AP World Midterm Review

which of the following conclusions is best supported by the way Khubilai Khan chose to have himself protrayed in the painting?

The nomadic tradition depicted in the painting would bolster Khubliai Khan's claim to be the legitimate sucessor to Genghis Khan

Which of the following was a major cause for the growth of cities throughout afro-Eurasia from 800 CE to 1350 CE

The rise of interregional commerce

the photograph to the right of the suleymaniye mosque in Instanbul exemplifies which of the following historical processes?

The synthesis of established cultural traditions and new traditions

Between 1450 and 1750, empires such as the Ottoman and Chinese shared which of the following?

The use of a large burecracy to support the government

Which of the following factors contributed most to Manchu expansion in ASia during the 17th and 18th century

The use of cannons and gun powder

Many forced and free migrants practiced the religious beliefs of their homelands as a way of adapting to unfamiliar experiences and environments in their destination societies. Which of the following processes best supports the historical arguments above?

African slaves in the Americas integrating African beliefs into their practice of Christianity

which of the following was a major change in transregional trade patterns from 1500-1700

Europeans created joint stock companies to engage in over seas trade

Which of the following describes a major cause of the expansion of the Ottoman empire in the 15th and 16th centr=uries

Exploitation of artillery and small arms gave the ottomans advantages over many of their political rivals

A historian examining Mesoamerica in the 16th century would best utilize the sources above to analyze which of the following topics?

How Christian ideas were communicated to and understood by Amerindians

The establishment of the Mongol Empire directly facilitated which of the following

Increased cultural and technological exchange between the Islamic world and China

Which of the following processes contributed to the emergence of syncretic and new religions in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres during the 16th century

Increases in global interactions

which of the following was the main reason that buddhist thought had important social implications for South Asia

It challenged hierarchies based on caste

During the period 1450 to 1750, which of the following commodities was most responsible for transforming the global economy?

Silver

which of the following best supports the conclusion that Japan borrowed extensively from Tang and Song China

Social relations in Japan were based on Confucian principles of hierarchy

Which of the following regions was LEAST affected by the expansion of European trade networks in the period 1450 to 1750 CE?

The Indian Ocean

Ibn Battuta traveled widely across the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa in the fourteenth century. His travels serve as evidence for the

unifying influence of Islam

Muslim maritime activities in the Indian Ocean were most disrupted by which of the following sixteenth-century developments?

The arrival of Portuguese and other Europeans

Some world historians have argued that the growth of European influence in the period 1450-1750 was due in large part to non-European inventions. The history of which of the following technological developments best supports this contention?

The compass

the outbreaks of plaque described in the passage led most directly to which of the following

The decline of many major cities across Eurasia

Which of the following resulted from the fragmentation of the Mongol Empire following the death of Genghis Khan?

The development of Khanates in Central ASia

based on the chart and your knowledge of world history which of the following most directly enabled the dutch to establish and enforce monopoly on the southeast Asian clove trade in the seventeenth century

The development of powerful joint-stock commercial companies

which of the following accurately describes the effect of the spread of Christianity among most Amerindian societies after 1500 CE?

Amerindians maintained local customs by combining indigenous beliefs with elements of Christianity

which of the following best describes the realtionship that the Chinese and Aztec empires had with their respective peripheral states during the 15th century CE

Both empires established tributary relationships with their peripheral states

Which of the following developments best explains why many historians argue that the song dynasty period (960-1279 CE) was pivotal in the development of China as an economic world power

China's population doubled and Chinese urban centers experienced massive growth during the Song period

Which of the following societies engaged in extensive maritime trade well beyond their borders in the 15th century

Chinese in the Indian Ocean

The building in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, shown to the right, is an example of which of the following concepts

Cultural diffusion

Th photograph above of a 16th century Mughal mosque in India built by Akbar is an example of which of the following?

Cultural syncretisim

which of the following was a method rulers in Eurasia used to legitimize and consolidate their power during the period 1450CE-1750CE

Developing professional militaries

The photograph on the right shows a fourteenth century CE mosque in the city of Xi'an, Central china. This image most clearly supports which of the following conclusions about the spread of Islam?

Early Muslim communities in China adopted local architectural styles for their religious buildings.

which of the following was most responsible for the initial spread of Islam to West Africa

Merchants on the trans-Saharan trade routes

which of the following characterized the trans-Saharan trade by 1250 CE

Muslim merchants dominated the trade

which of the following would best support the conclusion that the Colombian Exchange involve more profound consequenes than did earlier biological exchanges in world history

Previous exchanges did not involve the world's two hemispheres

Navarro's economic observations expressed in the passage above are best understood in the context of which of the following?

The influx of silver from the Americas into the Spanish economy

Which of the following describes the most important cause of the demographic changes associated with the Columbian exchange

The introduction of New World food crops to Afro-Eruasia and the spread of epidemic diseases to the Americas

which is the most likely reason that ruler during the 17th century built elaborate palaces such as the one at Versailles, France shown above

To demonstrate their wealth and power

In the period 600 CE to 1450 CE, states in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam had which of the following in common

all were culturally influenced by China

which of the following is a similarity between the Ottoman and Chinese Governments during the period 1450-1750

an extensive governmental bureaucracy

As Islam spread between 1200 and 1600, it affected gender relations in which of the following ways?

existing local customs regarding marriage and the role of women blended with islamic models

which of the following was a major long term effect of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in the late 1490's

it led to the integration of European merchants into the Indian Ocean economy

which of the following factors best explains the distribution of Muslim populations shown on the map to the left?

merchant activity

Commander Cotton's reaction to the events in Jamaica, in the notice above, might best be understood in the context of which of the following?

mounting resisitance to slavery in the America's reflecting in challenges to imperial authority

The inclusion of the caravan in the painting's background could best be used as evidence that Yuan rulers

portrayed themselves as promoters of commerce

the map illustrates which of the following?

predominate areas of orgin and destinations of African slaves in the 15th -19 centuries

What similar view of Dona Marina is portrayed in both images?

she is protrayed as an essential part of the negotations

Historians consider the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries to be a time of great change in cultivation methods and in the physical landscape of Latin America. Which of the following pairings was most responsible for these changes?

slave labor and sugar

the 19 century monument pictured above, located on the island of Java in present day indonesia best exemplifies which of the following historical processes

spread of universalizing religions beyond their places of orgin

The transfer of which of the following as part of the Colombian exchange had the greatest effect on human migration patterns before 1800

sugarcane

On a global scale, which of the following most directly led to the expansion of the trade between Europe and Asia in the time period reflected in the chart

the shifting balance of trade as a result of the circulation of american silver

the passsage by al-Khatib is best understood in the context of which of the follwing

the spread of the black death and the aftermath of the mongol conquest

the illustration would be most useful to a historian studying which of the following

transportation and maritime technologies

In the period 1450-1750, the intensification of connections between the eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere had which of the following effects on religious practices

syncretic forms of religion such as vodun developed

which of the following was the most important factor in the spread of islam in southeast asia in the period circa 1250-1500 CE

the activities of muslim traders and sufi missionaries

During the 17th century one of the reasons Africians participated in the Atlantic slave trade was

the demand for weapons among African elites

For the period circa 1580-1650 which of the following most directly caused the price flucutatuions shown in the chart

the intensification of competition among European states over the control of profitable maritime trade routes

which of the following was the most important factor in the spread of bubonic plague in euroasia

the mongol expansion from central asia to china, eastern europe and the middle east

which of the following accurately describes a significant difference between the ottoman and Mughal empires in the early 17th century

the ottoman's ruled over people who were predominately muslim while the mughals did not