Transcript AP World History Review Multiple Choice Questions by Period

AP World History
Review Multiple Choice Questions by
Period
Period One and Two
8000 BCE – 600 CE
Which of the following was not true of nomadic
groups?
A) Nomadic societies were patriarchal
B) Most of the themes of nomadic art
centered on their animals
C) Nomadic societies had little positive
influence on settled peoples
D) Nomadic societies engaged in peaceful
trade.
Answer: D
What happened in western Europe after the fall of the
Roman Empire was similar to what occurred in
a)
b)
c)
d)
Byzantium after the end of the Eastern Empire
China after the fall of the Han
Japan after the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate
The Andes when the Spanish ousted the Inca
Answer: B
Which of the following statements is an accurate
description of both Buddhism and Hinduism?
a) The caste system was an outgrowth of Hinduism
but became identified also with Buddhism.
b) Neither religion placed importance on the
individual’s efforts to seek release from rebirth.
c) Nirvana was a major aspect of the belief system of
both Buddhism and Hinduism.
d) Both religions taught the importance of karma in
affecting a person’s fate.
Answer: D
Monasticism was an important aspect of which
two of the following religions?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Buddhism and Christianity
Daoism and Shintoism
Hinduism and Buddhism
Christianity and Hinduism
Answer: A
Which of the following was not a characteristic of early
settled agricultural communities?
a) A fertility goddess as an important element in
religious worship
b) The division of labor and the development of
specialized skills
c) Cooperative public works projects
d) Equal status for men and women
Answer: D
A characteristic that the Shang Chinese shared
with Egyptian civilization was the
a)
b)
c)
d)
Principle of the mandate of heaven
Development of a writing system
Ancestor worship
Development of walled settlements to
defend against invaders.
Answer: B
Which of the following is true of both the Roman Empire and the
Han Empire?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Both empires were heavily dependent on slave labor.
Both empires were characterized by long periods of
effective centralized government.
In both empires extensive maritime trade was important.
In both empires administrative officials were selected by an
elaborate system of competitive examinations.
Answer: B
The political world of the ancient Greeks
A. was a history of early, long-lasting centralized
government
B. stabilized after the conquest by Persia
C. was very similar to that of Egypt
D. usually consisted of independent, autonomous
city-states
Answer: D
The first simplified alphabet, containing only 22
letters, was created by the
A. Mesopotamians
B. Assyrians
C. Hebrews
D. Phoenicians
Answer: D
In Mesopotamia, prisoners of war, convicted
criminals, and heavily indebted individuals
were the three main sources for
A. slaves
B. indentured servants
C. mercenary soldiers
D. indentured priests
Answer: A
Period Three
600 CE – 1450 CE
Which of the following statements most accurately reflects a
major difference between Arab expansion in the seventh
century and Viking expansion in the ninth century?
a) Arab expansion relied most heavily on diplomacy, while Viking
expansion relied most heavily on military might.
b) Viking expansion tended to occur in areas with few large
urban centers, while the Arab expansion occurred in areas
with comparatively large urban centers.
c) Arab expansion was financed by religious tithing, while Viking
expansion was financed by profit from the silk trade.
d) Viking expansion was limited to Ireland, Scotland, Iceland,
and Greenland, while Arab expansion was limited to the
Arabian Peninsula and Persia.
Answer: B
Which of the following is true of commerce in the Indian Ocean
during the time period 600-1450 C.E.?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Chinese merchants dominated the trade routes of the
Indian Ocean.
Merchants from Europe dominated the trade routes of the
Indian Ocean.
Following the rise of the Mongols during the thirteenth
century, the volume of Indian Ocean commerce fell sharply.
Indian Ocean commerce flourished and was conducted by a
mixture of Asian, Middle Eastern, and East African
merchants.
Answer: D
Which of the following had the greatest
manufacturing capacity during the time
period 600 to 1450 C.E.?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Japan
India
China
Western Europe
Answer: C
Trade spurred the introduction of both Islam
and Hinduism to what is now called:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Japan
Pakistan
Indonesia
Saudi Arabia
Answer: C
Which of the following statements about the Mongol
Empire of the thirteenth century is true?
a) The invasion of Japan was attempted but was
unsuccessful
b) The number of Buddhist and Muslims in Asia
dropped significantly as a result of Mongol
persecution
c) In China the Mongols eliminated the Chinese
scholar-official class
d) The Mongols conquered Constantinople
Answer: A
Which of the following was a common feature of
most Asian and European philosophies
during the period 600 to 1450 C.E.?
