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WorksheetsAp World History Final 2018
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 2hrs 50mins
The particular consequences invoked in the ritual curse in the treaty most strongly support which of the following statements about ancient Mesopotamia?
States’ legitimacy was based on claims to secular authority.
Ongoing environmental degradation occurred as a byproduct of the spread of pastoralism.
Maintaining and expanding agricultural production was seen as a core task of governments.
The domestication of plants occurred before the domestication of animals
A historian would most likely use this passage in the treaty to illustrate which of the following?
The precarious nature of early civilizations’ relationship to their physical environment.
The negative effect of overpopulation on urban sanitation and health
The emergence of social hierarchies supported by unequal distribution of surplus food
The nutritional deficiencies suffered by early agricultural populations
Which of the following was an important long-term effect of the expansion of the Assyrian Empire?
The diffusion of monotheistic religious beliefs to East Asia
The development of the Greek alphabet
The initial diffusion of advanced mathematical knowledge, such as algebra and trigonometry
The establishment of Jewish diasporic communities as a result of Assyrian military conquest
Compared to the regulations in the excerpt, Buddhist practices concerning gender roles in the period 600 c.e. to 600 b.c.e. differed in that they _______
Rejected the validity of marriage as an institution
Offered women and men the possibility of monastic life as an alternative to marriage
Gave the bride’s mother, rather than the father, the primary role in making marriage decisions
Asserted that only marriages based on the free choice of both spouses were valid
The views expressed in the excerpt are best seen as evidence of which of the following in Mauryan society?
The persistence of patriarchy
The absence of inter-caste marriages
The social acceptance of children born out of wedlock
The rulers’ lax enforcement of religious doctrine
Which of the following changes to Mauryan religious policy occurred under Chandragupta’s grandson, Emperor Ashoka?
The emergence of a syncretic Indo-Greek system of religious belief
The secularization of the Mauryan state
The promotion of Buddhist teachings through edicts by the ruler
The establishment of Islam as the dominant religion of northern India
According to the passage, Xunzi was advocating an approach to governance that most clearly reflected the principles of
Daoism
Legalism
Confucianism
Buddhism
Xunzi’s idealized vision of Chinese society in the passage differs most strongly from the social structure of which of the following?
Roman society during the late empire
Hindu society in South Asia during the Gupta Empire
Muslim society during the early Caliphates
Mongol society during the period of Mongol conquests
Ideas similar to those expressed in the passage have directly contributed to the development of which of the following aspects of later Chinese imperial history?
The long-standing tradition of Chinese leadership in technological, agricultural, and commercial innovation relative to the rest of the world
The expectation that emperors must be judged by a different set of ethical standards all other members of society
The virtual elimination of the threat of rebellion against established political authority
The practice of recruiting capable bureaucrats on the basis of educational achievement rather than noble birth
Which of the following best explains the overall demographic trend shown in the chart?
The spread of the bubonic plague by the Mongol invasions
Migrations to Christian population centers in the Mediterranean
Forced migration of populations by the Roman government
Invasions by Germanic and Central Asian peoples
Which of the following best describes the Roman response to the trend shown on the chart?
Shifting power and resources to the east, eventually resulting in the creation of the Byzantine Empire
Sponsoring the further development of commercial infrastructure, particularly roads
Adopting Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire, under the emperor Constantine
Building an elaborate system of fortifications along the northern frontier, such as Hadrian’s Wall
Which of the following emerged in western Europe after 500 c.e. in large part as a reaction to the changes illustrated by the chart?
The development of cash crop plantations relying on slave labor
The binding of peasants to the land as part of the development of feudal society
The shift from agriculture to nomadic pastoralism in most of western Europe
The development of self-governing professional guilds
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the data in Table 1
The Tang emperors’ legitimacy continued to be challenged in many parts of China.
The great majority of economic transactions in Tang China continued to be carried out through barter.
Long-distance trade resulted in the establishment of new cities and diasporic merchant communities.
Long-distance trade routes were active during the early Tang period, even as most trade in China remained local.
A historian researching the economic history of Eurasia in the period circa 600–1450 c.e. would most likely find the two tables useful as a source of information about which of the following?
The diffusion of cultural traditions along Eurasian trade routes.
