AP World History #4

Which of the following is an important legacy of the Phoenicians?

• (A) Their monotheistic beliefs inspired Judeo-Christian religion.
• (B) Their establishment of a centralized bureaucratic state influenced the political structure of the Persian Empire.
• (C) Their development of an alphabetic writing system was adapted by the Greeks.
• (D) Their system of legal codification was adopted in its entirety by the Romans.

Which of the following was an important factor that helped the eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) survive while the western Roman Empire collapsed?

• (A)Its status as the headquarters of Roman Catholic Christianity gave it a social unity that helped it resist invaders.
• (A)It had a loyal army, a skilled bureaucracy, and great reserves of wealth based on agriculture.
• (A)It followed an expansionist foreign policy to conquer northern European lands held by the Germanic tribes.
• (A)It could rely on its defensive alliance with the Persian Empire for protection against European invaders.

The sixth-century C.E. statue complex shown in this photograph, found in China, is an example of

• (A)Religious conflict
• (A)Reverence for ancestors
• (A)The wealth and power of the emperor
• (A)Cross-cultural interaction

“If a [noble] man puts out the eye of another [noble] man, his eye shall be put out.   “If he breaks another [noble] man’s bone, his bone shall be broken.   “If he puts out the eye of a man’s slave or breaks the bone of a man’s slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.”   The excerpt above from the Code of Hammurabi illustrates which of the following about Babylonian society?

• (A) It made provision for the economic well-being of all classes.
• (B) It supported gender equality.
• (C) It moved away from reliance on corporal punishment.
• (D) It was marked by social inequalities.

Which of the following correctly lists the countries to which Buddhism spread from India, in chronological order from earliest to latest?

• (A) Korea, Japan, Cambodia
• (B) Vietnam, China, Japan
• (C) China, Korea, Japan
• (D) China, Japan, Cambodia

Which of the following contributed significantly to the fall of both western Roman and Han empires?

• (A)The destruction of overland trade routes
• (A)A series of devastating floods and earthquakes
• (A)New military technologies
• (A)Invasions by borderland peoples

This graph concerning European population from 1000 to 1600 shows the effect of which of the following?

• (A)The fall of the Roman Empire on population growth
• (A)The Agricultural Revolution on food supplies
• (A)Plague on the population of Europe
• (A)The fall of the Byzantine Empire on population growth

Which of the following most accurately describes the political structure of the Maya from 600 CE to 900 CE?

• (A) Numerous independent, warring city-states
• (B)A highly centralized, aggressively expansionist empire
• (C)Several weak vassal kingdoms under Aztec domination
• (D)Numerous small coastal villages dependent upon maritime trade

Which of the following describes a major effect of Bantu migrations?

• (A)A single common religion in sub-Saharan Africa
• (A)The diffusion of irrigation techniques to East Africa
• (A)Cultural commonalities in sub-Saharan Africa
• (A)The introduction of banana cultivation to the Sahel

The adoption of Neoconfucianism by the Ming dynasty during the fourteenth century was primarily motivated by the

• (A)Rejection of traditional Chinese thinkers
• (A)Need for competent government administrators
• (A)Desire to continue Mongol practices in China
• (A)Arrival of Jesuit missionaries in China