AP World History Multiple Choice Questions

The image best supports which of the following claims regarding developments in the period from 1450 to 1750?

• European military technology was inferior to Asian military technology

• Rulers served as military commanders and typically led armies into battle themselves

• Gunpowder technology facilitated the expansion of land-based empires

• Religious divisions were not a significant source of military conflict

Which of the following developments in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries most directly helps to explain the presence of the scholars in China?

• The Inquisition led to the expulsion of enemies of the Catholic Church from Europe

• The Protestant Reformation led the Catholic Church to seek new converts outside of Europe

• The wars of religion led many to question the role of religion in European society

• The expansion of the Ottoman Empire in Europe led many to leave their homes as refugees

Which of the following accurately describes a significant difference between the Ottoman and Mughal Empires in the early seventeenth century?

• The Mughals practiced religious tolerance toward non-Muslim subjects, while the Ottomans did not

• The Ottomans ruled over people who were predominately Muslim, while the Mughals did not

• The Mughals used gunpowder weapons to expand their territory, while the Ottomans did not

• The Ottomans made Shia Islam the official state religion, while the Mughals made Buddhism the official state religion

The photograph above of a sixteenth-century Mughal mosque in India built by Akbar is an example of which of the following?

• Emergence of capitalist economies

• Expansion of coercive labor systems

• Creation of a global trade network

• Cultural syncretism

Which of the following most directly explains the importance of improved agricultural productivity to the industrialization of economic production period 1750–1900?

• Because the nutritional quality of food greatly improved, more people were able to sustain the long working hours that factory labor required.

• Because less labor was needed on farms, more people moved to urban areas to work in factories.

• Because farmers needed less land to produce the same amount of food, they could build textile factories on the excess land.

• Because greater quantities of food could be sold at higher prices, governments could tax farmers at higher rates and use those revenues to bu

Refer to the chart 'The Atlantic Slave Trade.' In the period 1500 to 1750, the population of the Portuguese colony of Brazil grew rapidly and became predominantly African. Which of the following best explains these demographic changes?

• The adoption of indigenous food crops by African migrants

• Portuguese loss of colonial holdings in the Indian Ocean

• The rapid natural increase of Brazil’s early slave population

• The increase in global demand for cash crops such as sugar

In the three centuries after Columbus’ voyages, most of the people who came to the Western Hemisphere originated in which of the following regions?

• Southern Europe

• Northern Europe

• Western Africa

• Eastern Africa

Which of the following was NOT an Enlightenment thinker?

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Adam Smith

• George Washington

The expansion of trade routes along the coast of Africa as shown on the map was most directly facilitated by which of the following?

• Expanding Chinese influence as a result of maritime voyages under the Ming dynasty

• Changes in fishing practices in the Indian Ocean

• Improved ship designs

• Commercial decline in Europe as a result of the global cooling of climate known as the Little Ice Age

Which of the following factors best explains why the Portuguese did not engage in direct trading relations with West African states until the fifteenth century?

• Lack of the necessary navigational and maritime technology

• Lack of European interest in African goods

• A prohibition on external trade by the Islamic states of North Africa

• Directives from the pope to limit Christian trade with Africa