The spread of technological innovations across regions in Eurasia.
The geographic extent of the monetization of Eurasian economies.
The extent to which government economic policies in Eurasia in the period 600–1450 represented a continuity of earlier policies.
The data presented in the two tables best support which of the following comparative statements about Tang China and Viking England?
Elites in Tang China were less wealthy than elites in Viking England.
Merchants stood at the top of the social hierarchies in both Tang China and Viking England.
Tang coins were typically of greater value than coins in Viking England.
Coinage was seen as a useful means of storing value in both Tang China and Viking England.
The events described in the passage represent a reaction against which of the following forms of coerced labor?
Slavery.
Military Conscription.
Indentured Servitude.
Serfdom.
English nobles resisted peasant demands such as those described in the passage because agricultural labor in many parts of fourteenth-century Afro-Eurasia had become scarce as a result of which of the following developments?
The migration of peasants to cities in search of industrial employment.
Significant increase in mortality due to the spread of epidemic diseases.
The development of wage-based economies with the emergence of capitalism.
Widespread famine resulting from rising global temperatures.
All of the following statements are factually accurate. Which most likely explains Froissart’s view of the peasants’ grievances discussed in the passage?
Even though he was French, Froissart traveled to England to collect information for his chronicles.
Peasant revolts were fairly common in medieval Europe.
History writing in medieval Europe was aimed primarily at elite audiences.
In addition to his chronicles, Froissart wrote a work of romance based on the legend of King Arthur.
The particular routes and timings of the voyages depicted on the maps best reflect which of the following characteristics of Omani merchants?
Their Islamic ritual observances, which made travel difficult during the fasting period of Ramadan
Their advanced knowledge of Indian Ocean currents and monsoon wind patterns
Their need to avoid the routes traveled by the faster and better-armed Portuguese trading ships
Their control of the sources of grain needed by Chinese and East African cities
Based on the maps and your knowledge of world history, which of the following best describes the effect of the spread of Islam on Indian Ocean trade?
It led to the expansion and intensification of commerce along already existing trade routes.
It led to the disappearance of previously established trade networks.
It led to an expansion of land-based caravan trade but also to a decline of maritime trade.
It led to the first creation of trade links between previously isolated world regions.
Which of the following factors contributed the most to Omani traders’ ability to undertake the voyages depicted on the maps?
The strong backing for the voyages by the Caliphate
Navigational and maritime innovations, such as the astrolabe and lateen sail
The spread of Arabic as the language of commerce in the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean basins
Innovations in agriculture, which allowed the Omani population to increase rapidly
Which of the following could be best inferred about the South and East Asian trading cities shown on the maps?
They were under the direct political control of Oman.
They had a majority Arab population.
hey had Muslim diasporic merchant communities.
They were primarily sources of slave labor for the Omanis.
Which of the following economic conditions was most important in creating the global trade network illustrated by the two diagrams?
American demand for labor and African supply of slaves
Japanese supply of silver and Middle Eastern demand for spices
Western European demand for industrial raw materials and American and South Asian supply of cash crops
Chinese and Indian demand for precious metals and European demand for Asian textiles and luxury goods
In the eighteenth century, which of the following contributed most directly to the change in the volume of silver trade on the Southern African route?
The development of new types of ships, such as the caravel and the carrack
The expanded activities of chartered and joint-stock companies
The conversion of the rulers of west African states to Christianity
The discovery of gold and diamonds in southern Africa
Which of the following was an important direct effect on Europe of the processes reflected in the diagrams?
The independence movements in Spanish and Portuguese colonies
The industrialization of parts of England, France, and Germany
The intensification of state rivalries over control of trade routes, leading to colonial wars
Religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants
Which of the following was an important continuity underlying the trade interactions illustrated by the two diagrams?
The resilience of the Chinese economy, despite the dynastic change from Ming to Qing
The industrial and commercial supremacy of Great Britain in western Europe
The widespread acceptance of the principles of free trade by most European and Asian governments
The ongoing expansion of Muslim empires, such as the Ottoman and the Safavid
The painting is best seen as evidence for which of the following?
