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178 AP World History MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS 5. Timbuktu was renowned for its (A) gold and its role in opposing the Arab 1. Which of the following is true of the slave trade. Japanese shogunates? (B) salt reserves and Islamic scholarship. (C) large harbor. (A) Samurai were not subject to a personal (D) glass and ceramic wares. code of obedience or loyalty. (B) The merchant class dominated Japanese 6. What did Swahili and Latin have in common society during this time. during the period between 1000 and 1500? (C) Land was held by powerful lords called daimyo. (A) They were banned by conquering rulers (D) The status of women improved relative eager to impose their own languages. to what it had been during the Heian (B) They were the most widely spoken Indo- period. European languages of the period. (C) They allowed communication between 2. The Aztecs and Chinese dynasties such as the diverse populations inhabiting large Tang and the Ming resembled each other in reglOns. that they (D) They both died out in favor of vernacular languages during these years. (A) imposed tributary systems upon neigh- boring peoples. 7. What health-related crisis gravely affected (B) made extensive use of gunpowder China, the Middle East, and Europe during weaponry. the fourteenth century? (C) practiced human sacrifice on a huge scale. (A) the spread of bubonic plague (D) cultivated high-yield crops such as corn (B) ctop blights that killed wheat as well and the potato. as nce (C) the ourbreak of Spanish flu 3. What fate did Russia experience at the hands (D) the global cooling known as the Little of the Mongols? Ice Age (A) It was conquered, but only for a short 8. Which of the following was NOT a time. consequence of the Moorish occupation (B) It allied with the Mongols and joined of Spain? with them in conquering Central Asia. (C) It was bypassed by the Mongols in favor (A) The Moors brought advanced knowledge of richer lands in the Middle East. of medicine and science. (D) It was ruled by the Mongols for more (B) The Moors left behind a distinct artistic than two centuries. and architectural style. (C) The Moors persecuted Jewish scholars 4. The Hanseatic League and professionals. (D) The Moors' presence caused other (A) dominated regional commerce in the European states to develop feudal Baltic and North seas. defenses more effectively. (B) traded in diamonds and slaves. (C) was a powerful banking house in the Holy Roman Empire. (D) competed with Italy for trade in the Mediterranean. Unit Three: Review Questions 179 9. Which of the following characterized urban 12. The early Ming emperors lifein medieval Europe? (A) were culturally brilliant but politically (A) Urbanization did little to stimulate the decadent. revivalof trade. (B) surrendered control over much of their (B) City governments fought poverty by cre- territory to European powers. ating extensivewelfare systems. (C) overthrew Mongol rule and reconquered (C) Most professions were organized accord- much neighboring territory. ing to the guild system. (0) ignored naval power and the usefulness (0) The urban poor shouldered the same of overseasexploration. labor obligations asserfsin the surround- ing countryside. 13. Which of the following did the 'Maya and the Aztecs NOT have in common? (A) a religion that practiced human sacrifice (B) the architectural capability of building I, large pyramids (C) the veneration of similar deities (0) strong, centralized rule from a single cap- 'I ital 14. Which of the following is true of the Abbasid Caliphate? (A) It presided over the golden age of Islamic 10. The photo above most likely exemplifies culture. (B) It forbade Jews and Christians to practice (A) the blending of Hindu and Buddhist their own religions. architectural styles. (C) It provided skilled and firm leadership (B) palace-building aspracticed in the Incan against the European crusades. Empire. (0) It imposed sanctions on China and (C) regaldisplay on the part of aWest refused to trade with the Far East. African monarch. (0) the diffusion of Chinese architectural 15. Which of the following isan example of forms throughout Buddhist Asia. China being influenced by its neighbors, rather than the reverse? 