Wall: 1989

Collapse of the Soviet Union: 1991

Place the following in a chronological AND cause-effect relationship.

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Organize these options into the right categories

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(a) American Revolution

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(b) French Revolution

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(c) Haitian Revolution

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(d) Latin American Revolutions

• overthrew Spanish colonial power

• Maximillian Robspierre

• Reign of Terror

• overthrew & executed monarch

• Jamaican Letter

• Jean-Jacques Dessalines

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

• Three Estates

• Thomas Jefferson

• Tennis Court Oath

• overthrew British

• Simon Bolivar

• Toussant Louverture

• Continental Congress

• Emperor Napoleon

• José de San Martin

• 1st successful slave revolt

• overthrew French colonial power

• No Taxation without Representation

Click on the general location for the Empires of Mali, Ghana, and Songhai.

Click on the region of the locations of Mombasa, Mogadishu, and Kilwa.

Place the gunpowder empires in the correct regional location.

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Songhai Empire

Ottoman Empire

Mughal Empire

Safavid Persia

Reorder the following women's suffrage movements in chronological order from earliest to most recent.

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Answer explanation

1917: Russia

1920: U.S.

1932-34: Brazil

1950: India

1953: China

Drop the European colonial powers into there GENERAL regions of control in the Americas post 1492.

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