AP WH Unit 2 Test Review

This invention helped to spur on trade and enabled cultural diffusion. What element of culture was diffused through the Trans-Saharan trade route.

• Camel Saddle

• Lateen Sail

• Islam

• Printing press

Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Which device is an example of this?

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Long-distance communication & exchange along land & water-based trade routes was facilitated by all EXCEPT what?

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Safe travel was only accomplished throughout the Silk Road because of?

• Agreement between empires

• Treaties

• Mongol Conquest

• Free trade agreements

Silver, gems, and gold went from ________ ; silk, paper, gunpowder, and diseases went from ________.

• Americas/Europe

• China/Europe

• Europe/China

• Europe/Americas

Examples of China’s continued tradition of scientific and technological innovations are all of the following except?

• concrete

• gun powder

• paper

• compass

The massive increase in population around 900 CE. was caused mainly because of what?

• Increased in technological inventions

• Conquest

• increased food production

• increase in societal wealth

The spread of Islam was mainly facilitated by what?

• Necessity

• Curiosity  

• Trade

• Missionaries

Islam spread most in what region?

• Southwest Asia

• Southeast Asia

• Europe

• Americas

All trade and trade routes were only possible because of what?

• calm seas

• technological innovations

• A singular empire holding control

• well maintained roads