AP WORLD Midterm Practice Test

Which of the following are the states that dominated the Mediterranean trade during the sixteenth century?

Italian city-states and the Ottoman Empire

Which of the following contributed most to the emergence of Russia as an expanding Eurasian power in the period between 1450 and 1750?

Its absorption of traditions and technology from the Byzantine Empire and western Europe

Which of the following did the Mongol armies fail to conquer, and why?

Japan, because severe storms aided the experienced Japanese naval forces

The table best supports which of the following conclusions about Japanese trade in the seventeenth century?

Japanese imports of foreign goods were funded primarily by the export of precious metals.

Which of the following factors best explains why the Portuguese did not engage in direct trading relations with West African states until the fifteenth century?

Lack of the necessary navigational and maritime technology

Which of the following best characterizes world trade in the period 1450 to 1750 ?

The demand for Asian commodities was financed by New World silver.

In the period 1500 to 1750, the population of the Portuguese colony of Brazil grew rapidly and became predominantly African. Which of the following best explains these demographic changes?

The increase in global demand for cash crops such as sugar

Which of the following best explains the relative volume of trade to different destinations as shown on the map?

The increasing demand for labor on cash crop plantations

Based on the passage, it could be inferred that the high prices of firewood in seventeenth-century Zacatecas were a result of which of the following processes?

The introduction of European practices of resource extraction

Which of the following statements about the Mongol Empire of the thirteenth century is true?

The invasion of Japan was attempted but was unsuccessful.

The illustration above shows which of the following about the fifteenth century?

The relative size of the European caravel and the Ming treasure ship

In the three centuries after Columbus' voyages, most of the people who came to the Western Hemisphere originated in which of the following regions?

Western Africa

Which of the following world history processes was most responsible for the eighteenth-century cityscape of St. Petersburg, Russia, shown above?

Westernization

Which of the following best describes patriarchal gender systems?

Women are inferiors and must be protected by men

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Mongol Empire?

It reestablished the Silk Road between East Asia and Europe.

As described in the second paragraph, the arguments made by the supporters of the opium trade were most similar to the arguments made in the early nineteenth century by supporters of the continued use of

African slave labor on sugar plantations in the Americas

All of the following were significant environmental effects of the trade illustrated on the map EXCEPT

Air pollution resulting from the increased exploitation of fossil fuels

Which of the following best describes the Mughal Empire?

A system in which an Islamic minority ruled over a Hindu majority

The domestic labor of the enslaved woman in the sketch is most similar to the predominant form of slavery in which of the following regions?

Africa

All of the following have been African contributions to cultures in the Americas EXCEPT: African forms of religious observance African forms of religious observance African musical forms African musical forms knowledge of how to grow African crops knowledge of how to grow African crops African folklore African folklore African monetary systems

African Monetary Systems

The Columbian Exchange involved which of the following new connections in the era 1450-1750?

African population to the Western Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere food to Europe and Africa; African and European diseases to the Western Hemisphere

Which of the following provides the most accurate description of the Columbian Exchange

African population to the Western Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere food to Europe and Africa; African and European diseases to the Western Hemisphere

Dara Shikoh's intellectual collaborations as described in the passage are most consistent with which of the following policies of imperial states such as the Mughal Empire in the period 1450 to 1750 C.E.?

Attempting to build support for imperial rule by accommodating religious and ethnic diversity

Which of the following is true of both the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire between 1450 and 1750 ?

Both empires were established by skilled warriors on horseback who came originally from Central Asia.

Which of the following characterized economic systems in Latin America and in Southeast Asia during the sixteenth century?

Both incorporated forced labor.

Which of the following characteristics of the Ottoman Empire best explains why Sinan was determined to match the dimensions of the Hagia Sophia church, as discussed in the third paragraph?

Bringing Constantinople, with its imperial traditions, under Islamic rule was one of the central pillars of Ottoman rulers' claims to political legitimacy.

Which of the following most clearly differentiates the sixteenth century from the previous period in world history?

Extension of sugar production to the Americas

In the period 1450—1750, which of the following, produced on large plantations by slave labor, were significant commodities in the growing world market?

Cash crops such as sugar and tobacco

All of the following statements are factually accurate. Which would best explain Béla IV's reasoning for inviting the Cumans into Hungary as mentioned in the third paragraph?

Cumans were nomadic warriors and were familiar with the Mongols' military tactics.

Most agricultural laborers in the Ottoman Empire were

Free Peasants

Which of the following statements is true about both the Mughal and the Ottoman empires in the sixteenth century?

Each had developed an efficient administrative structure.

In the period 1550-1750, most of the world's ten largest cities were located in which of the following regions?

East Asia

Which of the following best describes the impact on African society of the trade depicted on the map?

Gender and family roles were restructured as the male population in west africa diminished

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?

Government concern with domestic problems and frontier security

Which of the following is true of the expeditions of Chinese Admiral Zheng He in the early 1400s?

He sailed to ports on the Indian Ocean coastline, including those in East Africa.

Based on the description of the discovery of silver in Zacatecas in the second paragraph, which of the following conclusions about Mota y Escobar is best supported?

He was critical of the motivations of the Spanish conquistadors.

Which of the following lists three places Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Muslim traveler, visited?

India, Mali, and Persia

Which of the following is true of commerce in the Indian Ocean during the time period 1000-1450?

Indian Ocean commerce flourished and was conducted by a mixture of Asian, Middle Eastern, and East African merchants.