11.Which of the following can most directly be attributed to the Crusades? (A) its openness to Buddhist missionaries from Korea (A) widespread adoption of gunpowder (B) its borrowing of the compass from weaponry throughout Eurasia Burma (B) European colonization of East African (C) its adoption of rice-paddy cultivation and Southeast Asian ports from Vietnam (C) heightened European desire to trade with (0) its adaptation ofJapanese ship design in or control parts ofAsia creating the junk (0) the accelerated easrward spread of dis- easessuch ascholera and smallpox 180 AP World History 16. A key similarity between women in medieval 20. In what way did Islamic and medieval Europe and in Heian Japan is that European philosophers think alike? (A) they could gain educations and respect (A) They attempted to reconcile reason and for their intellectual accomplishments. religious faith. (B) patriarchal discrimination barred them (B) They considered astrology to be the from any role in religious life. unfolding of the divine will. (C) they frequently ascended ro the throne, (C) They saw monarchy as an illegitimate ruling as queens and empresses. form of government. (D) medical advances kept them from dying (D) They concluded that religious belief was in childbirth as often as women else- superior to empirical observation. where did. ANSWERS 17. Which of the following is true about Islam in 1. (C) Answer A is false; samurai followed the India? code of bushido. The merchant class gained (A) Muslim women were as restricted in their more importance over time, but was never behavior as Hindu women. dominant even in later years, and the cultural (B) After violent introduction, Islam came to attainments of women, highly celebrated at coexist with Hinduism as one of the the Heian court, were not valued by the country's major faiths. shogunates. (C) Islam's influence over India faded away 2. (A) Although the Chinese invented gunpow- after the Delhi Sultanate's collapse. der, their armies were slow to adopt it, and the (D) Islam displaced Hinduism and Buddhism Aztecs knew nothing of it until the Europeans' almost completely by 1400. arrival. Answer C is true only of the Aztecs. Corn and potatoes were unknown outside the 18. One example of the Mongols' skill at cultural Americas until the voyages of Columbus. Both adaptation is civilizations exacted tribute from nearby tribes (A) promoting Christianity as a common and nations. religion to unite their subject peoples. 3. (D) The development of the Russian state (B) imitating the Europeans' expertise at under Mongol rule (the 1240s through the . horseback archery. mid-1400s), during which the city of Moscow (C) adopting Persian as a written script for rose to prominence, is one of many examples their native language. of the Mongol conquests' profound long-term (D) borrowing their law code from the impact on the history of Eurasia. Chinese. 4. (A) The Hanseatic League included cities 19. The immediate cause of Ghana's eleventh- from England, the Low Countries, the century downfall was German coast, Scandinavia, and even Russia, (A) environmental calamity. and is an excellent example of how wide-rang- (B) the Crusades. ing trade networks revived in Europe during (C) Muslim conquest. the high middle ages. It operated in northern (D) takeover by the Portuguese. Europe. Unit Three: Review Questions 181 5. (B) Today a synonym for "the middle of 10. (A) Angkor Wat in Cambodia fuses Hindu nowhere," Tirnbuktu in Mali was a thriving and Buddhist traditions. Similar syncretism center of commerce. It was landlocked, mak- can be found in India's cave temples; as with ing C incorrect. Choosing among A, B, and D most image-based questions, basic familiarity requires knowledge of what the city's chief with such styles is the key to success. commodities were, but remembering that few 11. (C) The only plausible alternative to C is B, African states actively opposed slavery elimi- which one could argue resulted in the long nates A, and remembering its fame in the term from the exploring impulse stirred up sphere of religious education points to B. partly by the Crusades. But C is more relevant 6. (C) Latin and Swahili are lingua francas, or in the short term. common languages spoken by different peo- 12. (C) Answers A and D apply to the later Ming ples living or trading in a large region. In dynasty, and B describes Qing weakness during Europe, Latin served for centuries as the lan- the 1800s. The early Ming rulers were robust guage of the educated elite, even as vernacular conquerers (and sponsored the overseas voy- languages grew in importance. Swahili (not an ages of Zheng He). Indo-European tongue) facilitated trade and communication among the diverse communi- 13. (D) As Mesoamerican civilizations influenced ties of East Mrica-and still does so. by the Olmec legacy, the Maya and the Aztecs shared many common features. The former, 7. (A) Answer C is a modern disease, one of the however, were governed by a variety of inde- twentieth century's greatest killers. The Little pendent city-states, while the Aztecs ruled Ice Age came later and did not have as direct a from Tenochtitlan. demographic impact as bubonic plague, the correct answer, which is thought to have killed 14. (A) Politically weak by the time the Crusades up to a third of the populations it struck in the began (eliminating C), the Abbasid caliphs 1300s. traded widely (making D false) and presided over cultural brilliance. Jews and Christians were 8. (C) During the medieval period, the Muslims not forced to convert to Islam (asin B), but were were more advanced than the Europeans, taxed if they did not. making A and B incorrect choices. Likewise, the Moorish threat caused states like the 15. (C) The development of wet rice cultivation Frankish kingdom to adapt militarily, as at the led to higher yields and profoundly affected Battle of Tours. Spain's Jews were treated huge parts of East and South Asia. China far more harshly by Catholic monarchs after invented the junk and the compass on its own. the Moors' expulsion than by the Moors Buddhism arrived there from India. themselves. 