AP World History Unit 3 Test Review

Pastoral societies

A pastoral society is a social group of pastoralists, whose way of life is based on pastoralism, and is typically nomadic. Daily life is centered upon the tending of herds or flocks. were able to construct powerful and impressive civilizations on the arid margins of agricultural land.

A historian researching the timeline of the spread of iron metallurgy in sub-Saharan Africa would find which of the following sources most useful?

Archaeological evidence of early forges and smelting operations

In what way was the spread of Christianity in similar to the spread of Buddhism in?

Christianity and spreading Buddhism suggest a similar process at work, as ordinary people sought a well-organized spiritual outlet different from traditional animism, more focused on otherworldly salvation

Which region gained the most from the exchanges of ideas and technologies facilitated by the Mongol Empire?

Europe

Which of the following was an immediate effect of the initial Muslim conquests of the seventh century C.E.?

Expansion of muslim power and islam , territory loss of Sassanid and byzantine empires

Know what a Griot is. Critical thinking question.

Groits are professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisers to kings within the Mali empire If there's a passage- To establish the griot's authority by connecting him to the past

Which of the following was a way in which the Mongols contributed to the globalization of the Eurasian world?

In providing a secure environment for traders, they facilitated long-distance international commerce.

Which of the following factors represents the most significant cause of the growth of cities in Afro-Eurasia in the period 1000-1450?

Increased interregional trade

Which of the following statements regarding the tenets of Islam is accurate?

Islam is a monotheistic religion

In the period 1000 to 1450, which of the following developments partially resulted from knowledge of Greek science and technology?

Islamic medical books in Baghdad.

How did the Songhay Empire fit into the Islamic world of the fifteenth century?

It was a substantial Islamic state on the West African frontier of the Islamic world.

Which of the following is true of pre-Islamic Arabia?

Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians lived among the established Arab populations.

The spread of Bantu-speaking peoples over southern Africa over can be best explained by their

Knowledge of agriculture

Which of the following was an important continuity in the social structure of states and empires in the period 600 B.C.E to 1450 C.E.?

Landholding aristocracies tended to be the dominant class

Trade in Africa question - what did the Islamic countries of Africa trade?

Maybe not sure- slaves

This type of wall decoration illustrated above would most commonly be found in a

Mosque

Which of the following characterized the trans-Saharan trade by 1250 C.E.?

Muslim merchants dominated trade

Which of the following statements is the best definition of Sikhism?

Sikhism blended elements of Hinduism and Islam to create a new religion.

The photography above of a mosque (first erected in the 14th 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 languages came into existence after 1000 as the direct result of expanding global trade patterns?

Swahili

Which of the following was an important continuity in the history of the Mediterranean region between 400 and 1000 C.E.?

The Byzantine Empire remained a centralized Christian empire in the Mediterranean

Which of the following was a long-term impact of the Crusades?

The Crusades led to Western Christendom conquering the Muslim regions of the Iberian Peninsula.

In what ways did the Incan and Aztec Empires differ substantially from each other?

The Incan Empire built an elaborate bureaucracy to integrate its subjects; the Aztecs did not.

This Muslim empire forcibly imposed a Shia version of Islam as the official religion of the state.

The Safavid Empire.

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.

The Byzantine Empire

The split between the Eastern and Western churches started the decline of the byzantine empire. Turkey lead the final defeat of the Byzantine Empire In which city did the Byzantine Empire struggle to hang on until then defeated? Constantinpole

Which of the following describes a major effect of the Bantu migrations?

The spread of Islam across sub-Saharan Africa

Which of the following groups of people entered the Middle East in the 11th century CE, and came to dominate most of Anatolia?

The turks

In the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E., merchant diaspora communities, such as those of Muslims in India, Chinese in Southeast Asia, and Jews in the Mediterranean, had which of the following in common?

They generally introduced their own culture into the local culture

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share which of the following?

They recognize the existence of Adam and Moses

The Mongol conquests in China

Took 70 years to conquest

Which of the following was the major contributing factor to the spread of the plague to Cairo, Beijing, and Florence in the 14th century?

Trade along the mongol road system across central Asia

Of which region is it true that Islam spread especially among merchants, thanks to inclusion in a major Islamic trading network, rather than by conquest and Islamic rule?

West Africa

Why did the Ming government suddenly stop the exploration of the basin?

Yongle's successors viewed expansion as a waste of time and resources.

The Hundred Years' War between and (1337-1453) was comparable to which conflict in Ming China during the fifteenth century?

d. None of these; Ming China was internally unified, unlike Europe.

Sufi missionaries helped to convert groups in Anatolia or India to Islam by

emphasizing personal experience of the divine, rather than the law.

The cross regional ties created in the expanding Islamic world

facilitated the largest exchange of agricultural products and practices from one region to another in world history prior to Europe's encounter with the Americas.

Which of the following resulted from Mongol rule over Russia?

the adoption by Russian princes of the Mongols diplomatic rituals and court practices.