The lasting impact of the spread of Christianity through Afro-Eurasia during the period of the late Roman Empire
The success of crusaders in spreading Christianity into East Africa
The emergence of syncretic religions as Islam spread through East Africa in the period after the Muslim conquests
The migration of Bantu peoples across Africa
The painting can best be used as evidence for which of the following world historical trends that took place during the period 1450 c.e. to 1750 c.e.?
The use of art to glorify rulers
The sponsorship of art by new elites
Governments using art to foster nationalism among their populations
The diffusion of African artistic traditions across Indian Ocean trade routes
Ethiopia’s cultural traditions reflected in the painting had which of the following effects on Ethiopia’s interactions with European colonial empires in the late nineteenth century?
They provided Ethiopians with an additional rationale for resisting European encroachment.
They created an opportunity for Ethiopia to participate in the European alliance system.
They strengthened Social Darwinist claims that Ethiopians were inferior to Europeans.
They contributed to the isolation of Ethiopia from the emerging global labor network.
Which of the following best explains the overall population trend shown in the table?
Large-scale migration from the Pacific Islands to the Americas for plantation labor
Conflict between Pacific Island states
The spread of epidemic diseases as a result of contact with Westerners
The expansion of the Japanese empire in the Pacific
Which of the following best explains the changes in the population of the Hawaiian Islands from 1872 to 1878?
The increased presence of Asian indentured servants on Hawaiian plantations
The growth of tourism as a result of technological advances in transportation
The urbanization of Hawaii as a result of industrialization
The development of racial exclusion policies in European settler colonies
The historical trend represented by the table is most similar to which of the following?
The spread of the Black Death along the Silk Roads in the fourteenth century
The impact of the Columbian Exchange on American populations in the sixteenth century
The effects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on West African populations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
The results of the development of reliable birth control methods in the twentieth century
The object in Image 1 best illustrates which of the following continuities in world history?
The power of traditional elites was continuously challenged by the emerging power of new elites.
The power of states was based on the ability of rulers to monopolize the use of violence.
Artists depended on royal patronage for their livelihoods.
Rulers used religious imagery to legitimize their political authority.
The object in Image 2 best illustrates which of the following cultural processes in the period circa 1450–1750?
The spread of Ethiopian cultural traditions in West Africa
The influence of the Columbian Exchange on artistic traditions
The development of religious syncretism as cultural traditions spread
The intensification of pre-existing religious conflicts and rivalries
Taken together, the two images best support which of the following conclusions?
New European technologies transformed African artistic traditions.
African societies that practiced Christianity generally gave women greater political and cultural prominence than did African societies that practiced traditional religions.
African societies combined a patriarchal power structure with cultural traditions that gave women a prominent place in social and cultural life.
Women’s roles in African societies were shaped by the interaction between Christianity and Islam as the two religions spread in the region.
Frere’s speech is best understood in the context of which of the following?
Governments in Asian empires undertaking economic reforms to catch up with European powers
Governments undertaking political and social reforms to mitigate the effects of industrial capitalism
Governments expanding and consolidating their empires using their increasing industrial power
Governments promoting redistributionist policies to reduce income inequality between labor and capital
The lifting of traditional restrictions on Indian labor alluded to in the speech contributed most directly to which of the following global processes?
Protests for improved sanitation and living conditions in industrial cities
Long-distance and overseas migrations of contractual and coerced workers
The decline of Spanish and Portuguese influence in the Indian Ocean
The emergence of new racial ideologies that supported European imperialism
Which of the following best explains Frere’s characterization of the time of his speech as the “Railway Period” in British India?
Railways provided a means for Hindu pilgrims to visit sacred sites quickly and cheaply.
Railways allowed British missionaries to spread Christianity more effectively
Railways opened up access to interior markets and resources for British commercial interests.
Railways eased the overcrowding in Indian cities by allowing industrial workers to commute from suburban areas.
Frere’s view of the changing opportunities for Indian labor most directly reflects the influence of which of the following?
The ideals of classical liberalism as stated by Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill
The ideals of communism as stated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The ideals of the Enlightenment as stated by political revolutionaries such as Simon Bolívar
The ideals of mercantilism as developed by European state-sponsored joint-stock trading
The interpretation of Mexican history presented in the passage is most strongly influenced by which of the following?
