AP World History Penultimate Unit Test (1424 Terms of Mostly Useless Information)
(Ch. 21) The Jacobin members of the National Convention were....
middle class democrats
(Ch. 21) The enlightenment's ferment was embraced by the...
middle class.
(Ch. 29) At the height of the Stalinist terror of the 1930s
millions of ordinary Soviet citizens were sent to gulags often for no reason.
(Ch. 20) The Japanese response to the Society of Jesus or the Jesuits was
mixed; while some were attracted to it, others were opposed.
(Ch. 29) Franklin D. Roosevelt's economic recovery plan was:
the new deal
(Ch. 29) The slogan repeated in the fascist Italy was
"il Duce (the leader) is always right"
(Ch. 14) What percentage of Western European population was rural during the late Middle Ages?
90%
(Ch. 14) Which of the following was not a social result of the Black Death epidemic?
A call for democracy, but it was a demand by laborers for higher pay, peasant revolutions, an increase in per capita production, an end of serfdom for all intents and purposes
(Ch. 29) One of the most outspoken feminists of the Bolshevik Party was
Alexandra Kollontai.
(Ch. 29) Hitler's first invasion with a newly rearmed Germany was in
Austria
(Ch. 28)Most European nations thought the war that started in 1914 would
BE WON BY THE FASTEST MOVING ARMY AND THE BOLDEST GENERAL
(Ch. 14) Which of the following is true of merchant banking in the fifteenth century?
Checking accounts, shareholding companies, moneychanging, loans, and investments were offered as services
(Ch. 29) The purge of the chinese Communist Party began in 1927 by
Chiang Kai-Shek.
(Ch. 14) Which of the following is not a distinctive feature of the Gothic cathedral?
Domes, but the flying buttress, giant stained-glass windows, the Gothic arc, and their great height were
(Ch. 14) What changes transformed later medieval military technology?
Firearms and crossbows with metal-tipped arrows
(Ch. 14) The Bubonic Plague was brought to Europe by
Genoese traders
(Ch. 28)The early twentieth century system of alliance pitted the British, French, and Russians against
GERMANY, ITALY AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
(Ch. 14) What "architectural wonder" first made its appearance in France on or about the year 1140 C.E.?
Gothic cathedrals
(Ch. 29) Which of the following was not one of the actions taken by Benito Mussolini?
He allowed freedom of the press.
(Ch. 21) Why was Napoleon Bonaparte successful?
He promised order and stability in France.
(Ch. 29) Which of the following was not among Mao Zedong's policies toward women?
He put women in leadership positions.
(Ch. 20) The predominant religion in the eastern Russian empire was
Islam
(Ch. 14) Which of the following does not describe the Divine Comedy?
It wasn't written in Latin like most literature of the time. It is described by: it features the Roman poet Virgil as the author's guide through Hell, it used the vernacular, foreshadowing the literary fashions of the later Italian Renaissance, it was written by Dante Alighieri, it made use of Greco-Roman classical themes
(Ch. 29) Which two countries were particularly hard hit by the Depression?
Japan and Germany.
(Ch. 20) After the period of civil wars ended in Japan
Japanese leaders established the Tokugawa Shogunate, a centralized military government
(Ch. 20) Samurai
Japanese warriors that were loyal to their daimyo or lord
(Ch. 20) The term "Dutch studies" referred to
Japanese who learned about European weapons, shipbuilding, and sciences
(Ch. 29) Hitler's "master race" reserved intense hatred for
Jews.
(Ch. 29) Hitler signed a "secret pact" with which world leader in 1939?
Josef Stalin
(Ch. 21) The French Revolution began on
July 14, 1789
(Ch. 14) In the universities of the Latin West, all courses were taught in
Latin
(Ch. 14) Western European of the later Middle Ages referred to themselves as
Latins
(Ch. 14) Joan of Arc
Led the French to victory in a decisive battle during the Hundred Years War
(Ch. 20) When Li Zicheng overthrew Beijing, the Ming turned to
Manchu soldiers from the North for help.
(Ch. 29) What did Adolf Hitler write while jail in the 1920s?
Mein Kampf
(Ch. 29) Stalin's main tool for implementing terror was the
NKVD
(Ch. 21) In 1830, Greece won its independence from the...
Ottoman Empire
(Ch. 20) The greatest Romanov tsar was
Peter the Great
(Ch. 20) Merchants from which country were the first to arrive in East Asia?
Portugal
(Ch. 29) Mao Zedong's variety of communism was a radical departure from the traditional ideology because it
Relied on the peasantry.
(Ch. 21) The end of the Reign of Terror came in 1794 when...
Robespierre was arrested and executed by conservatives in the Convention
(Ch. 21) Napoleon's invasion of ______ led to his decline.
Russia
(Ch. 20) Which two empires had vast amounts of land, armies that depended on large numbers of soldiers to defeat the enemy, used forced labour such as serfs and peasants, and tolerated diversity while trying to promote assimiliation?
Russia and China
(Ch. 20) One result of the "Great Northern War" was
Russian access to the Baltic Sea
(Ch. 28)In the early twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire was referred to as the
SICK MAN OF EUROPE
(Ch. 20) The new city that was to be Russia's "window on the West" was
St. Petersburg
(Ch.28)A unique aspect of the Western Front was
THE THREE HUNDRED MILE LONG LINE OF ARMIES FROM SWITZERLAND TO THE NORTH SEA
(Ch. 21) The system of social organization in France would have placed the clergy in which estate?
