Unit 3 Ap Classroom Questions

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

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

Based on your knowledge of world history, which of the following factors contributed most directly to the Mughal Empire's territorial expansion in South Asia?

A) The Mughals' adoption and effective use of gunpowder weapons

The Ottoman Empire's recruitment of soldiers and bureaucrats through the system depicted in the image is most similar to which broader method that rulers used to strengthen their empires in the period 1450-1750 ?

A) The collection of Tribute

The portrait of Emperor Jahangir in Image 1 was most likely a symbolic representation of which of the following?

B) The expanding power of the Mughal Empire

The inclusion of the image in the manuscript best illustrates which of the following features of the period 1450-1750 ?

D) Rulers using art to legitimize their rule

Which of the following best explains the process illustrated in the image?

D) States used gunpowder weapons to establish large empires.

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

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

Which of the following was a method rulers in Eurasia used to legitimize and consolidate their power during the period 1450 C.E. to 1750 C.E.?

A) Developing professional militaries

Which of the following explains the most common effect that the process illustrated in the image had on relationships between states in Afro-Eurasia in the period 1450-1750 ?

A) It led to deepening rivalries and conflicts as states' military capabilities grew.

Which is the most likely reason that rulers during the seventeenth century built elaborate palaces such as the one at Versailles, France, shown above?

A) To demonstrate their wealth and power

From 1400 to 1750, Eurasian rulers sponsored the arts primarily for which of the following reasons?

A) To display power and legitimize their rule

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

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

Which of the following accurately describes a significant difference between the Ottoman and Mughal Empires in the early seventeenth century?

B) The Ottomans ruled over people who were predominately Muslim, while the Mughals did not.

The changes depicted in Map 1 were mostly a result of which of the following?

B) The decline of surrounding empires and the Ottoman Empire's use of gunpowder weapons

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

Both empires expanded through the use of gunpowder weapons and extensive bureaucracies.

The recruitment depicted in the image is best understood in the context of which of the following developments in the period 1450-1750 ?

C) Attempts by imperial states to centralize their authority

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

C) Each had developed an efficient administrative structure.

Which of the following describes a major cause of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

C) Exploitation of artillery and small arms gave the Ottomans advantages over many of their political rivals.

Taken together, the two images best support which of the following claims regarding developments in the period from 1450 to 1750 ?

C) Gunpowder technology facilitated the expansion of land-based empires.

The methods of warfare shown in the image were instrumental in explaining the territorial expansion of all of the following land-based empires EXCEPT

C) The Aztec (Mexica) Empire

Which of the following contributed the most to the Ottoman Empire's successful expansion in Europe and the Middle East in the period from 1450 to 1600 ?

C) The Ottomans' adoption of the latest gunpowder and artillery technology

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

C) The use of a large bureaucracy to support the government

Which of the following was an important continuity from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing dynasty in the seventeenth century?

C) The use of the examination system and other Confucian bureaucratic practices

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

C) Westernization

Which of the following is a similarity between the Ottoman and Chinese governments during the period 1450—1750 ?

D) An extensive governmental bureaucracy

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

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

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?

D) 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 empires in the period 1450-1750 engaged in a type of territorial expansion most similar to that depicted in Map 1 ?

D) The Mughal Empire

Which of the following developments in the period 1450-1750 could best be used as evidence to modify Darwin's argument in the first paragraph about the establishment of Eurasian empires on "nomadic foundations"?

D) The establishment of the Safavid Empire

Which of the following factors contributed most to Manchu expansion in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

D) The use of cannons and gunpowder

Which of the following was the most likely purpose of the portraits of the emperor?

D) To glorify his rule through the sponsorship of artworks