H3 TEST 2 FALL 2020

Base your answer to the question on the passage and on your knowledge of social studies.

..."Then I must remain loyal to Lord Akiyama, regardless of what he does --- even if he is disloyal to Lord Takeda?" I asked.

"Certainly!" There was no shade of doubt in Kansuke's reply. "Your lord is like your father, you must follow him wherever he leads, even into death, to the road to the west." ....

Source: Erik Christian Haugaard, The Samurai's Tale,

Houghton Mifflin

A historian could best use this passage to study social values during which of the following?

• European Middle Ages

• Meiji Restoration

• Tokugawa Shogunate

• Han Dynasty

Which factors helped cause the defeat of Napoleon during his invasion of Russia?

• the severe winters and large size of Russia

• the many rivers and mountains of Russia

• the coalition between the Russian czar and the democratic leaders

• the well-trained and well-supplied Russian army

One way in which Suleiman the Magnificent and Akbar the Great are similar is that they both brought about periods of

• political stability and religious tolerance

• religious conquest and persecution

• isolationism and cultural stagnation

• modernization and political disunity

Which statement about government during the Tokugawa period in Japan is most accurate?

• The power of the emperor was absolute and supreme.

• The real power was held by foreign countries.

• Actual power was held by the shogun.

• Political power was in the hands of the merchant class.

Base your answer on the map and on your knowledge of social studies.

Source: The Nystrom Atlas of World History, Herff Jones Education Division (adapted)

This map shows that at the height of the Ottoman Empire, the empire

• controlled the port cities of Barcelona and Marseille

• governed the Persian Empire

• included territory in Europe, Africa, and Asia

• completely surrounded the Red Sea

Base your answer to the question on the diagram and on your knowledge of social studies.

A historian could best use this diagram to study which of the following?

• Japanese feudalism

• Chinese Confucianism

• Egyptian Social Hirearchy

• Hindu caste system

For which achievement is Suleiman the Magnificent best known?

• building the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

• spreading Christianity into the Balkan Peninsula

• conquering the Russian capital of Moscow

• uniting the Ottoman Empire under an efficient government structure

Base your answer to the question on the map, and on your knowledge of social studies.

Source: Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis and Anthony Esler, World History: Connections to Today, Prentice Hall (adapted)

Which generalization is best supported by the information in this map?

• The Ottoman Empire controlled the largest amount of territory by 1453.

• The Safavid Empire controlled parts of western Europe by 1629.

• By the 1500s, the Ottoman Empire controlled parts of the Middle East, North Africa, and eastern Europe.

• The Mediterranean Sea served as a cultural barrier between Asia Minor and North Africa.

Base your answer to the question on the passage and on your knowledge of social studies.

It would be wrong to call the Ottoman Empire a purely Islamic state. It was not. It was a state that claimed some kind of an attachment, some kind of allegiance to Islam, but combined it with other forms of heritage from the Byzantine tradition or from the Turkic tradition that did not really correspond to Islam. So they always had this very, very pragmatic approach to Islam.

— Professor Edhem Eldem, Bogazici University, NPR News, All Things Considered, August 18, 2004

This author is suggesting that during the Ottoman Empire

• religion was mingled with historic traditions

• most people belonged to minority religions

• rulers tried to separate politics from religion

• rulers operated under a strict set of laws

One way in which Akbar the Great and Suleiman the Magnificent are similar is that they

• attempted to colonize the Americas

• supported democratic reforms in their countries

• tried to make Christianity the dominant religion of Asia

• controlled large empires at the height of their power