call on vs request

call on

verb
  • (also call upon) To request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task. 

  • To visit (a person); to pay a call to. 

  • (also call upon) To have recourse to. 

  • To correct; to point out an error or untruth. 

  • To select (a student in a classroom, etc.) to provide an answer. 

request

verb
  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

  • To ask for (something). 

noun
  • A message sent over a network to a server. 

  • Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). 

  • Condition of being sought after. 

  • A formal message requesting something. 

How often have the words call on and request occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )