AP World History Unit 2 Test Review

Which of the following represents the best defining characteristic of an empire?

• A state that forms as a democratic republic but is eventually seized and ruled over by a single ruler

• A state formed through conquest and maintained through the extraction of resources from conquered states and peoples

• A single ethnic group with a single language, religion, and identity

• A conglomeration of independent states that form temporary alliances

The conquests of which leader contributed to the widespread dissemination of Greek culture during the Hellenistic era?

• Caesar Augustus
• Alexander the Great
• Ashoka
• Qin Shihuangdi

What did Buddhism and Christianity have in common?

• They both ultimately died out in the land of their birth as their ideas were absorbed into other religious traditions.
• Neither ever became an active missionary religion and did not spread widely beyond the region of their birth.
• They both started out as an effort to reform the religions from they which they had come, but soon emerged as separate religions.
• They were both associated with a particular people and territory.

Which cultural tradition is particularly noted for its emphasis on logic and relentless questioning of received wisdom, without giving much role to the gods?

• Confucian philosophy
• Greek philosophy
• Daoism
• Zoroastrianism

Which of the following best describes women’s status in the classical civilizations?

• Upper-class women had a tendency to live more restricted lives than lower-class women.

• Urban women in general experienced fewer restrictions compared to those living in pastoral societies.

• Public life in general was a male domain, while women’s roles took place mostly in domestic settings.

• Women in general experienced fewer restrictions as compared to those who lived in Neolithic agricultural village societies.

Which of the following had the weakest tradition of rule by monarchs?

• Athens
• Gupta Empire
• Persian Empire
• None of the above

Which of the following describes the Persian policy towards people with different cultural traditions who lived within the empire?

• Respect and tolerance for non-Persian traditions
• Forced assimilation to the Persian way of life
• Taxation of those who continued to practice non-Persian traditions
• Suppression and elimination of non-Persian traditions

What decides where you end up in the caste system in India?

• Karma
• Good Luck
• Bad Luck
• Faith

In this form of government religious leaders rule in the name of God.

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

Cultural diffusion is best described as...

• sharing music from one culture to another
• Cultural margarine
• the spreading of religion
• the spreading of ideas, languages, and traditions from one culture to another