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REVIEW QUESTIONS AP WORLD HISTORY TOPICS 1.1-1.3

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why did the Delhi Sultanate fail?

a)

religious conflicts

b)

lost territory

c)

harsh government

d)

failed leadership

2.

Name the most powerful emirate that rose out of Anatolia.

a)

Seljuk Turks

b)

Mongols

c)

Ottomans

d)

Mughols

3.

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was know for

a)

medical advances

b)

writing poetry

c)

leading the Abbasaid Dynasty

d)

inventing Trigonometry

4.

What invading group captured and conquered Anatolia?

a)

Mongols

b)

Mughols

c)

Abbasids

d)

Seljuk Turks

5.

What was the House of Wisdom?

a)

largest collection of Arabic poems by a woman

b)

massive library in Baghdad

c)

the time period of prosperity and technology in the Islamic World

d)

center of culture in Damascus

6.

What was 'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah best known for?

a)

creation of Triginometry

b)

advancements in Algebra

c)

large collection of Arabic poems

d)

advancements in medicine

7.

Dar-al-Islam refers to what?

a)

original Arabian states

b)

conquered territory in Anatolia

c)

spread of Islam to Africa

d)

all Muslim controlled territory

8.

The Sejuk Turks limited European travel to their holy sites in and around Jerusalem; European Christians organized groups of soldiers, called ___, to reopen access.

a)

Janissaries

b)

Mamluks

c)

Crusaders

d)

Sufis

9.

Solidified under Islam, a term that can refer either to the practice of dressing modestly or a specific type of head coverings

a)

Hadith

b)

Shariah

c)

hijab

d)

dowry

10.

Overall, Islamic women enjoy a higher state than Christian or Jewish women because they were allowed to do all of the following: [check all that apply]

a)

inherit property and retain ownership after marriage

b)

remarry if widowed

c)

women were equal to men in the eyes of the law

d)

a wife could initiate divorce and receive a cash settlement

11.

All of the following were true of Córdoba, Spain. [more than one answer]

a)

rulers created a culture of toleration, with Muslims, Jews. and Christians coexisting peacefully

b)

rulers promoted trade; goods from China and SE Asia entered Spain on ships called dhows

c)

rulers built many Christian Orthodox Churches in honor of the pope in Rome

d)

transferred scholarship from the Islamic world, India, and China which laid the ground work for the Renaissance

12.

All of the following is true of Sufis [more than 1 answer]

a)

emphasized introspection to grasp religious truth

b)

Most Muslims follow Sufism

c)

Sufis played an important role in the spread of Islam because they tended to adapt to local cultures

d)

Most merchants were Sufis

13.

Which of the following belief systems contributed to dynamic developments in South and Southeast Asia [click all that apply]

a)

Christianity

b)

Hindus

c)

Islam

d)

Buddhism

14.

After the Gupta Dynasty fell in South Asia in 550, political disunity returned for 1000 years; however, ____ provided some cultural unity in the region.

a)

Islam

b)

Confucianism

c)

Hinduism

d)

Buddhism

15.

This southern South Asian kingdom was founded by two Hindu brothers, and functioned as a barrier to the Muslim sultanates in the north, Hinduism, scholarship, tolerance, and prosperity all characterized this empire from 1336-1646.

a)

Delhi Sultanate

b)

Srivijaya Empire

c)

Khmer

Empire

d)

Vijayanagara Empire

16.

After the Gupta fell, these Hindu kingdoms formed in northern India; because of the competition among clans, no centralized government arose and left them vulnerable to Muslim attacks

a)

Srivijaya Empire

b)

Rajput kingdoms

c)

Delhi Sultanate

d)

Angkor Wat

17.

Which of the following best explains why Hindus in northern India resented the Delhi Sultanate

a)

The Delhi The Sultanate never organized a bureaucracy

b)

The Sultanate was too tolerant

c)

The Sultanate imposed a tax called the jizya on non-Muslims

d)

The Sultanate allowed the Mongol army to invade

18.

The relationship between Hindus and Muslims shaped the history of South Asia and continues to shape regional culture and politics to this day. How did Islam arrive in India?

a)

Forced conversion and conquest

b)

Merchants living in port cities married and their wife converted

c)

Sufi missionaries

d)

Scholars sharing information

19.

Which of the following is an example of the Delhi Sultanate showing dominance and power over northern India?

a)

Qutub Minar

b)

The Indian Numeral system which is referred to in the West as Arabic numerals

c)

translation of algebra into Arabic

d)

The destruction of the caste system

20.

Muslims of South Asia developed a new language called ___ which melded grammatical patterns of Hindi, Arabic words, and elements of Farsi

a)

Arabic

b)

Bhakti

c)

English

d)

Urdu

21.

Some Hindus began to focus on developing a strong attachment to a deity and did not discriminate base on caste or gender; this was called ____

a)

Zen Buddhism

b)

Neo-Hinduism

c)

the Bhakti Movement

d)

the Sufi movement

22.

How did Buddhism and Hinduism get to the lands of Southeast Asia?

a)

Islamic Conquest

b)

Mongol Conquest

c)

Merchants from India introduced the religion

d)

Sufi Merchants

23.

How did empires like Srivijaya and Majapahit thrive?

a)

By using gunpowder weapons

b)

by building up their Navies to control sea routes and charge fees for ships trading in the region

c)

by using Hinduism as a unifying force

d)

Charge their subjects the jizya tax

24.

How did the Khmer Empire (aka Angkor Kingdom) generate economic prosperity?

a)

by controlling the sea routes

b)

by developing complex irrigation systems to harvest rice and drainage systems to prevent Monsoon flooding

c)

Unifying the people using Islam

d)

Using Confucianism and the Chinese bureaucratic system

25.

The great temple, Angkor Wat, shown above is important to historians for which of the following reason?

a)

This was the first Islamic Mosque in the region

b)

In both its architecture and its use it reflects the interaction between Hinduism and Buddhism in Southeast Asia

c)

This was the longest lasting Buddhist monastery

d)

It is the location where Siddhartha Gautama founded the religion called Buddhism