AP Test MC Review (Unit 3)

Which of the following is true of the Silk Roads?

• (A) The Silk Roads linked the entire world into a single trade network.
• (B) The Silk Roads linked the large civilizations on the outer rim of the Eurasian continent
  but bypassed the pastoral peoples of the interior.
• (C) The Silk Roads were largely a relay trade route, in which goods were passed down the
  line rather than carried by one merchant along the entire route.
• (D) Although important, the Silk Roads never carried as large a volume of long-distance trade
  as the American networks.

The exchange of diseases along the Silk Roads

• (A) while at times deadly to both agricultural and pastoral peoples, did not alter the balance
  between these two peoples in Eurasia.
• (B) dramatically weakened the Christian church in the Byzantine Empire as followers
  abandoned what they perceived as an uncaring God.
• (C) ultimately gave Western Europeans an advantage when they confronted peoples of the
  Western hemisphere after 1500 who had not been exposed to the diseases of the Silk
  Roads.
• (D) resulted in Chinese officials seeking to suppress long-distance trade.

In contrast to the Silk Roads, the Sea Roads of the Indian Ocean

• (A) carried more products for a mass market rather than just luxury goods.
• (B) had much higher transportation costs because ships cost so much more than camels.
• (C) did not include China in the network.
• (D) were centered on the ports of East Africa.

Which of the following luxury goods came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange system?

• (A) silk
• (B) porcelain
• (C) nutmeg
• (D) glassware

Buddhism became an important faith in

• (A) West Africa.
• (B) the Swahili coast of East Africa.
• (C) Greece.
• (D) Central Asia.

The emergence of the Silk Roads was facilitated by

• (A) the collapse of the Indian Ocean trade network.
• (B) the expansion of China into Central Asia during the Han dynasty in an effort to control
  the nomadic Xiongnu.
• (C) the emergence of the Swahili civilization, which provided security for merchants and
  travelers along the eastern stretches of the Silk Roads.
• (D) the collapse of the Sand Roads trade network.

Swahili civilization was most heavily influenced by which of the following cultures?

• (A) Chinese
• (B) Indian
• (C) Bantu
• (D) European

Despite other difficulties, long-distance trade in the Americas was facilitated by

• (A) wheeled vehicles.
• (B) the spread of the Chavín cult from the Andean region to Mesoamerica.
• (C) the isthmus of Panama.
• (D) the pochteca, a professional Aztec merchant class who undertook large scale trading
  expeditions beyond the borders of the empire.

In which third-wave civilization did the state largely control trade, not allowing a
professional merchant class to emerge?

• (A) China
• (B) Inca
• (C) Aztec
• (D) Great Zimbabwe

Mesoamerica and the Andes

• (A) ran similar regional economies controlled by the state, which tried to suppress all private
  merchant activity.
• (B) were in close contact, creating by far the largest and most important long-distance trade
  network in the Americas.
• (C) had little to trade with each other, because both regions grew the same crops and had the
  same resources.
• (D) seem to have had little direct contact with each other.