AP World History Practice Exam

Which of the following statements describes developments in the Americas that contributed to the changes in British sugar imports?

British primarily relied on indentured servants to work on their sugar colonies in the Caribbean.

The sentiments expressed in this passage contributed most strongly to which of the following developments? (Page. 738)

Civil wars in post-colonial African states that led to dictatorships.

Which of the following best explains the overall cereal production trend shown in the graph? (Page. 742)

Increasing use of nuclear energy.

Which of the following conclusions about cereal production is best supported by the data in this graph? (Page. 742)

It failed to eliminate starvation and food insecurity.

Which of the following best explains the population trend shown in the graph in the period from 1961 to 2014? (Page. 742)

Medical advances such as vaccines and antibiotics.

The ideas expressed in the Source 1 and Source 2 correspondence share the most similarity in goals to those of nineteenth-century reformers seeking modernization in the... (Page. 735)

Ottoman Empire.

Which of the following conclusions about porcelain is best supported by the passage?

People in the Middle East preferred luxury items made in Persia.

Which of the following arguments about empires in the 16th century is best supported by the evidence shown on the map? (Page. 728)

Political unity characterized Dar al-Islam after the Abbasid Caliphate.

Which of the following historical developments during the second half of the 20th century is best conveyed by the passage? (Page. 743)

Popular culture increasingly reflected a globalized society.

Which of the following was the most immediate political change in the Mongol Empire after the death of Genghis Khan?

Russian rulers in Moscow became more powerful.

Which of the following best explains the ideas expressed by the author in the title and contents of the passage? - David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World, 1992.

Stannard respects Columbus for searching for a Northwest Passage to the East Indies.

The views expressed in Source 1 and Source 2 are best used as evidence of which of the following? (Page. 729)

State expansion was resisted by local groups.

Which of the following U.S. actions best supports a counterargument to the claim that "the American imperialists unleashed the so-called cold war"?

Supporting South Korea against North Korea in the Korean War.

The events described in the passage are best understood in the context of which of the following? (Page. 739)

Tensions during negotiations over the British withdrawal from India.

Source 1 was most directly influenced by which of the following developments? (Page. 735)

The Haitian Revolution.

What development most aided the growth in the labor supply needed for the increasing production of porcelain and other manufactured goods?

The changes in agriculture, including the introduction of a fast-growing variety of rice known as champa, increased food production.

The passage best illustrates which of the following causes of global conflict in the 20th century? (Page. 739)

The destructiveness of total war.

Which of the following was the most important broader context in which the above passage was written? (Page. 731)

The emergence of nationalism.

What factor is most responsible for the trend of increasing trade in the Indian Ocean during the period shown on the timeline? - Chola Kingdom (850-1267), Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526), Mughal Empire (1526-1857).

The growth of Dar al-Islam.

All of the following contributed to causing the situation described by the passage EXCEPT... (Page. 732)

The highly organized imperial bureaucracy of Qing Dynasty China.

The conflict described in the passage resulted most directly in which of the following? (Page. 739)

The outbreak of a Communist revolution in South Asia.

The situation described in the second paragraph was most similar to which of the following? (Page. 738)

The sixteenth-century trading-post empire of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean basin.

Which of the following contributed most to the trend in British population shown in the table in the years from 1750 to 1770 (Page. 730)

The spread of disease pathogens along trade routes.

Which of the following best describes the most likely purpose of telling these details about Sundiata?

To persuade listeners that his rule over the Mali Empire was justified.

Which of the following would most likely be cited by someone who viewed U.S. actions in creating NATO more favorably than Ponomaryov did?

U.S. policy was to contain communism, not let it spread.

NATO as described in the passage is best understood as... (Page. 740)

a political body promoting international cooperation.

The image was most likely produced in the context of the early decades of the Western European transition from... (Page. 733)

absolutism to constitutional monarchy.

A government enacting policies based on Adam Smith's ideas would be most likely to...

limit the amount of shoe imports.

Adam Smith disagreed with mercantilism because of his belief that good government should...

limit the extension of colonial rule to new territories.

One similarity between Source 1 and Source 2 is that both... (Page. 734)

recognize why workers might support a revolution.

The ideas expressed in Source 2 could be used most directly to explain why workers might... (Page. 734)

take over factories, mines, and other means of industrial production.

An important context of the successful Spanish conquest was that...

the Aztec population grew after the introduction of Spanish technology.

The author's most likely purpose is to show that the spread of American culture is... (Page. 743)

the foundation on which globalized culture is created.

The image's message indicates that the artist would most likely support... (Page. 733)

the policies of laissez-faire economics.

The Mughals consolidated rule of South Asia as a...

Hindu Empire.

Which of the following developments was most immediately caused by the circumstances described in the passage? (Page. 732)

Japan used the conflict between China and Great Britain to justify the Sino-Japanese War.

Which of the following factors contributed most to changing the political rule of territory in the Middle East in the period from 1920 to 1945?

Jewish Zionism establishing a new nation in the Middle East.

Which group was most likely to agree with the artist in the 1840's? (Page. 733)

Land-holding nobles.

Which of the following statements best describes the results of Western influence in East Asia between 1750 and 1900?

Meiji Japan copied western economic development.

European exploration at the end of the 15th century was motivated most strongly by a desire to...

avoid the ottoman-controlled trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean.

The Benin Bronze... could best be used as evidence for a historian studying..

hierarchy in West African society.

The empires, shown on the map, expanded during the 15th and 16th centuries mostly as a result of diffusion of technology of...

transportation.

The ideas expressed in Source 1 most directly emerged out of... (Page. 734)

unsuccessful attempts in Russia to end rule of the tsars.

The best evidence to support the claim in the exerpt that Sundiata "was striving towards a great destiny" is that Mali became...

wealthy from trans-Saharan trade conducted by Muslims.

Which of the following statements provides the strongest evidence to support the argument of the author in the passage? (Page. 743)

Films from Hollywood dominate the global movie market.

Which of the following ideologies led to the British economic interactions with their American colonies that are shown in the table? (Page. 730)

Free-trade

Which of the following most directly led to the political rule of territory shown on the map? (Page. 737)

The enactment of United States President Wilson's principle of self-determination.

Which if the following trends in the last half of the twentieth century most clearly led to the writing of the passage above? (Page. 741)

The establishment of a world led by the United States and the Soviet Union.

Which of the following best describes the results of the events depicted in the image? (Page. 736)

They marked the first victory in the modern era of Europeans over an Asian nation.

Which of the following best explains the reason for including a statement in the Nigerian Constitution encouraging "inter-marriage among" people of diverse backgrounds?

To support for cultural pluralism.

As shown by the Benin Bronze, the most influential context shaping West Africa in the 16th century was the...

adoption of European political structures by West African rulers.

The passage most strongly supports the idea that the Mongols...

created a loose confederation of local kings, sultans, and caliphs.

Spanish goals diverged from those Stannard attributed to Columbus in the passage with the...

development of a profitable tobacco industry.

The reference to a system that is "shameful, irreligious, unscientific and undemocratic" is best understood as a challenge to...

fascism.

The ideas of the passage are most similar to the ideas expressed by the... (Page. 741)

founding document of the International Monetary Fund.