16. (A) Upper-class individuals such as Hildegard 9. (C) The growth of cities had everything to do von Bingen and Lady Murasaki received excel- with trade, and state-sponsored welfare is gen- lent educations and gained cultural fame. erally a modern phenomenon, making A and Women in both places could become nuns B false. Even the poorest of city people shed (though not priests). Answer C applies to serf status ("city air makes you free," as the say- Europe, but not Japan; deaths in childbirth ing went). D is untrue as well. were quite high in both. 182 AP World History 17. (B) The Delhi Sultanate converted large parts 19. (C) Long-term environmental changes weak- of India to Islam by means of violence; long ened Ghana and left it vulnerable, bur the after the sultans passed away, the religion direct cause of its downfall was Muslim inva- remained. Muslim women were not governed sion from the north. by the caste system as Hindu women were. 20. (A) Astrology was widely practiced in the 18. (D) Although a few Mongols became medieval world, but not as part of formal the- Christians, most converted to Islam or ology. Monarchy was seen as the norm in Buddhism, and they adopted Uighur, not Europe and the Middle East, and although Persian, as their written script. Their skill at religion was important to both cultures' intel- horseback warfare was their own. lectual traditions, empiricism was given its due as well. The attempt to strike a balance between reason and faith preoccupied thinkers in both worlds . • " 'II .. China, Japan, and East Asia 151 QUICK REVIEW 4. Mongol conquest had what effect on China? (A) The Mongols eradicated most traces of 1.Formany years,the Chinese enjoyed avirtual traditional Chinese culture. monopoly on the production of: (B) The Mongols carried out numerous atrocities against the Chinese population. (A) rice. (C) The Mongols shut down foreign trade (B) porcelain. along the Silk Road. (C) silk. (D) The Mongols reunited and revitalized (D) cinnamon. the Chinese state. (E) bamboo. (E) The Mongols outlawed Buddhism in 2.Which of the following isNOT favor of Islam. acknowledgedto be a Chinese invention? 5. What pandemic killed 30 to 40 million of (A) gunpowder Yuan China's population and then traveled (B) the stirrup westward to the Middle East and Europe? (C) the compass (A) bubonic plague (D) chain-driven machinery (B) cholera (E) none of the above (C) leprosy 3.Which of the following istrue about Chinese (D) tuberculosis women in the period between 1000 and (E) Spanish flu 1400 C.E.? 6. The early Ming emperors I. Women of the lower classestended to be (A) were culturally brilliant but politically freerfrom restrictions than those of the decadent. upper classes. (B) lost much of China's territory to its II. Neo-Confucianism reinforced the neighbors. secondary status ofwomen in Chinese (C) were dynamic conquerors. society. (D) ignored naval power and exploration. III. Although women were generally subordi- (E) neglected art and culture in favor of nate to men, severalof them ruled China warfare. in their own right. IV The binding ofwomen's feet was 7. Which of the following isNOT true of practiced more widely. Japan's Heian period? (A) I only (A) Under a figurehead emperor, the (B) III only Fujiwara clan controlled governmental (C) II and III affairs. (D) I, II, and III (B) The warrior ethos of the Heian court (E) I, II, and IV gavearistocratic women few opportuni- ties to exert their influence. (C) During the later Heian period, Japanese culture became lessdependent on Chinese influence. (D) Lady Murasaki's famous novel, The TaLe of Genji, was written during this time. (E) It came to an end as the result of the Taira-Minamoto war. 152 AP World History 8. When the first shoguns ruled Japan, less likely to obey all the dictates of Nee-Con- fucianism, and female labor was too valuable (A) real power rested with the emperor. for the lower classes to afford the "luxury" of (B) political authority was in the hands of foot binding. Buddhist monks. (C) the emperor's power was symbolic. 4. (D) Under Kublai Khan, the Mongol leader- (D) the shoguns served as Shinto priests. ship adapted itself to Chinese culture and estab- (E) none of the above lished the Yuan state. Kublai Khan presided over expansion, unification, cultural develop- 9. Which of the following is true of Zen ment, and economic growth. Buddhism? 