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WorksheetsAP World History Unit 0 Vocabulary
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is the dominant moral and political philosophy in Imperial China that emphasizes loyalty to the emperor and government based on educated scholar-officials?
Daoism
Legalism
Confucianism
Buddhism
Which Chinese traditional religion emphasizes harmony and balance with nature and has profoundly influenced Chinese art, science, and culture?
Legalism
Daoism
Confucianism
Islam
What belief system in China emphasizes a strong centralized state that enforces strict laws and harsh punishments?
Confucianism
Daoism
Legalism
Buddhism
Who are professionals that work full-time for a government and help to carry out its various functions?
Meritocrats
Bureaucrats
Legalists
Scholars
What system allows a person to rise in status based on their qualifications and achievements rather than their personal or family connections?
Bureaucracy
Legalism
Meritocracy
Filial Piety
What is a core belief of Confucianism that involves respect for one's elders and ancestors?
Meritocracy
Filial Piety
Legalism
Bureaucracy
Which religious tradition emerged in India, shares many similarities with Hinduism, and has three main branches: Mahayana, Theravada, and Tibetan?
Islam
Daoism
Buddhism
Confucianism
Which branch of Buddhism is dominant in Southeast Asia and attempts to adhere to the original teachings of the Buddha?
Mahayana
Theravada
Tibetan
Zen
Which branch of Buddhism is dominant in East Asia and encourages believers to become bodhisattvas?
Theravada
Mahayana
Tibetan
Zen
Which strongly monotheistic religion was founded by the Prophet Mohammed and spread rapidly during the Middle Ages?
Buddhism
Daoism
Islam
Confucianism
Which branch of Islam is practiced in most of the Islamic world?
Shia
Sufism
Sunni
Eastern Orthodox
Which branch of Islam believes that the successor to the Prophet Mohammed should be someone from his bloodline?
Sunni
Shia
Sufism
Catholicism
Which subgroup of Muslims practices a deeply spiritual and mystical version of the Islamic faith?
Sunni
Shia
Sufism
Hinduism
Which branch of Christianity broke away from the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages?
Eastern Orthodox
Catholicism
Monasticism
Animism
Which is the oldest branch of Christianity that traces its origins to the Roman Empire?
Eastern Orthodox
Catholicism
Monasticism
Hinduism
What is the religious way of life in which individuals known as monks or nuns devote their lives to spirituality?
Pastoral nomads
State
Monasticism
Animism
Who are people that provide for themselves by tending large herds of domesticated animals?
Pastoral nomads
Monasticism
State
Sufism
What is the government of a country with defined borders, a military, and established laws called?
State
Monasticism
Pastoral nomads
Animism
Which is the oldest of the major world religions that is primarily practiced in India?
Catholicism
Hinduism
Shia
Sufism
Which type of religious belief holds that spirits inhabit all things in nature?
Monasticism
State
Animism
Hinduism
What term describes a group of elites who typically own large amounts of land and sometimes have titles of nobility such as "Lord"?
Aristocracy
Patriarchy
Social Stratification
Urban
What term is used to describe major cities that attract foreign visitors and businesspeople due to their many foreign influences and diversity of cultures?
Secular
Cosmopolitan
Urban
Fundamentalism
What is the term for a social system in which males have most of the political and economic power?
Aristocracy
Social Mobility
Patriarchy
Cultural Syncretism
What is the ability to rise in social class called?
Social Stratification
Social Mobility
Coercive Labor System
Codification
What term describes when a society is divided into various social classes, such as the caste system in India?
Social Stratification
Social Mobility
Coercive Labor System
Secular
What is a way of organizing the economy in which workers are forced against their will to perform labor, with examples including serfdom and slavery?
Cultural Syncretism
Coercive Labor System
Fundamentalism
Codification
What term describes when different cultures combine to form something new, such as in Latin America where many people mix indigenous religious beliefs with Christianity?
Secular
Urban
Cultural Syncretism
Social Mobility
What term means non-religious?
Secular
Fundamentalism
Codification
Urban
What term describes when someone holds a strong adherence to a religion's original teachings?