Trade spurred the introduction of both Islam and Hinduism to what is now called

Indonesia

Which of the following is most likely to have influenced eighteenth-century population trends in both Europe and China?

Introduction of Western Hemisphere crops

Which of the following is an illustration of this world economy theory?

Latin America exported sugar and silver and imported manufactured items.

The map above indicates that

Mali was a major source and hub of the gold trade

The map above shows which of the following empires at its greatest extent?

Mongol Empire

Which of the following historical developments most strongly contributed to the mapmaker's depiction of West Africa and the southern half of the world in Map 2 ?

Portugal's development of maritime technology and navigational skills

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?

Practices that inhibit female activities

Which of the following factors would contribute most to future revisions of Map 2 ?

Spanish sponsorship of trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific maritime exploration

The photograph above of a mosque (first erected in the fourteenth century) in the modern-day West African country of Mali best exemplifies which of the following historical processes?

Spread of religion along trade routes

Which of the following would complicate generalizations made from this world economy theory?

Strong governments in the slave-exporting regions of West Africa

Which of the following languages came into existence after 1000 as the direct result of expanding global trade patterns?

Swahili

Commerce was a key mode of exchange between which of the following pairs of political entities?

The Crusader states and the Fatimid caliphate

Which of the following would most directly challenge the labor system portrayed in the sketch?

The Enlightenment

The trade illustrated by the map contributed most directly to which of the following?

The Haitian Revolution

The changes in the distribution of cities in the period 1200 to 1400 C.E. best support which of the following conclusions?

The Mongol conquests had a more disruptive impact on the Middle East and Central Asia than they had on East Asia.

Which of the following was the most important factor in enabling the Spanish to defeat the Aztec Empire?

The Spanish were able to form military alliances with other indigenous peoples who were enemies of the Aztecs.

Which of the following best describes Middle Eastern trade in the period 1000 to 1450 ?

The area was engaged in regular trade with China, India, and sub-Saharan Africa.

A historian could best use the passage as evidence for which of the following?

The creation of a new political and economic elite in the immediate aftermath of the European conquest

The ethnic makeup of Zacatecas, as described in the passage, can best be used as evidence of which of the following?

The dependence of colonial economies on coerced labor

Which of the following would illustrate an objection to this world economic theory?

The development of manufacturing in colonial Latin America

The economic activities described in the passage contributed most directly to which of the following?

The emergence of the first truly global exchange networks

Which of the following resulted from the arrival of western Europeans in India and China during the time period 1450 to 1750 ?

The establishment of small European enclaves in India and China

Marco Polo described which of the following at Kublai Khan's court that he had not encountered in Europe?

The use of paper money and coal and the practice of frequent bathing

A historian would most likely use Map 1 to research which of the following developments in the period 1450-1750 ?

The ways that European cartography drew on earlier knowledge from the Islamic world and merchant activity in the Mediterranean

Which of the following describes the effect of skin color, ethnicity, and former slave status in Latin America in the late nineteenth century?

There continued to be discrimination on the basis of all three factors.

The map above demonstrates which of the following about the Indian Ocean trade?

Trade involved most of the regions bordering the Indian Ocean as well as China.

Slavery and serfdom were abolished in the 1860s in

United States and Russia

Béla IV's statement in the fourth paragraph that the Hungarian people "cannot cease to be amazed" by the actions of the papacy most directly refers to the papacy's failure to aid the Hungarians while

initiating European military campaigns in the Middle East

Before 1700, Spain governed its American colonies through a system of

appointed administrators

The Australian catalog page of 1929 shown above shows women primarily as

consumers in a world economy

Between 1500 and 1800, Europeans were primarily interested in tropical colonies in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and in the Caribbean because

large profits could be made from products like sugar, coffee, and pepper

Sinan's service to the Ottoman state best illustrates the fact that land-based empires in the period 1450-1750 often relied on

methods of recruitment of officials that made use of the ethnic and religious diversity of their subjects

Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) primarily because they

needed to resolve their territorial disputes after the discovery of ocean routes to the Americas and the Indian Ocean

All of the following factors contributed to significant growth in worldwide population from 1750 through 1900 EXCEPT

new grain crops developed in the Green Revolution

A significant example of the interaction among Indian, Arab, and European societies by 1200 C.E. was the transfer of knowledge of

numerals and the decimal system

The quotation above comes from a 1526 letter to a European monarch form a king located

on the western coast of Africa

The success of European powers in penetrating the Asian trading system by 1600 can best be explained by the

opening of rich silver mines in Peru and Mexico

Based on the intended purpose of Sinan's biography, it is most likely that the information in the passage might be

overstating the extent of the architectural challenges Sinan faced in building the mosque

In the fourteenth century, merchants from China, Arabia, Persia, and Egypt were drawn to Calicut, India, primarily to purchase

pepper

During the period 1600—1800, the leaders of China, Korea, and Japan all had policies that

regulated interactions with foreigners

The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by the expansion in the production of

sugar

Between 1450 and 1750, which of the following were produced on large plantations by slave labor for the world market?

sugar and tobacco

The economies of the southern colonies of colonial British America developed most like colonial economies in

the Caribbean and Brazil

A key issue that historians have debated in explaining the reasons for nineteenth-century slave emancipations involves

the role of humanitarianism

Under the Japanese system of feudalism after 1600, the emperor served as the symbol of authority while real power was held by

the shogun

The thirteenth-century map of Constantinople shown above indicates that the city

was highly fortified against outside attacks