AP World History Midterm Review

Which of the following are the states that dominated the Mediterranean trade during the sixteenth century?

• (A)Italian city-states and the Ottoman Empire
• (A)The Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire
• (A)Spain and Portugal
• (A)The Hapsburg Empire and France 

Which of these were seafaring people that dominated the Mediterranean from about 1000 B.C.E.?

• Egyptians

• Phoenicians

• Minoans

• Mycenaeans

Which of these was the chief rival for Confucian philosophy in the Qin and Han eras?

• Legalism

• Mencius

• Xunzi

• Daoism

Which of these invaded India in the 320s B.C.E.?

• the Mongols

• the Huns

• Chandragupta Maurya

• Alexander the Great

Chandragupta founded the ________ Empire around 300 B.C.E.

• Gupta

• Mauryan

• Delhi

• Mongol

Which of these men established the Persian Empire?

• Pericles

• Philip II

• Cyrus the Great

• Aristophanes

The capital of the eastern Roman Empire, and then the Byzantine Empire, was ______.

• Rome

• Constantinople

• Damascus

• Athens

Which of these refers to Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina?

• mawali

• umma

• hijra

• hajj

Which of these was a great trading city of the Sudan and an important center of Islamic learning?

• Cairo

• Timbuktu

• Kilwa

• Mogadishu

Like the pre-Columbian Andean societies, _______ was the key unifying factor in African stateless societies.

• commerce

• secret societies

• kinship

• religion