a)
b)
c)
d)
A close association with religion
Emphasis on experimental science
Reliance on ideas of individual freedom
Substantial scholarly exchange of ideas
among all world cultures
Answer: A
Which of the following contributed to the Chinese
government’s decision to stop voyages of
exploration in the Indian Ocean in the early
fifteenth century?
a) Armed resistance from Arab navies
b) Lack of sufficient Chinese goods for trade
c) Government concern with domestic problems and
frontier security
d) Fear of the spread of the plague to China
Answer: C
Marco Polo described which of the following at Kublai
Khan’s court that he had not encountered in
Europe?
a) The use of spies in foreign nations
b) The interest of the Khan in the international sea
trade and European shipbuilding techniques
c) The use of paper money and coal and the practice
of frequent bathing.
d) The attachment of the Khan to the use of horses
for military purposes.
Answer: C
In the period between 600 and 1450, Indian Ocean
trade differed from that of the Pacific Ocean in that
it:
a)
b)
c)
d)
was more regional in nature.
involved contacts with the islands of Southeast Asia.
involved only spices.
involved competition among a more diverse group
of traders.
Answer: D
Which of the following is true of the bubonic
plague?
a)
b)
c)
d)
It followed established trade routes.
It was a European phenomenon.
It affected West Africa.
It began in Europe and spread to China.
Answer: A
The millet system in the Islamic empires:
a) created cooperation among the ethnic
groups of the Ottoman Empire.
b) was a system of slavery.
c) interfered with religious sentiment.
d) promoted nationalist sentiment within the
Ottoman Empire.
Answer: D
Which of the following developments most
directly resulted from the Crusades?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Growth of Italian city-states.
Spread of the Black Death.
Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India.
Restriction of European traders to treaty
ports.
Answer: A
All of the following are true of the major
Amerindian civilizations in Central and South
America prior to the arrival of Europeans
except:
a)
b)
c)
d)
economies based on trade.
urban centers
differentiation of labor.
social stratification.
Answer: A
Which of the following reasons motivated both the
Abbasids and the Mongols to expand their
empires?
a) The desire to attack first to keep invaders from
their own territories.
b) The need to gain a port on the Baltic Sea
c) The desire for wealth and plunder.
d) Population pressures within their own empires.
Answer: C
All of the following characteristics are true of the Tang
and Song dynasties except:
a) Buddhism appeared in China for the first time.
b) The Confucian-educated scholar-gentry increased
its power in government and society.
c) Artistic and scientific innovations flourished.
d) The subordinate role of women was symbolized by
the practice of foot-binding.
Answer: A
Which of the following best describes the spread of Islam in East
Africa and Christianity in China?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Christianity was confined to the cities in China, while Islam
made converts in the interior through the Swahili trading
network.
Islam had a decided impact on the trading centers of East
Africa but little impact on the interior, whereas Christianity
had little impact on either urban or rural areas in China.
Through the trans-Saharan trading network, Islam reached
West Africa, but Christianity, with its reliance on priests, did
not travel as easily along.
The East African trading centers became a blend of African
and Islamic society and culture.
Answer: B
The Aztec civilization’s militaristic tone and use
of human sacrifice was based on the earlier
culture of the:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Inca
Maya
Mound Builders
Toltec
Answer: D
Commerce was a key mode of exchange
between which of the following pairs of
political entities?
a)
b)
c)
d)
The Mayan Empire and the Song dynasty
Ghana and the Mongol Empire
Japan and the Byzantine Empire
The Crusader states and the Fatimid
caliphate.
Answer: D
The success and timing of trade though the Indian
Ocean basin largely depended upon
A. controlling the actions of Turkish pirates
B. forming a lasting trading partnership with China
C. understanding the rhythms of the monsoon winds
D. the Indian desire to purchase pepper from the
Romans
Answer: C
Period Four
1450 CE – 1750 CE
Which of the following statements about slavery in the
pre-modern world is NOT accurate?
a) In Greece, slaves were most often foreigners or
prisoners of war.
b) In the Islamic world, slaves of kings could rise to highlevel positions.
c) Islamic law prohibited Muslims from being enslaved.
d) All pre-modern societies except those in India and
China traded slave labor.
Answer: D
16. Which of these were considered the
Gunpowder Empires?
a) Ming China, Mughal India, Seljuk Turks
b) Tokugawa Shogunate, Ming China, Yuan China
c) Ottoman Turkey, Delhi Sultanate, Khmer
Cambodia
d) Safavid Persia, Ottoman Turkey, Mughal India
Answer: D
18. A major difference between Spanish and French
colonization efforts was:
a) Only the Spanish were interested in resource
extraction in their colonies.
b) While Spain sent expeditions around the world,
French exploration was limited to North America.
c) The French were not as interested as the Spanish in
forming permanent settlements in their colonies.
d) The French were less successful than the Spanish at
religious conversion of people in their colonies.
