AP World History Modern: Topic 1.1 and 1.2 Quiz

“Emperor Zhengzong, being deeply concerned with agriculture, came to know that the Champa rice was drought resistant and that the green lentils of India were famous for their heavy yield and large seeds. Special envoys, bringing precious things, were dispatched with a view to securing these varieties.... When the first harvests were reaped in the autumn, the emperor called his closest ministers to taste them and compose poems for Champa rice and Indian green lentils.” -Shu Wenying, Buddhist monk, China, eleventh century C.E.

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

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Which of the following is NOT true about the Song Dynasty?

• The Song Dynasty improved agricultural methods and tools which led to population growth

• The goods and money collected through the tributary system created stability and stimulated trade

• The Song Dynasty reduced taxes paid by citizens and instead paid citizens to work on public projects

• China's proto industrialization was very similar to Europes, because China created large factories to produce goods

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The scholar gentry was a new social class in China that

• was more wealthy than the aristocracy.

• was uneducated but owned land.

• were educated in Confucian philosophy and outnumbered the aristocracy.

• were similar in almost every way to the peasant social class.

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“When walking, don’t turn your head; when talking, don’t open your mouth wide; when sitting, don’t move your knees; when standing, don’t rustle your skirts; when happy, don’t exult with loud laughter; when angry, don’t raise your voice. The inner and outer quarters are each distinct; the sexes should be segregated.” -Song Ruzhou, female scholar, “Analects for Women” (ca. late 8th century)

Which of the following trends in Chinese history would corroborate the sentiments of the above passage?

• 1. An increase in foot-binding among women of the upper classes

• The rising influence of Zen Buddhist traditions from Japan

• An increase in female musicians and poets during the Song Dynasty

• The rule of Empress Wu Zhou indicated the increasing power of women

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“When walking, don’t turn your head; when talking, don’t open your mouth wide; when sitting, don’t move your knees; when standing, don’t rustle your skirts; when happy, don’t exult with loud laughter; when angry, don’t raise your voice. The inner and outer quarters are each distinct; the sexes should be segregated.” -Song Ruzhou, female scholar,“Analects for Women” (ca. late 8th century)

Which of the following philosophies/religions provides historical context for the above excerpt?

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Confucianism

• Buddhism

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“My father moved to Bukhara [in Central Asia] and was entrusted with governing one of the estates of a Persian ruler. My father provided me with a teacher to study the Qur’an and a teacher for literature. My father was influenced by Shi‘a propaganda, and he would appeal to me to accept it, but my soul would not. In my household, there was also talk of philosophy, geometry, and Indian calculation,1 and my father sent me to a vegetable seller who used Indian calculation and so I studied with him.

Around that time my father hired an Arab scholar to teach me philosophy. I learned about Aristotle. I read the Greek geometrician Euclid and read the Greek astronomical and mathematical treatise called the Almagest. I devoted myself to studying the texts—the Greek original and the Muslim commentaries—in the natural sciences and metaphysics.

Next I sought to know medicine and so I read books on it. I excelled in a very short period of time so that distinguished physicians began to study the science of medicine under me.”

Abu Ali ibn Sina, Sunni intellectual and physician, autobiography, early eleventh century

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The translations and works of Muslim scholars such as Ibn Sina became influential in Europe in the period before 1450 most directly as a result of

• the flourishing of trading cities along the Silk Roads in Central Asia

• political fragmentation and decentralization in medieval Europe

• cultural exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the Mediterranean region

• the fall of Constantinople to the expanding Ottoman Empire

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What was the significance of the Battle of Tours?

• With the loss to the Franks, it marked the end of rapid Islamic expansion.

• It solidified the hold that the Islamic empires had on Spain

• This was the start of the conflicts between Christians and Muslims

• It began a massive civil war in all of the Islamic regions

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Which of the following was NOT exempt from slavery in the Islamic empires?

• Jews

• Christians

• Shi’a Muslims

• Buddhists

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“The numerous suburbs, covered with parks, gardens, villas and beautiful promenades, and plentifully supplied with rich bazaars, and finely built mosques and baths, stretched for a considerable distance on both sides of the river. In the days of its prosperity the population of Baghdad and its suburbs amounted to over two million!”

             -Arab historian and biographer, Yakut al-Hamawi, ca. 1000 CE discussing Baghdad during the Abbasid Dynasty

Which of the following is a conclusion that can be drawn when considering the passage above?

• Yakut is not a reliable source on Baghdad due to the imprecise dates

• Baghdad had a rich economy that supported a large population

• Baghdad was taken over by the Ottoman Turks during the 1200s

• The city became too large to control, which led to warfare and strife

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“The numerous suburbs, covered with parks, gardens, villas and beautiful promenades, and plentifully supplied with rich bazaars, and finely built mosques and baths, stretched for a considerable distance on both sides of the river. In the days of its prosperity the population of Baghdad and its suburbs amounted to over two million!”

   -Arab historian and biographer, Yakut al-Hamawi, ca. 1000 CE discussing Baghdad during the Abbasid Dynasty

What is the historical context for the above excerpt?

• The Abbasid state spent much of its time conquering other states rather than on urban growth.

• Europeans were a dominant culture in the Middle East during the period ca. 1000 – 1500 CE.

• 1. The caliphate of Cordoba was the most dominant Islamic caliphate of the post-classical age.

• The urbanization of the Abbasid state was likely due to its control of the Middle East and trade routes.

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