ap world test #2 multiple choice questions
The passage could best be used to explain which of the following developments in Americas in the period 1500-1750?
Enslaved peoples and their descendants used violent means to escape oppression and maintain their freedom.
Which of the following conclusions regarding the Ottoman Empire is best supported by the passage
Ottoman policies sought to limit the activities of some religious groups.
A likely purpose for including the religious figure in the plaque was to show that
Portuguese naval activities in the Indian Ocean region were favored by divine forces
What similar view of Dofia Marina is portrayed in both images?
She is portrayed as an essential part of the negotiations.
Which of the following claims made in the second paragraph would a historian likely cite to demonstrate how European expansion created a truly global economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
The Chinese emperor could build a palace from all the silver that arrives from
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 ?
The collection of tribute
Which of the following most strongly contributed to the shift of power from nomadic empires to settled states that Darwin identifies in the second paragraph?
The development and spread of gunpowder weapons across Eurasia
Which of the following developments in the late fifteenth century could best be used as evidence to support Darwin's argument in the second paragraph regarding a change in patterns of long-distance trade?
The discovery of maritime routes that linked Europe and Asia through the Indian Ocean
Which of the following most directly led to the arrival of substantial numbers of Africans in the Americas at the time of the painting?
The expansion of the plantation system for growing sugarcane and other crops
The process described by McNeill in the passage is most closely following in the same period?
The growth of the transatlantic slave trade
The historical trend represented by the table is most similar to which of the following?
The impact of the Columbian Exchange on American populations, in the 16th century
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.
The actions of the Maroons that forced British colonial authorities to conclude a treaty with them are best explained as evidence of reactions against which of the following global trends in the period 1450-1750?
The increasing expansion and centralization of state power
The author's claim that the Spanish inhabitants of Manila act as agents for the inhabitants of Mexico can best be described as a reference to which of the following?
The mercantilist trade regulations enforced by Spanish colonial authorities
Which of the following best explains the overall population trend shown in the table?
The spread of epidemic diseases as a result of contact with Westerners
The material used to create the plaque best reflects which of the following historical situations in the Indian Ocean region in the period 1450-1750?
Trade networks continued to flourish and gave Europeans direct access to precious luxury goods.
Which of the following best explains Europe's ability to gain a greater share of global trade in the early modern period?
Adoption and improvement of maritime technologies by Europeans
Which of the following best illustrates the argument described in the passage above?
Amerindians were killed in large numbers by diseases such as smallpox and measles.
The recruitment depicted in the image is best understood in the context of which of the following developments in the period 1450-1750 ?
Attempts by imperial states to centralize their authority
Which of the following best explains why the painting was seen as a challenge to social conventions when it was painted?
Caribbean society was built on racial hierarchies that generally reserved elite status for people of European ancestry.
Some historians have argued that the growth of European influence in the period 1450 1750 was due in large part to non-European inventions. Based on your knowledge of world history, which of the following technological developments best supports this
Compass
The photograph above of a sixteenth-century Mughal mosque in India built by Akbar is an example of which of the following?
Cultural syncretism
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
The author's position on the religious controversy in the passage can best be described as that of
an impartial observer describing the controversy without taking sides
Based on the location of the painting, it can be inferred that its primary purpose was to
bolster the legitimacy of the Golkonda dynasty by celebrating its past
The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by
increased production of cash crops like sugar
