AP World History Semester Exam Review Units 1-5

From the founding of each religion, Christians and Muslims shared a belief in

• the legal equality of men and women

• the principle of separation of church and state

• a single omnipotent deity

• equality of opportunity

In the period 1200 CE to 1450 CE, states in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam had which of the following in common?

• All successfully excluded European merchants.

• All were conquered by the Mongols.

• All were culturally influenced by China.

• All rejected both Buddhism and Christianity.

Which of the following was most responsible for the initial spread of Islam to West Africa?

• Soldiers who fought on behalf of the Abbasid caliphate

• Muslims fleeing persecution on the Iberian peninsula

• Merchants on the trans-Saharan trade routes

• Officials in Sudanese empires

Under the Japanese system of feudalism after 1600, the emperor served as the symbol of authority while real power was held by

• the shogun

• the crown prince

• powerful merchants

• Shinto priests

Which of the following accurately describes the Mongol Empire’s role in facilitating trans-Eurasian trade?

• It created a self-contained economic system by banning non-Mongol merchants from its territories.

• It reestablished the Silk Roads between East Asia and Europe.

• It developed a sophisticated bureaucracy staffed by talented Mongols.

• It imposed Mongol religious beliefs and practices on conquered peoples.

The Delhi sultans were

• able to unite all of India for the first time since the earliest empires

• able to make Islam the main religion of India

• never able to expand their control beyond northern India

During their time as rulers in China

• the Mongols strengthened the Chinese educational and examination system

• made tremendous use of native Chinese administrators

• encouraged intermarriage between Mongols and Chinese

• forbade the Chinese from learning the Mongol language

In the LONG RUN the Columbian Exchange

• brought lasting decline in population because of the ravages of diseases such as smallpox

• had very little influence of world population figures

• increased world population because of the spread of new food crops

• led to economic instability because of the large supply of

  Chinese silver

To provide labor for their sugar plantations in Brazil, the Portuguese

• copied the Spanish encomiendas

• made extensive use of indentured servants

• copied the Spanish repartimiento system

• relied upon imported African slaves as laborers

During the period 1600—1800, the leaders of China, Korea,

and Japan all had policies that

• regulated interactions with foreigners

• opened their countries to European merchants

• encouraged emigration and colonization