AP Modern World History Chapter 5 Quiz

Which of the following was a reason Russia expanded beginning in the sixteenth century?

• to monopolize the spice trade

• to control the Silk Roads

• to gain access to gunpowder weapons

• to secure its borders from attack

Which of the following was a reason that Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain were the first to expand into the New World?

• They had a long tradition of exploring distant lands by boat

• Their lands lacked iron, which drove them to search for deposits

• They believed in ancient legends of a lost world across the ocean

• They were on the Atlantic coast and were closer to the Americas

Which of the following highlights the intersection between the Little Ice Age and the phenomenon scholars term the General Crisis?

• the re-emergence of land bridges led to the age of mass migration

• Efforts to predict the weather led to an overturning of established truths

• The inability of shamans to control the weather discredited popular religions

• Climatic changes exacerbated conditions that led to popular unrest

How did many Native Americans in Mesoamerica and Peru respond to Spanish missionaries' efforts to covert them to Catholicism?

• They rejected Catholicism completely and maintained their local cultures

• They abandoned their old religions and embraced Catholicism entirely

• They only pretended to be Catholic when Europeans were around

• They blended their old customs into Catholic practices

Which of the following describes a feature of Qing China's policy toward its possessions in Central Asia?

• The imposition of a special tax on Muslims

• A massive migration of Chinese settlers into the area

• Respect for the different cultures of the region

• Assimilation of the local populations into Chinese society

Which of the following distinguished the empires of Western Europe from other empires?

• They were initiated by maritime expansion

• They spread diseases to conquered peoples

• They were accompanied by religious conversion of conquered peoples

• They were created by merchants

Which of the following was an outcome of the establishment of European empires in the Americas?

• The emergence of an Atlantic world connecting four continents

• A shift in the global balance of power in favor of Russia

• The spread of smallpox from the Americas to Eurasia

• A sharp decline in population in Europe and Asia

In the conflict between the Islamic and Christian worlds, which event in the fifteenth century signaled that the Islamic world held the upper hand?

• The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

• The reconquista and its aftermath

• The Treaty of Nerchinsk

• The Treaty of Tordesillas

The addition of Mongolia, Zinjiang, and Tibet to the Chinese empire during the Qing dynasty led to _________

• border skirmishes with the Russian Empire

• the permanent end of the tribute system

• the creation of the Court of Colonial Affairs

• border skirmishes with the Mughal Empire

Which of the following describes what happened to the native population of the steppes and Siberia as a consequence of Russian imperial expansion?

• Enslavement

• Assimilation

• Resettlement

• Genocide