Answer: C
21. “The capacities of women are supposed to be greater, and their
senses quicker than those of the men; and what they might be
capable of being bred to, is plain from some instances of female
wit, which this age is not without.”
The author of this passage would agree most with which of these
statements?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Because of their ability, women are stronger than men.
Women should be granted the right to vote.
It is acceptable for women to display humor in public.
With the proper education, women have the ability to be as smart
as men.
Answer: D
22. Which of the following statements is NOT true about
Akbar the Great?
a) Despite gaining power through military might, he was
known for being a benevolent ruler.
b) He constructed the Taj Mahal as a Muslim holy place.
c) He expanded Mughal control over all of north India.
d) He tried to establish a new religion, Divine Faith, to
unite Muslim, Hindu, and Christian tenets.
Answer: B
24. Which of the following is NOT a correct generalization about
Islamic societies between 1500 and 1700?
a)
b)
c)
d)
There was no intellectual movement corresponding to the
Renaissance and Islamic political and scientific progress lagged
behind the Europeans.
Economic depression and government corruption led to the
weakening of many Islamic states during the sixteenth century.
By the late 1700s, Islamic influence had ended everywhere except
in North Africa.
The discovery of new trade routes had a debilitating impact on the
ability of Islamic nations to maintain economic and political
control.
Answer: C
Period Five
1750 CE – 1900 CE
The first successful revolution in the
Caribbean and South America was launched
in:
a) Haiti
b) Argentina
c) Cuba
d) Colombia
Answer: A
In the nineteenth century, women’s use of
bound feet (China), white face paint (Japan),
and corsets (Western Europe) are examples
of which of the following?
a) Practices that inhibit female activities
b) The beauty of middle-class women
c) Fashions that spread worldwide
d) The middle class’ setting the fashion for
women
Answer: A
Which of the following best explains why Japan
was more successful than China in resisting
imperialist encroachments in the nineteenth
century?
a) Japan’s manipulation of the rivalries among
western governments
b) The introduction of democracy by the Meiji
Restoration
c) The willingness of Japan’s elite to sponsor reform
d) Lack of interest in Japanese markets
Answer: C
Which of the following facilitated European
expansion in Asia in the nineteenth century?
a) The popularity of democratic values among Asians
b) A general easing of tensions and cooperative
expeditions among European powers.
c) Europe’s development of new military technologies
d) Asians’ lack of resistance to European diseases
Answer: C
Which of the following describes the major impact
of the introduction of coffee growing in places like
Kenya and El Salvador after 1880?
a) The weakening of the European colonial military
and landowning elite
b) Access to cheaper food for Africans and Latin
Americans
c) Increased control over the land by Africans and
Latin Americans
d) Greater dependence on foreign markets by
Africans and Latin Americans
Answer: D
During the nineteenth century, Asian and
African rulers usually desired transfer of
which of the following western
technologies?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Medicines
Weapons
Navigational instruments
Textile manufacturing equipment
Answer: B
Which of the following best describes “Banana
Republics”?
a) one crop was prioritized at the expense of
developing additional crops and creating a complex
economy
b) parliamentary buildings created in a crescent
shape to stimulate active discussion
c) tropical regions that lived on bananas as a staple
product
d) businessmen and industrialists were unable to
strike deals with local aristocrats and politicians
Answer: A
Which of the following was among the first results
of the European Industrial Revolution in other
parts of the world?
a) Increased demand for commodities such as cotton
and palm oil
b) The search for oil in Africa, Asia and Latin America
c) Construction of textile factories in Africa and Asia
d) The partition of Africa by European imperial
powers.
Answer: A
What was the first major trade to be fully
power-driven and industrialized?
a) the canning of food
b) the textile industry
c) the production of rubber
d) the manufacture of glass
Answer: B
The Enlightenment was the intellectual movement in
which
A) the methods and questions of the Scientific
Revolution were applied to human society.
B) the methods and questions of the Confucian
examination system were applied to society
C) the methods and ideology of the Protestant
Reformation were applied to society
D) the ideas of the Renaissance were applied to
society
Answer: A
The revolutions of 1848 were widespread
across Europe and were inspired by
A) the establishment of permanent democracy
in the Holy Roman Empire
B) the desire for democratic reforms and
national self-determination
C) the installation of Louis Philippe as emperor
of the Holy Roman Empire
D) the demand that women be granted the
right to vote
Answer: B
Revolutions in Latin America were frequently a
power struggle between what two groups?