The First estate
(Ch. 20) Who were the transmitters of science and technology to China?
The Jesuits
(Ch. 20) Which empire replaced that of the Ming?
The Qing Empire
(Ch. 21) Robespierre was a member of which political party?
The Mountain
(Ch. 28) In the early twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire was referred to as the
The Sick Man of Europe
(Ch. 21) Which French estate declared itself to be the National Assembly?
The Third Estate
(Ch. 21) Which of the following was NOT one of the major 18th-century wars in Europe?
The Thirty Years War
(Ch. 20) The motivation for Russian expansion to the east was
demand for animal pelts
(Ch. 21) When the Parisian crowd marched to Versailles, it...
demanded the return of the royal family to Paris.
(Ch. 21) Who was Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture?
The leader of the slave revolt in Saint Dominque
(Ch. 14) Which of the following fostered artistic growth in the Renaissance?
The patronage of wealthy merchants and prelates
(Ch. 21) After his escape from Elba, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of....
Waterloo
(Ch. 14) One of the most significant growth industries in the 14th century was:
merchant banking
(Ch. 21) The guillotine was...
a device used to execute people.
(Ch. 21) The Congress of Vienna was...
a meeting of delegates from Britain, Austria, Russia, and other European countries to restore order in Post-Napoleonic Europe.
(Ch. 20) The VOC (Dutch East India Company) representatives gained the favor of the Chinese emperor by
acknowledging him with the ritual of the "kowtow"
(Ch. 14) A guild was
an association of craft specialists from the same trade
(Ch. 20) European visitors to Ming China in the sixteenth century were
astonished by its power, manufacturing, and vast population
(Ch. 21) In response to economic depression, hunger, and high bread prices in 1789, a Parisian crowd...
attacked the Bastille
(Ch. 21) One of Rousseau's most radical ideas was that government...
authority rested on the consent of the governed.
(Ch. 21) As a result of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was...
beheaded :D
(Ch. 20) The nobility in Russia were known as the
boyars
(Ch. 29) The better-off peasants, or kulaks, reacted to the collectivization by
burning their crops and killing their livestock
(Ch. 21) The Declaration of the Rights of Man was a...
contract between the King and the National Assembly outlining certain rights.
(Ch. 21) The French Revolution....
did not create an enduring form of representative democracy
(Ch. 29) Hitler's popularity came in large part from the German people's belief that
economic well-being outweighed a loss of liberty.
(Ch. 21) Support for the Haitian revolution was found in the gens de couleur, who were....
free men and women of color in Haiti.
(Ch. 29) Stalin's first five year plan stressed
increased in electricity and heavy industries.
(Ch. 21) Saint Domingue (in Haiti) was most important to France because...
it generated 1/3 of all French foreign trade.
(Ch. 20) In the 1630s the Japanese government
largely closed Japan to European trade and Christian influence
(Ch. 20) In 1592, after years of civil war, Hideyoshi
launched an invasion of Korea and China
(Ch. 14) The Renaissance began in
northern Italy
(Ch. 21) Aside from the brutal conditions on Saint Domingue, the island erupted in revolt because....
of the mystical visions of its leader
(Ch. 14) By the time it subsided, the Black Death had killed
one out of three western Europeans
(Ch. 21) Which of the following would John Locke have argued?
people have the right to rebellion
(Ch. 21) Napoleon's rise to power marked another modern form of government called...
popular authoritarianism.
(Ch. 21) Napoleon won the support of the peasantry and the middle class by...
rewriting French law to assert equality in law and protection of property.
(Ch. 20) According to the Russian census of 1795, over half the population were
serfs
(Ch. 29) The Soviet Union paid for the First Five-Year Plan
squeezing the peasants
(Ch. 20) A Russian independent tribal society of warriors
the Cossacks
(Ch. 14) What caused the end of serfdom in western Europe?
the Black Death
(Ch. 20) Although european enthusiasm for Chinese trade was high
the Chinese were slow to embrace European trade.
(Ch. 14) Which of the following was the first to use heavy machinery in the production of paper?
the Europeans
(Ch. 21) In 1787, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General, the French National Legislature, because...
the French elite wouldn't consent to new taxes.
(Ch. 20) The princes of Muscovy organized a movement of conquest and expansion against
the Golden Horde
(Ch. 21) The Tennis Court Oath was
the declaration by the Third estate that they would no convene again without a constitution.
(Ch. 20) One of the consequences of Japanese aggression in the sixteenth century was
the defeat of weakened Chinese armies by the Manchu
(Ch. 21) The enlightenment was the intellectual movement in which...
the methods and questions of the Scientific Revolution were applied to human society.
(Ch. 20) During the reign of the Qing Empire, Europe gained
the practice of decorating homes with wallpaper, silk, porcelain, tea, Qing poetry, and an early form of inoculation
(Ch. 20) The Tokugawa Shogunate was weakened because
the samurai went into debt, merchants gained power, population&economic growth put strain on resources, and the government did not change as society became more modern
(Ch. 29) Hitler's goal for Germany included all of the following except
to divide the Western world from the Eastern by a tripartite pact with Japan.
(Ch. 20) To gain Chinese converts, the Jesuits
tolerated Confucian ancestor worship
(Ch. 29) China's response to the Depression was
very little, as their problems were more political.