AP Final Review

Which of the following best explains the relative volume of trade to different destinations as shown on the map?

• The need for labor in new mining centers

• The traditional use of enslaved soldiers by the Ottoman Empire

• The increasing demand for labor on cash crop plantations

• The growing desire for household servants among emerging commercial elites

All of the following were significant environmental effects of the trade illustrated on the map EXCEPT

• the spread of Afro-Eurasian diseases in the Americas

• soil depletion and erosion from intensive agriculture in the Caribbean

• American foods becoming staple crops in Africa

• air pollution resulting from the increased exploitation of fossil fuels

Which of the following best describes the impact on African society of the trade depicted on the map?

• Gender and family roles were restructured as the male population in West Africa diminished

• Bantu peoples increasing migrated southwards and eastwards

• African societies became increasingly monotheistic as they adopted Islam

• African states underwent significant urbanization as rural agricultural populations diminished

The trade illustrated on the map contributed most directly to which of the following?

• The Glorious Revolution

• The French Revolution

• The Haitian Revolution

• The Cuban Revolution

Based on the passage, it could be inferred that the high prices of firewood in seventeenth-century Zacatecas were a result of which of the following processes?

• The global decrease in average temperatures after circa 1400 C.E.

• The depletion of natural resources c aused by Aztec chinampa farming

• The transfer of crops and pathogens during the Columbian Exchange

• The introduction of European practices of resource extraction

The economic activities described in the passage contributed most directly to which of the following?

• The emergence of the first truly global exchange networks

• The Beginning of the process of industrialization

• The establishment of the first chartered and limited-liability commercial companies

• The rapid growth of China's population under the Song and Ming dynasties

A historian could best use the passage as evidence for which of the following?

• The Spanish authorities preference for Spanish-born rather than American-born individuals in administrative appointments

• The resistance encountered in the process of attempting to convert the indigenous population to Christianity

• The creation of a new political and economic elite in the immediate aftermath of the European conquest

• The disappearance of the Amerindian population due to the spread of infectious Eurasian diseases

The ethnic makeup of Zacatecas, as described in the passage, can best be used as evidence of which of the following?

• The dependence of colonial economies on coerced labor

• The social tensions that gave rise to the Latin American wars of independence

• The development of indentured servitude as an alternative to slavery

• The emergence of syncretic religious belief systems, such as Santeria and Candomble

Based on the description of the discovery of silver in Zacatecas in the second paragraph,which of the following conclusions about Mota y Escobar is best supported?

• He had no firsthand knowledge of Mexico

• He was an opponent of the practice of slavery

• He was critical of the motivations of the Spanish conquistadors

• He questions the economic usefulness of silver mining

Dara Shikoh's intellectual collaborations as described in the passage are most consistent with which of the following policies of imperial states such as the Mughal Empire in the period 1450-1750 CE?

• Recruiting subject peoples for imperial expansion through military conscription

• Attempting to build support for imperial rule by accommodating religious and ethnic diversity

• Sponsoring the development of religious architecture to legitimize imperial rule

• Attempting to enforce imperial power by requiring cultural assimilation