AP World Unit 2 Review

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.

What is the time period when a new civilization developed from a blend of Greek and Asian cultures called?

• Hellenistic Age
• Delian Age
• Peloponesian Age
• Golden Age

What did the caste system in India determine for an individual?

• military service

• wealth

• allegiance

• occupation

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

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

Shi Huangdi used hundreds of thousands of farmers to join together, strengthen, and complete _____________. 

• ziggurats
• canals
• Great Wall of China
• Buddhist Temples

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

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

After the Persian Wars which Greek City State became the most dominant?

• Athens

• Persia

• Sparta

• Delos

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