5. (A) Best known in the West as the Black Death (A) It originated in Japan, then traveled to that struck Europe in the 1340s, the four- Korea and China. teenth-century wave of bubonic plague-one (B) It had comparatively little impact on of history's greatest medical disasters-origi- Japan. nated in China, caused great devastation there, (C) It displaced the Shinto religion. and did the same in the Middle East. (D) It became popular among the samurai of Japan. 6. (C) While the later Ming emperors became (E) Its emphasis on heavenly afterlife decadent, rulers like Hongwu and Yongle appealed to lower classes. actively and successfully expanded Ming power by means of military might and sponsored 10. Rice-paddy cultivation wide-ranging naval expeditions, such as the (A) is extremely labor-intensive. voyages of Zheng He. They were also great cul- (B) probably originated in Vietnam. tural patrons, and the Ming Dynasty is (C) led to increased crop yields. renowned for artistic and cultural brilliance. (D) all of the above 7. (B) The highly refined Heian court was domi- (E) none of the above nated by the Fujiwara clan. Art, culture, and court ritual were very important, and women enjoyed a comparatively high degree of status. Answers China's influence over Japanese culture never ended, bur it lessened considerably. 1. (C) One of China's most profitable commodi- ties was silk, the production of which is 8. (C) The shogun was a military leader, one of extremely complicated. The Chinese jealously whose duries was to protect the emperor (who guarded this secret for centuries. remained symbolically important). As the Fuji- wara clan had done during the Heian period, 2. (B) The stirrup is thought to have originated the shoguns dominated the emperors and used in Central Asia. The other inventions are asso- them as figureheads to legitimate their own ciated with Song China, whose scientists and authority. engineers were extremely skilled. The Chinese may have invented block printing, but this is 9. (D) Originating as Chan Buddhism in China, not certain (some credit the Koreans). Zen spread to Japan. Its austerity and simplicity resonated with the samurai warrior. 3. (E) Only one woman (Wu Zhao) governed China in her own right, Neo-Confucianisrn 10. (D) One of Asia's most important agricultural encouraged the subordination of women, and practices, rice-paddy (or wet) cultivation proba- foot binding (thought to keep women's feet bly arose in Vietnam and spread throughout "dainty" and "ladylike") began to catch on Southeast and East Asia. Though it requires during these years. Lower-class families were great effort, it greatly boosts crop production. Islam in the Middle East and Africa 141 QUICK REVIEW 5. Timbuktu was renowned for its (A) gold and its role in opposing the slave 1.Achiefcharacteristic of Islamic states from trade. 1000 to 1400 was (B) salt reservesand Islamic scholarship. (C) large harbor. (A) political unity. (D) glassand ceramic architecture. (B) the consolidation of democracy. (E) many Gothic churches. (C) political chaos. (D) steady strengthening of political power. 6. The Turkish military campaigns (E) the weakening ofTurkish control over Islamiclands. (A) crippled the Holy Roman Empire. (B) crushed the Mongols. 2.Which of the following is true of the Abbasid (C) introduced Islam to the Middle East. Caliphate? (D) weakened the Byzantine Empire. (E) none of the above (A) It presided over the golden ageof Islamic culture. 7. The cavalrywarriors who went on to establish (B) It heavilypersecuted Jews and Christians. their own state in Egypt in the 1200s were (C) It provided firm leadership when European crusaders invaded. (A) the Ottomans. (0) Itforbadecommercialrelationswith China. (B) the Mongols. (E) It established a separate Muslim state in (C) the Mamluks. the western Sahara. (D) the Seljuks. (E) the Berbers. 3.Which of the following places in Africa remainedChristian despite the spread of 8. Which of the following contributed to the Islamon the continent? military success of the Ottomans? (A)Marrakesh (A) They practiced guerrilla warfare. (B)Swahilicity-states (B) They had a fleet of oceangoing sailing (C)Mali ships. (0) Ethiopia (C) They allied effectivelywith the (E)Tunisia Mongols. (D) They ceased relying on cavalry troops. 4.Atterthe mid-1200s, Mali (E) They had well-made gunpowder weaponry. I. wassoon conquered byArabs, who installed an administration that was controlled from Turkey. II. stopped acting asa trade center. III. becamea key trade center and controlled amajor communications network. IV.wasled by Christians. (A)III only (B)N only (C)I, II, and III (D) III, and IV (E)I and II only 142 AP World History 9. In what way were philosophers in medieval 3. (D) This is a matter of factual knowledge. Europe and the Islamic world similar? Egyptian Copts also remained Christian. (A) They both believed in Christianity. 