AP World History Modern Midterm Review (19-20)

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 invaded India in the 320s B.C.E.?

• the Mongols

• the Huns

• Chandragupta Maurya

• Alexander the Great

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 West Africa during the Mali empire and an important center of Islamic learning?

• Cairo

• Timbuktu

• Kilwa

• Mogadishu

In its opposition to Buddhism, what was the great strength of Confucianism?

• It had close ties to the state bureaucracy

• It appealed to the Chinese love of nature

• It had developed ties to Daoism

• It always had a monopoly on imperial patronage

Under the early Ming dynasty, the greatest threat to Chinese sovereignty came from _______.

• Japan

• Dutch traders

• Portuguese traders

• the Mongols

Where did the Renaissance begin?

• Italy
• France
• England
• Germany

The Byzantine Empire was a __________ meaning there was no separation between the church and the state

• democrcacy

• theocracy

• aristocracy

• monarchy