AP World History Period 3 Review

What did the advancement of Islam into the former Persian Empire and the diffusion of Buddhism into China have in common?

• Both religions could not overcome traditional views of women in these areas

• Both led to the formation of new political states

• Both religions found converts particularly among the upper class

• Both religions were rejected by the states into which they spread

Which of the following developments in belief systems limited the role of women on society the most between 600 and 1450 C.E.?

• the split between Orthodox and Catholic Christianity in Europe

• the spread of the Umayyad Caliphate

• the merging of different Asian belief systems into Neo-Confucianism

• the rise of Zen Buddhism in Japan

Which of the following was an important continuity in the social structure of states and empires in the period 600 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.?

• Peasants were generally free of obligations to the state

• Wealthy merchants dominated political institutions

• Landholding aristocracies tended to be the dominant class

• Urban craft workers played a substantial role in government

Which of the following was an important long-term demographic impact of the spread of new rice varieties in East Asia during the period 600 C.E. to 1200 C.E.?

• A decrease in the size of East Asian cities outside the rice-growing areas

• The large-scale settlement of nomadic central Asians into farming communities

• A rapid increase of East Asian populations

• The movement of large numbers of East Asians from cities to farms

In the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E. merchant diasporic communities, such as those of Muslims in India, Chinese in Southeast Asia, and Jews in the Mediterranean, had which of the following in common?

• They generally imposed their own languages on the local communities.

• They generally became military outposts that facilitated the expansion of empires

• They generally lost touch with their homelands and merged with the local population

• They generally introduced their own cultural practices into the local cultures.

The Mongol conquests of much of Eurasia in the thirteenth century tended to encourage trade along the Silk Roads primarily by

• Opening large new markets for both European and East Asian goods in Central Asia

• increasing the demand for military supplies needed by the Mongol armies that occupied various regions

• decreasing the risk of bandit attacks and reducing the number of local rulers

• discouraging maritime trade along the Indian Ocean routes that competed with the Silk Roads.

Which of the following characterized the trans-Saharan trade by 1250 C.E.?

• the bulk of trade consisted of low-priced commodities

• Muslim merchants dominated the trade

• European Christians became directly involved in the trade

• Most trade was carried by horse rather than by people

Which of the following was a significant effect of the Polynesian migrations in the Pacific in the period from 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E.?

• The creation of an extensive trade network connecting Pacific islands to the Asian mainland

• The transfer of domesticated plant and animal species to new islands in the Pacific

• The development of distinctive Polynesian maritime technologies quickly adopted by Chinese and European explorers

• The establishment of an ethnically unified Polynesian state spanning several island groups.

Which of the following was an important continuity in the history of the Mediterranean region between 400 and 1000 C.E.?

• The religious makeup of the societies in the region remained virtually the same.

• The western Mediterranean remained politically unified, whereas the eastern Mediterranean remained politically fractured.

• The Byzantine Empire remained a centralized Christian Empire in the Mediterranean.

• The Sassanid Empire continued to keep its access to the eastern Mediterranean.

Which of the following was an immediate effect of the initial Muslim conquests of the 7th century C.E.?

• The elimination of Christianity and Judaism from the Middle East.

• The beginning of large-scale migration of Turkic-speaking nomads from Central Asia to the Middle East.

• The weakening of the Byzantine Empire and the collapse of other empires.

• A decline in the social status of women.