AP World History Unit 3 Review Flashcards 2025

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From 1400 to 1750, why did Eurasian rulers sponsor the arts?

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To display power and legitimize their rule

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What factor contributed most directly to the Mughal Empire’s territorial expansion in South Asia?

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The Mughals’ adoption and effective use of gunpowder weapons

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“The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only God’s lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God’s throne, but even by God himself are called gods. In the Scriptures kings are called gods, and so their power after a certain relation compared to the divine power.” King James I, speech to Parliament, England, 1610 The passage above is best understood in the context of which of the following?

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European monarchs’ continued use of religion to legitimize political authority

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The photograph above of a sixteenth-century Mughal mosque in India built by Akbar is an example of which of the following?

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Cultural syncretism

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Between 1450 and 1750, what did empires such as the Ottoman and Chinese share?

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The use of a large bureaucracy to support the government

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The image shows Ottoman officials forcibly enlisting boys from the empire’s Christian subjects in the Balkans to train them for service in the Ottoman army and bureaucracy.
The recruitment depicted in the image is best understood in the context of which of the following developments in the period 1450–1750?

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Attempts by imperial states to centralize their authority

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What could most reasonably be concluded from the sermon: “It is most evident that kings, queens, and other princes . . . are ordained of God, are to be obeyed and honored by their subjects; that such subjects as are disobedient or rebellious against their princes, disobey God.” An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion, Church of England, 1570?

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Rulers often used religious ideas and institutions to justify their rule.

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This land based empire took over Constantinople or the Byzantine capital in 1453 under Mehmet II.

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Ottoman Empire

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______________started to print Bibles and people started to read the over 200 Bibles that he printed.

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Gutenberg

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______________was excommunicated after he criticized the Roman Catholic Churches sale of Indulgences. He nailed his 95 thesis or criticisms to Wittenberg Cathedral.

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Martin Luther