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AP World Modern Chronology 2020

Total questions: 93

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Mansa Must rules Mali

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

2.

Invention of steam engine

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

3.

Genghis Khan leads Mongols to take over much of Eurasia

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

4.

French Revolution

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

5.

Hobbes and Locke discuss human nature and the best type of government

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

6.

Haitian Independence

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

7.

Zheng He demands tribute for China in the Indian Ocean Basin

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

8.

Declaration of Independence - a message to Britain and a template for other colonies around the world

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

9.

Britain establishes first North American colony in Jamestown

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

10.

Spanish create the encomienda system to deal with the Amerindians

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

11.

Put the following events in chronological order:

A. American Revolution

B. Enlightenment

C. Jamaica Letter

a)

A - B - C

b)

B - C - A

c)

C - B- A

d)

B - A- C

12.

Ottomans under Mehmet the Conqueror take Constantinople

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

13.

Put the following events in chronological order:

A. Sepoy Mutiny

B. Battle of Plassey

C. Formation of Indian National Congress (INC)

a)

A - B- C

b)

B - A- C

c)

C - B- A

d)

B - C- A

14.

Martin Luther starts the Protestant Reformation with his 95 Theses

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

15.

The Bubonic Plague reaches the city-states of Italy

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

16.

The Irish Potato Famine results in a large migration to North America

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

17.

End of serfdom in Russia

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

18.

Slavery is abolished in the United States

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

19.

Fascism rises in countries like Germany and Italy response to economic crises

a)

1200-1450

b)

1450-1750

c)

1750-1900

d)

1900-2020

20.
Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
21.
World War 1
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
22.

Tiananmen Square

a)

600 - 1450

b)

1450 - 1750

c)

1750 - 1900

d)

1900 - Present

23.
World War II
a)
600 CE - 1450 CE
b)
1450 CE - 1750 CE
c)
1750 CE - 1900 CE
d)
1900 CE - Present
24.
Treaty of Versailles
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450- 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
25.
Birth of Israel
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
26.
German blitzkrieg in Polland
a)
1450 - 1750
b)
1750 - 1900
c)
1900 - Present
d)
600 - 1450
27.
Pizarro topples the Inca
a)
8000 BCE - 600 CE
b)
600 - 1450
c)
1450 - 1750
d)
1750 - Present
28.
Founding of Islam
a)
8000 CE - 600 CE
b)
600 - 1450
c)
1450 - 1750
d)
1750 - 1900
29.
Berlin Conference
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
30.
German Unification
a)
600 - 1450 
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900- Present
31.
Congress of Vienna
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
32.
Yuan Dynasty in China
a)
8000 BCE - 600 CE
b)
600 - 1450
c)
1450 - 1750
d)
1750 - 1900
33.
1st Opium War in China
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900- Present
34.
Sepoy Mutiny
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
35.
Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
36.
Suez Canal Opens
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
37.
Travels of Ibn Battuta
a)
8000 BCE - 600 CE
b)
600 - 1450
c)
1450 - 1750
d)
1750 - 1900
38.
NATO founded
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
39.
Spanish-American War
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
40.
Marco Polo's travels
a)
1750 - 1900
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
600 - 1450
d)
1900 - Present
41.
Qing Dynasty (Beginning)
a)
8000 BCE - 600 CE
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
600 - 1450
d)
1750 - 1900
42.
Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate
a)
600 - 1450
b)
8000 BCE - 600 CE
c)
1450 - 1750
d)
1750 - 1900
43.
British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900- Present
44.
Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
45.
Berlin Wall
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
46.
Salt March (Gandhi)
a)
8000 BCE - 600 CE
b)
1900- Present
c)
1450 - 1750
d)
1750 - 1900
47.
Korean War
a)
1450 - 1750
b)
1900- Present
c)
1700 - 1900
d)
600 - 1450
48.
USSR disbands
a)
1750 - 1900
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1900 - Present
d)
600 - 1475
49.
Columbus/Reconquista of Spain
a)
8000 BCE - 600 CE
b)
1750 - 1900
c)
1450 - 1750
d)
600 - 1450
50.
EU formed
a)
1750 - 1900
b)
1900 - Present
c)
1450 - 1750
d)
600 - 1450
51.
Chinese Communist Revolution
a)
1750 - 1900
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1900 - Present
d)
600 - 1450
52.
Truman Doctrine
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
53.
Independence in Latin America
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
54.
Printing press in Europe
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
55.
Tanzimat Reforms
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
56.
Mexican Revolution
a)
1750 - 1900
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1900 - Present
d)
600 - 1540
57.
Commodore Perry "opens" Japan
a)
8000 BCE - 600 CE
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
58.
Cuban Missile Crisis
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 0 1900
d)
1900 - Present
59.
Panama Canal Opened
a)
600 - 1450
b)
1450 - 1750
c)
1750 - 1900
d)
1900 - Present
60.