Marxism
Anticolonialism
Social Darwinism
Nationalism
The reference in the second paragraph to “the hateful idea that there are inferior races” is best understood in the context of which of the following twentieth-century developments?
The Spanish Civil War
The final dissolution of the Spanish colonial empire
The Holocaust in Europe during the Second World War
The migration of former colonial subjects to Europe
Present-day historians would most likely agree with which of the following aspects of the historical interpretation advanced in the passage?
The omission of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest on the Indians
The claim that the ethnic and racial hierarchies of colonial Mexico were egalitarian in nature
The gendered language and use of ethnic stereotypes to describe the conquerors
The suggestion that the Spanish conquest of Mexico resulted in the formation of new identities
Which of the following best explains the motivation behind the Empire Marketing Board’s publication of the Empire Christmas Pudding recipe?
To promote innovations of the Green Revolution
To promote imperial unity in response to rising nationalism
To promote free market economic plans
To promote Christian values in the context of Soviet expansion
The inclusion of rum from Jamaica in the recipe is a consequence of which of the following?
The development of a plantation economy based on coerced and semicoerced labor
The transfer of American crops to Europe as a result of the Columbian Exchange
The migration of Caribbean peoples to England
The intensification of free peasant agriculture in the Caribbean
Demand for Asian spices drove which of the following in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
The widespread use of convict labor in agriculture
The development of industrial manufacturing processes
The expansion of the Manchu Empire in East Asia
The establishment of European trading-post empires
Which of the following best accounts for the circumstances of Indian workers alluded to in Poem 1?
The increasing migration of Indian laborers to industrialized urban areas
The cultural divisions between Indian Muslim migrants and Indian Hindu migrants
The coerced migration of Indian indentured servants
The pattern of many Indian migrants returning to their homeland after their contracts ended
In Poem 1, the sentiments regarding education and politics are best understood in the context of which of the following?
The persistence of slavery in spite of the abolitionist movement in the British Empire
The growth of women’s movements pushing for greater education and domestic rights
The British failure to provide mass education in India, for fear that doing so would encourage resistance against imperial rule
The revival of traditional Hindu and Muslim religious beliefs in India
The religious tensions alluded to in Poem 2 would result most directly in which of the following?
The migration of many South Asians to Great Britain
The development of new syncretic belief systems in India such as Sikhism and Bahaism
The Japanese invasion of India during the Second World War
The population resettlement following the partition of South Asia into India and Pakistan
In Poem 2 the reference to Indian victories on battlefields is best understood in the context of which of the following?
Violent resistance by Indians to colonial rule
The drafting of migrants into the militaries of host countries
Indian resistance to Japanese imperialism
The mobilization of Indian troops to fight in Great Britain’s wars
The two sources best illustrate which of the following aspects of human interactions with the environment in the late twentieth century?
Industrialization led to increasingly hazardous levels of air and water pollution.
Economic development policies intensified competition over limited natural resources.
Urbanization dramatically expanded the per capita rates of freshwater consumption.
Climate change led to increasing desertification in drought-prone regions.
On a global scale, which of the following directly prevented problems such as those alluded to in the two sources from leading to population decline in the late twentieth century?
The development of new forms of global communication and transportation
The extension of the average human life span brought about by medical advances
The greater social acceptance of birth control
The increases in average agricultural yields per acre brought about by the Green Revolution
Which of the following additional pieces of information would be most directly useful in assessing the extent to which the developments reflected in Source 2 represent a threat to Iraq’s economy?
Information on the total amount of foreign investment in Iraq’s economy
Information on the percentage of Iraqi agriculture that depends on irrigation
Information on the political affiliation of Iraq’s minister of water resources
Information on Iraq’s petroleum resources and revenues
The state’s claim as described in the first paragraph is best understood in the context of which of the following?
The Non-Aligned Movement
Decolonization
The Cold War
Economic nationalization
The economic conditions described by Mandela in the second paragraph would lead many former European colonies to embrace which of the following?
The reestablishment of European rule
The sale of state-owned land to Western entrepreneurs
The implementation of redistributionist economic policies
The encouragement of immigration to Europe
Which of the following provided justification for the South African government’s policies described in the third paragraph?
Anti-Imperialism
Liberal Nationalism
Socialism
Social Darwinism
