AP Test MC Review (Unit 4)

Which of the following was true only of the Western European empires among all the
early modern empires?

• They were the largest empires in the world.
• They spread diseases to which conquered peoples had little immunity.
• They were initiated by maritime expansion.
• They were created by merchants rather than governments.

The racial system of which of the following regions was characterized by less racial
mixing and less willingness to recognize the offspring of interracial unions than occurred
in the other regions?

• Brazil
• British North America
• The Caribbean
• Mexico

Which of the following is a reason why Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain were the first
to expand into the New World?

• These lands had a long tradition of distant exploration.
• These lands were Muslim.
• These lands were on the Atlantic coast.
• These lands believed in ancient legends of a lost world across the ocean.

Why did some Native Americans aid the Spanish in their initial invasion of the New
World?

• A desire to learn about European culture
• A shared Christian faith
• No Native Americans helped the Spanish.
• To gain an advantage against their own enemies

The Spanish Empire in former Aztec and Inca lands

• relied primarily on the import of African slaves for labor.
• failed to set up an elaborate administrative bureaucracy.
• possessed an economy based on commercial agriculture and mining.
• possessed strict social boundaries between races which made mixed race people rare.

What happened to Native Americans’ religious beliefs in Mesoamerica and Peru when
confronted with Catholicism?

• They rejected Catholicism completely.
• They blended their old customs easily into Catholic practices.
• They only pretended to be Catholic when Europeans were around.
• They completely abandoned their old religions, and embraced Catholicism entirely.

Which of the following statements about the systems of slavery in Brazil and British
North America is true?

• The importation of slaves ended earlier in Brazil than in North America.
• More slaves were voluntarily set free by their owners in Brazil than in North America.
• Slaves in Brazil had longer working lives on average and became self-reproducing after
  1750.
• Only slaves in North America worked on plantations.

The British colonies and the Portuguese/Spanish colonies in the Americas differed in that

• more mixed-race families emerged in the British colonies.
• Spanish colonists were far more numerous than British colonists.
• the British colonists sought to escape European traditions, while Spanish/Portuguese
  colonists sought to recreate them in the Americas.
• the British colonization began a full 100 years before the Spanish/Portuguese
  colonization.

What is one major reason for the higher literacy rates in British colonies than in
Spanish/Portuguese colonies?

• Protestantism, which encouraged the reading of the Bible, was the dominant form of
  Christianity in the British colonies.
• Paper was harder to maintain in the warm, humid Spanish/Portuguese colonies.
• The British government invested massive funds into building libraries throughout North
  America.
• Spanish/Portuguese colonizers did not attempt to teach Native Americans to speak or
  read Spanish/Portuguese.

Which of the following was a feature of China’s rule over its newly acquired Central
Asian territories that made the region more a part of an empire rather than an integral part
of the Chinese state?

• A massive inflow of Chinese settlers
• A concerted effort to assimilate the local populations into Chinese society
• Genocide
• The creation of a new office called the Court of Colonial Affairs