Unit 1 World AP 10th grade

Which of the following made possible the Chinese cultivation of the staple crops described in the passage?

• The creation of new forms of governance in China during the Song dynasty

• The intensification of regional trade networks in East and South Asia

• The diffusion of Buddhism into China

• The creation of diasporic trade communities along the Silk Road

The activity depicted in Image 2 best illustrates which of the following characteristics of China’s economy before 1450 ?

• The influence of Confucian labor policies

• The impact of innovations borrowed from surrounding states

• The reliance on systems of peasant labor

• The dependence on trade along the Silk Roads

Based on the passage, which of the following most strongly influenced Dara Shikoh’s religious views?

• Shi'ism

• Sufism

• Buddhism

• Zoroastrianism

Which of the following earlier developments contributed most directly to the importance of the Asian market during the early modern period as described by both passages?

• The commercialization of the Chinese economy under the Song and Ming dynasties

• The conquest of India by Muslim Turks and Afghans

• The increased trade along the Silk Roads encouraged by the Mongol conquests in Eurasia

• The spread of Confucian ideas to areas of East and Southeast Asia outside China

Which of the following most likely explains why Muslims such as Ibn Sina would have been interested in studying the philosophical ideas discussed in the second paragraph?

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  The adoption of Greek ideas of republican and democratic governance shaped the early development of the Islamic caliphate.

• The use of observation and logic in studying the natural world was part of a Muslim intellectual tradition

• Muslim intellectuals were heavily influenced by polytheistic mystery religions.

• Greco-Roman concepts of rigid social and ethnic hierarchies heavily influenced the early Muslim community.

The sponsoring of scholarship by Turkic dynasties, such as the Timurids, best shows that, in the period circa 1200–1450, scholarly activities in the Muslim world continued despite the

• conquest of Baghdad by the European Crusaders

• expansion of the Song dynasty into Muslim Central Asia

• Byzantine reconquest of Palestine and Lebanon

• fragmentation of the Abbasid Caliphate

Muslim scholars’ incorporation of cultural and intellectual influences from pre-Islamic societies can best be used as evidence that

• most educated Muslims continued to speak European languages well into the fifteenth century

• European merchants had established trade outposts throughout Muslim Central Asia

• Muslim scientists rejected the contributions of scientists from other cultures as heretical

• Muslim states and empires were central to the processes of intellectual transfer in Eurasia

Muslim scientists in the period before 1450 c.e. generally participated in intellectual and scholarly exchanges with neighboring cultures by

• being the recipients of funding from foreign rulers

• serving strictly as copyists of earlier works that otherwise would have been lost

• expanding upon the legacy of earlier scientific works by conducting their own research

• learning from the superior scientific knowledge of medieval western European scientist

The excerpt above exemplifies the continued influence on eighteenth-century Japan of which of the following?

• The Christian tradition of children respecting their parents

• The Buddhist encouragement of female spirituality

• The Islamic practice of women appearing modestly in public

• The Confucian emphasis on filial submission

The two dynasties whose expansions are illustrated by the images shared which of the following?

• Their rulers claimed to be descended from the Mongol ruling family of Chinggis Khan

• Their rulers were recognized as caliphs by most Muslims

• Their rulers were descended from Turkic peoples of Central Asian descent

• Their rulers claimed power by virtue of protecting Dar al-Islam from European invasion