A) masters and slaves
B) peninsulares and creoles
C) European and indigenous peoples
D) Europeans and mestizos
Answer: B
In their critique of industrial capitalism, Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels claimed that
A) the most equitable and just society could be found
in an industrial commune
B) the bourgeois class needed to exercise
responsibility toward their workers
C) democracy had failed because most workers did
not understand their true interests; a dictatorship
would serve them better
D) only a workers’ revolution would change the
abuses of capitalism and create a just and equal
society
Answer: D
Adam Smith's concept of capitalism, presented in
The Wealth of Nations, included the idea that:
A) monopoly was a natural and a positive outcome of
capitalist activity
B) economic decisions on price, supply, and demand
should be made by the free market rather than by
government decision
C) although economic competition was good, the
government had to intervene from time to time to
protect the interests of society
D) although economic competition was good, the
education system had to teach moral concepts to
students to cushion the impacts of competition on
society
Answer: B
What does it mean to use a “division of labor” in
manufacturing?
A) Dividing the work force into capitalists and
communists
B) Dividing work into specialized and repetitive tasks
C) Using “division” as well as other mathematical
functions
D) Having the worker make the entire product
Answer: B
Much of the industrial workforce was composed of
child labor. Children workers
A) learned a great deal from their work and were
able to apply their skills later in life
B) worked fourteen to sixteen hours a day and were
beaten to stay awake
C) were only permitted by law to work a half day
D) were educated at the company’s expense as
mandated by law
Answer: B
Bismarck’s plan to unite most Germanspeaking people into a single state was
centered on using
A) liberalism and language
B) industry and nationalism
C) religion and conservatism
D) democracy and liberalism
Answer: B
Leaders of Meiji Japan planned to remain free
from Western imperialism by
A) negotiating with Western diplomats
B) restricting Western access to Japan
C) keeping out all foreign influences
D) becoming a world-class industrial power
Answer: D
The Meiji transformed the government and
incorporated
A) European practices in government,
education, industry, and popular culture
B) Chinese practices in government,
education, industry, and popular culture
C) Korean practices in government, education,
industry, and popular culture
D) Russian practices in government,
education, industry, and popular culture
Answer: A
Which of the following best summarizes the reform movements
of the Industrial Revolution?
A) capitalism should not be checked by government intervention
B) reform more possible in Russia than in the United States due to
autocratic structure
C) parliaments started passing laws that limited hours, child labor
and worsening working conditions
D) factory owners almost always made changes because they
realized a happy, healthy, well-paid work force could be more
productive
Answer: C
In China, a "sphere of influence" was
A) a city designated for trade between Chinese and
European merchants
B) a Christian mission where Chinese converts could
live free of state persecution
C) a district in which a foreign power had exclusive
trade, transportation, and mineral rights
D) a tributary state beyond the borders of the empire
that paid taxes to the Qing dynasty in exchange for
protection
Answer: C
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman
Empire, Russian Empire, Qing Dynasty, and Tokugawa
Japan were "societies at crossroads" because
A) they were all dealing with the challenges of rapid
industrialization
B) they discovered through wars and confrontations
that they were militarily much weaker than the
western powers
C) they were all forced to grant equal rights and
political freedom to their people
D) all of the above
Answer: B
The “white man’s burden” proposed by
Rudyard Kipling refers to
A) the cost of creating and supporting an
empire
B) the moral duty of the west to work to
“civilize” the rest of the world
C) the cost of abolishing slavery in Africa
D) the need for Christian missionaries to
undermine Islam in Africa and Asia
Answer: B
The Berlin Conference in 1884–1885 established
A) the rules of military engagement for European
forces overseas
B) that the Americas were off-limits for further
European colonization
C) that Africa would be carved into spheres of
influence similar to China
D) that, if a European power indicated its intention to
colonize and then proceeded to occupy an African
territory, it could claim that colony
Why was the Sepoy Rebellion a turning point
in the history of India?
A) The British were finally rebuffed and
withdrew from India
B) The sepoys successfully pushed the British
out of Bengal
C) India came to be ruled directly by the
British government
D) It inspired the development of new
weapons that did not require gunpowder
Answer: C
The British frustration by the enormous trade
deficit with China led to
A) British export of opium to China
B) repeated interventions by the Royal Navy
C) the British overthrow of the Qing
government
D) a temporary end of trade between the two
countries
Answer: A