AP World History Modern Review

Which is not an example of a way that China influenced other nations in East Asia between 1200 and 1450?

• Civil Service Examination System
• Written language and technologies
• Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism
• Spread of Islam

Which two religions had spread to Africa through missions and trade by the 1450? (select both)

• Buddhism
• Islam
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Sikhism

What is an example of an American empire that formed before European contact in the 15th century?

• Hausa Kingdoms
• Khmer Empire
• Inca Empire
• Abbasid Caliphate

What were two characteristics of Europe around 1200? (choose both)

• small feudal kingdoms
• manorial system
• large unified empires
• African slave trade

What was an effect of increased trade along the Silk Roads?

• European demand for Asian goods
• Transportation technologies
• Rise of new trading cities (Kashgar, Samarkand)
• Decline in sea travel

What was a significant result of Mongol conquest and rule in Eurasia in the 13th and 14th centuries?

• Expanded trade along the Silk Roads
• Exchange of cultural ideas
• Transmission of the bubonic plague
• Only A and B
• All answers are correct

What was an environmental effect of increased connectivity through trade from 1200-1450?

• Spread of religions
• Development of new technologies
• Writings of travelers like Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta
• Diffusion of crops like bananas and champa rice

Which technological advancement enabled new land-based empires to form between 1450 and 1750?

• gunpower weapons
• religious unity
• centralized government
• factory system

Which was not a method used by rulers to legitimize and consolidate their power in land-based empires from 1450-1750?

• bureaucratic elites
• female laborers
• military professionals
• religious ideas
• art and monumental architecture

What was one way that belief systems changed in Afro-Eurasia from 1450-1750?

• Enlightenment ideas
• New Age religions
• Bhakti Movement
• Protestant Reformation