Which came first?

a)

Factory Act

b)

Invention of steam engine

c)

Enclosure movement

d)

Invention of spinning jenny

61.

Which came first?

a)

End of serfdom in all of Europe

b)

End of slavery in the Latin America

c)

End of slavery in North America

d)

End of mita system

62.

Which came first?

a)

Mexican Revolution with Hidalgo & Morelos

b)

American Revolution

c)

French Revolution

d)

Haitian Revolution

63.

Which of the following would NOT be supporting evidence for an essay on nationalism in the 19th century?

a)

American Revolution

b)

Latin American Revolutions

c)

Sepoy Mutiny

d)

Unification of Germany and Italy

64.

Which of the following would NOT be used as supporting evidence for an essay dealing with conservatism in the 19th century?

a)

Congress of Vienna

b)

Tanzimat reforms

c)

Otto von Bismarck

d)

Caudillos in Latin America

65.

What is the correct chronological order of events that created the intellectual development of modern Europe?

A. Scientific Revolution

B. Enlightenment

C. Protestant Reformation

D. Renaissance

a)

A- B- C - D

b)

B - A - C - D

c)

C - D- B- A

d)

D - C - A - B

66.

Which of the following would NOT be used as evidence for an essay about resistance to European imperialism from 1850 to 2000?

a)

Battle of Adowa in Ethiopia

b)

Mau Mau Revolt

c)

Sepoy Mutiny

d)

Anti-apartheid movement

67.

Which of these 20th century events does NOT support a thesis dealing with hot spots in the Cold War?

a)

Prague Spring

b)

Berlin Blockade

c)

Korean War

d)

Cuban Missile Crisis

e)

Partition of India

68.

Which was NOT an interregional trade route from 1200-1450?

a)

Trans-Saharan routes

b)

Indian Ocean Basin

c)

Silk Roads

d)

Trans-Atlantic routes

69.

Which of the following do NOT apply to the Inca in the 15th century?

a)

chinampas

b)

chasquis

c)

mita

d)

quipu

70.

Which of the following is an example of monumental art & architecture NOT built during the 1450-1750 period?

a)

Isfahan

b)

Constantinople

c)

Versailles

d)

Taj Mahal

71.

Which of the following indigenous groups did NOT experience a decline due to European interaction in the 1450-1750 period?

a)

Aborigines

b)

Aztecs

c)

Kongo

d)

Inca

72.

In an essay about the effects of the Columbian Exchange, the following events are in your historical context. Put them in chronological order.

A. Fall of Constantinople

B. Reconquista

C. Crusades

D. Henry the Navigator's school

E. Marco Polo

a)

C - E - B - D - A

b)

C - E - A - D- B

c)

B - C - E - A - D

d)

A - B - C - D - E

73.

In understanding the evolution of Russia's history, put the following events in chronological order.

A. Industrialization under Sergei Witte

B. Catherine the Great the not-so Enlightened ruler

C. Peter the Great

D. Russian Revolution

E. The Mongols aka Golden Horde

a)

E - B- C- D - A

b)

C - B - E- A - D

c)

C - B - A - D- E

d)

E - C - B - A - D

74.