4. (A) From 1250, when Sundiata established (B) They both studied the relationship his state there, until the 1400s, Mali was one between reason and faith. of the greatest and wealthiest kingdoms in (C) They both introduced astrology into Sub-Saharan Mrica. Although Islamic, it was their studies of metaphysics. not controlled byTurks or Arabs. (D) They were both persecuted by their 5. (B) The great commercial center of Mali, rulers. Timbuktu shipped salt all along the Niger (E) They were required to be members of River trade route. It was also a renowned the clergy. center of Islamic learning. 10.Why did Islamic art during this period 6. (D) Of the military outcomes described, only usually feature geometric patterns and shapes the crippling of the Byzantine Empire can be rather than depictions of living things? attributed to the Turks. The Seljuks started Byzantium's decline by defeating it at the (A) The Qur' an forbids the worship of Battle of Manzikert (1071). graven Images. (B) Depiction of living beings was not seen 7. (C) Brought to the Middle East to serve in asfashionable. Arab armies, the Mamluks gained control of (C) Artists were not yet properly skilled to Egypt in the 1200s. In 1260, they halted the draw human figures. Mongol advance into the Middle East. (D) Geometric shapes were seen to be more S. (E) Advanced technology and metallurgical godlike. skill enabled the Ottomans to equip them- (E) none of the above selves with state-of-the-art gunpowder weaponry-including the artillery they used to capture Constantinople in 1453. Answers 9. (B) The question of how intellect and logic 1. (C) The. Islamic world stayed politically could be reconciled with religious beliefpreoc- united only until the 900s C.E. The Abbasid cupied thinkers in the Islamic world, asit did Caliphate gradually disintegrated until its the European Scholastics. destruction in 125S. Only in the 1400s did the Ottoman Empire reunify the Middle East. 10. (A) Although, in practice, the depiction of living beings was not absolutely prohibited, it 2. (A) The Abbasid Caliphate weakened politi- was discouraged because the Qur'an (like the cally after 900, when various parts of the Bible's Ten Commandments) frowns on the Islamic Empire broke away and achieved artistic depiction of animals and humans as autonomy. Abbasid resistance to the Crusades objects of worship. were ineffective. Political difficulties aside, the Abbasid erawasaculturally advanced one, and Muslim authorities tended not to treat nonbe- lievers with viole'nce (although they did tax those who did not convert). South and Southeast Asia 157 island,the population would grow to such apoint that part of the tribe (sometimes allof it) would have to move onward to keep from depleting all the resources. The firstwaveof migration took the Polynesians to the island chain of Microne- sia,east of the Philippines. Then, around 2000 to 1300 B.C.E., some Polynesians movedto Melanesia, east of New Guinea and Australia and including Fiji. Another major wave of migration took the Polynesians to the oceanic expanse thatnow bears the name Polynesia. Polynesia isbounded by an imaginary triangle, withHawaii at the north, New Zealand to the southwest, and Easter Island to the southeast.By300 to 400 C.E., Polynesians had settled Easter Island, building their famousstatues of human heads. By the 1500s, environmental stress and tribal war destroyedthe Easter Island civilization. More successful was Polynesian settlement ofNew Zealand, where the Maori culture, established around 800 C.E., survived andprospered. A warrior society, the Maori became the largest single Polynesian subcultureby the 1700s. QUICK REVIEW 4. Indian Ocean trade tied together all of the following areas directly EXCEPT 1.Until the modern era, India (A) East Africa. (A) enjoyed relative political unity. (B) the Arabian Peninsula. (B) was not often united into a single state. (C) the Persian Gulf (C) experienced cultural homogeneity. (D) Russia. (D) was dominated by a single religion. (E) India. (E) washighly urbanized. 5. Southeast Asian states 2.Over two hundred years, between the 1000s I. included the Khmer and Srivijayan and 1200s, the seizedparts of empIres. northern India. II. adopted Hinduism or Buddhism or (A) Muslims sometimes both. (B) British III. traded spices for silk from China. (C) Mongolians IV took part in Indian Ocean trade. (D) Chinese (A) I, II, and III (E) Pakistanis (B) II and IV only (C) III and IV only 3. Forcenturies, the northern sections of India (D) III only werepopulated by and the (E) all of the above southern parts by _ (A) peoples of Dravidian ancestry, 6. Angkor rulers of Cambodia Indo-Europeans (A) were not motivated to expand their (B) Pakistanis, Africans borders. (C) Tibetans, Chinese (B) focused on internal economic (D) the British, the French development. (E) Indo-Europeans, peoples of Dravidian (C) were militarily aggressive. ancestry (D) encouraged the spread of Christianity. (E) ruled well into the nineteenth century.

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