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1.1 -- 1.3 Assessment

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What allowed China, under the Song Dynasty, to become the most populous trading area in the world?

a)

Its large population

b)

The Grand Canal

c)

The Chinese Imperial Beaucracy

d)

War

2.

Through what did the technologies of guns and gun powder spread from China to all parts of Eurasia?

a)

the Silk Roads

b)

the Grand Canal

c)

the Himalayas

d)

the Indo-China Peninsula

3.

What caused China's population to grow quickly?

a)

the Grand Canal

b)

the Silk Roads

c)

new, abundant food sources

d)

winning wars

4.

Which of the following WAS NOT an export from China that helped it become a commercialized society?

a)

porcelain

b)

tea

c)

steel

d)

textiles

5.

Which East Asian culture learned from and traded with China but had an adversarial relationship with the Chinese?

a)

Japanese

b)

Vietnamese

c)

Korean

d)

French

6.

Which East Asian culture, though emulating China in many aspects, created its own writing system in the 15th Century?

a)

Japanese

b)

Vietnamese

c)

Korean

d)

Thai

7.

Which East Asian culture could best control its interactions with China due to the distance between them?

a)

Japanese

b)

Vietnamese

c)

Korean

d)

Thai

8.

True or False:  Foot Binding was a regular practice of the poor in Chinese society.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

In which country did Mamluks seize governmental power and establish a Mamluk Sultanate?

a)

China

b)

Turkey

c)

Egypt

d)

Saudi Arabia

10.

Which group stopped the Mongols from conquering Egypt?

a)

Seljuk Turks

b)

Mamluks

c)

Abbasid Caliphate

d)

Jews

11.

The Abbasid Caliphate was led by Arabs and Persians but later were shaped by which group from Central Asia?

a)

Turkic peoples

b)

Mongols

c)

Mughal Empire

d)

French

12.

True or False:  Muslims translated Greek literary classics into Arabic, saving the works of Aristotle and other Greek thinkers from oblivion.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

How did Sufi missionaries win many converts to Islam?

a)

They paid poor people money to convert.

b)

They appealed to both Sunni and Shi'a.

c)

They befriended aristocrats who ordered poor people to convert.

d)

They interwove local religious elements into Islam.

14.

Who could Muslims NOT enslave?

a)

Women

b)

Children under the age of 5

c)

Other Muslims

d)

People who used to be slaves elsewhere

15.

Who were "people of the book"?

a)

Librarians

b)

Monotheists

c)

Merchants who sold books

d)

People who studied at the House of Wisdom

16.

What led the Khmer Empire to its economic prosperity?

a)

trade through shipping

b)

complex irrigation and drainage systems

c)

Angkor Wat

d)

taxes

17.

Some Southeast Asians felt comfortable converting to Islam through Sufis because of how Sufis felt about local faiths. 

How did Sufis feel about local faiths?

a)

inflexible

b)

tolerant

c)

angry

d)

resistant

18.

Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam are all part of which AP World Map Region?

a)

South Asia

b)

Central Asia

c)

East Asia

d)

Southeast Asia

19.

Bhaktis were part of what religion?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Islam

c)

Hinduism

d)

Christianity

20.

Urdu is the official language of which country?

a)

Pakistan

b)

India

c)

Cambodia

d)

Indonesia

21.

True or False:  Low caste Hindus who converted to Islam as a way to improve their social status achieved their goal.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

In South Asia, who were the largest number of converts to Islam?

a)

Hindus

b)

Buddhists

c)

Cambodians

d)

Vietnamese

23.

To whom did the Delhi Sultanate lose power?

a)

Angkor Wat

b)

Mughal Empire

c)

Mongols

d)

Srivijaya Empire

24.

What did South Asian citizens NOT have to do if they converted to Islam?

a)

Wash the feet of the Sultan

b)

Remain low caste

c)

Pay the jizya

d)

Join the military