In China's history from 1200-1900, place the dynasties in the correct chronological order.

A. Qing

B. Ming

C. Yuan

D. Song

a)

A - B- C -D

b)

B- C- A- D

c)

C - A- B- D

d)

D -C- B -A

75.

In understanding the evolution of Japanese history from 1600 to 2020, put the following events in chronological order.

A. Meiji Restoration

B. Tokugawa Shogunate institutes edict closing Japan

C. Hiroshima & Nagasaki are bombed

D. Creation of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

E. Commodore Perry opens Japan

a)

B - E - A - D- C

b)

A - C- D- E- B

c)

C - A- B- D- E

d)

D - E- A- B- C

76.

Caravanserai, magnetic compass, rudder, junk, paper money, banking houses, bills of exchanged the Hanseatic League were all in place to encourage regional trade before (pick the earliest option)

a)

14th century

b)

16th century

c)

18th century

d)

20th century

77.

In what century did Portugal become the first European country to establish an all-water route to Asia?

a)

14th century

b)

15th century

c)

16th century

d)

17th century

78.

Major cities of empires and regional trade in the 13th century included all of the followingEXCEPT

a)

Timbuktu

b)

Constantinople

c)

Cuzco

d)

Cordoba

79.

19th century reform movements include all of the following EXCEPT

a)

abolitionism

b)

Tanzimat

c)

100 Days'

d)

New Deal

80.

Empires that came to an end in the first half of the 20th century include all of the following EXCEPT

a)

Austro-Hungarian

b)

Ottoman

c)

Mughal

d)

Russian

81.

Which of the following absolute monarchs in the 1450-1750 period did NOT use policies of religious tolerance to rule their empires?

a)

Akbar

b)

Louis XIV

c)

Suleiman the Magnificent

d)

Peter the Great

82.

Battle of Dien Bien Phu/Vietnamese Independence

a)

1945

b)

1954

c)

1963

d)

1975

83.

Eastern European satellites break away from USSR/Berlin Wall falls

a)

1968

b)

1984

c)

1989

d)

1991

84.

Which did NOT happen in the interwar years of the 20th century?

a)

Rise of Mussolini

b)

Great Depression

c)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

d)

Holocaust

85.

Put the events of the early 20th century in chronological order.

A. Mexican Revolution

B. Chinese Revolution

C. Bloody Sunday

D. Boxer Rebellion

a)

A - B - C- D

b)

D - C- A -B

c)

D - A -B -C

d)

D - B - A -C

86.

Put the following decolonization/independence movements in chronological order.

A. Kenya

B. Algeria

C. India

D. Ghana

a)

C - A- B- D

b)

A - C- B- D

c)

B - A- C- D

d)

C -D - B - A

87.

Put the following economic systems in chronological order (in the order they developed).

A. Communism

B. Mercantilism

C. Socialism

D. Capitalism

a)

B - D - C- A

b)

B - C- D- A

c)

D - B -C -A

d)

A - C- D- B

88.

Put the countries in the correct chronological order in which they industrialized.

A. Russia

B. Japan

C. United States

D. Britain

a)

D - C- B -A

b)

A - B- C -D

c)

D - B - C- A

d)

C - D- A- B

89.

Economic liberalization occurred BOTH in the PRC and USSR during this decade.

a)

1950s

b)

1960s

c)

1970s

d)

1980s

90.

China became communist AND the USSR tested its first atomic bomb in this year.

a)

1945

b)

1949

c)

1955

d)

1959

91.

The British East India first got involved in India in this century.

a)

16th century

b)

17th century

c)

18th century

d)

19th century

92.

The Amritsar Massacre in this year was significant because it brought together the various religions of India to unite against the British.

a)

1900

b)

1914

c)

1919

d)

1939

93.

In what order did the following areas get colonized/imperialized by Europeans?

A. Asia

B. North America

C. Africa

D. Latin America

a)

B - D- A- C

b)

A - D- B- C

c)

D - B- A- C

d)

C - B - D- A