Secular
Fundamentalism
Codification
Urban
What term describes when something is officially written into law?
Social Mobility
Coercive Labor System
Codification
Cultural Syncretism
What term refers to cities?
Urban
Secular
Cosmopolitan
Patriarchy
What is the Classical Era?
The period of human history from 600 BCE to 600 CE.
The period of human history from 600 CE to 1450 CE.
The period of human history from 1450 CE to 1750 CE.
The period of human history from 1750 CE to 1900 CE.
What defines a city-state?
A city that is an independent political entity with its own government.
A city that is part of a larger empire.
A city that is governed by a theocracy.
A city that is primarily focused on maritime activities.
What is the time period of the Medieval Period / Middle Ages?
600 BCE to 600 CE
600 CE to 1450 CE
1450 CE to 1750 CE
1750 CE to 1900 CE
What is an empire?
A state that encompasses a vast amount of territory and incorporates people with many different cultures, languages, and belief systems.
A city that is an independent political entity with its own government.
A government merged with a religious belief system.
An economy that begins to produce commodities for trade.
What is a theocracy?
When the government of a country is merged with a religious belief system.
When a state encompasses a vast amount of territory.
When an economy begins to produce commodities for trade.
When someone is regarded with lesser importance than someone else.
What is a commodity?
Anything that can be bought or sold.
An independent political entity.
An official organization having an important role in the life of a country.
A region of the world that encompasses Africa, Europe, and Asia.
What is commercialization?
When an economy begins to produce commodities for trade rather than for personal consumption.
When a state encompasses a vast amount of territory.
When the government of a country is merged with a religious belief system.
When someone is regarded with lesser importance than someone else.
What does maritime refer to?
Connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity.
An independent political entity.
An official organization having an important role in the life of a country.
A region of the world that encompasses Africa, Europe, and Asia.
What does it mean to be subordinate or subordinated?
When someone is regarded with lesser importance than someone else.
When an economy begins to produce commodities for trade.
When the government of a country is merged with a religious belief system.
When a state encompasses a vast amount of territory.
What are institutions?
An established official organization having an important role in the life of a country, such as a bank, church, or government agency.
A city that is an independent political entity with its own government.
A state that encompasses a vast amount of territory.
A region of the world that encompasses Africa, Europe, and Asia.
What is Afro-Eurasia?
The region of the world that encompasses Africa, Europe, and Asia.
The Southwestern portion of Asia that includes countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran.
A state that encompasses a vast amount of territory.
An economy that begins to produce commodities for trade.
What is the Middle East?
The Southwestern portion of Asia that includes countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The region of the world that encompasses Africa, Europe, and Asia.
An independent political entity with its own government.
An official organization having an important role in the life of a country.
Which region of the world is characterized by steppe grasslands and includes modern-day countries such as Mongolia, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan?
Southeast Asia
Central Asia
East Asia
Western Europe
Which region of the world includes modern-day countries such as Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia?
Southeast Asia
Central Asia
East Asia
Eastern Europe
Which region of the world includes modern-day countries such as China, Korea, and Japan?
Southeast Asia
Central Asia
East Asia
Western Europe
Which region of Europe includes modern-day countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and Romania?
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Central Asia
Southeast Asia
Which region of Europe includes modern-day countries such as France, Britain, and the Netherlands?
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Central Asia
Southeast Asia
What is a primary source?
A text produced by a historian that attempts to tell a coherent narrative about a past event.
A historical document that was produced during the time period that a historian is studying.
A government in which power is concentrated in a central authority.
Basic facilities and services that help a society function.
What is a secondary source?
A text produced by a historian that attempts to tell a coherent narrative about a past event.
A historical document that was produced during the time period that a historian is studying.
A government in which power is concentrated in a central authority.
Basic facilities and services that help a society function.
What is a centralized government?
A government in which decision-making processes are dispersed throughout the system.
A government in which power is concentrated in a central authority.
Basic facilities and services that help a society function.
A historical document that was produced during the time period that a historian is studying.
What is a decentralized government?
A government in which decision-making processes are dispersed throughout the system.
A government in which power is concentrated in a central authority.
Basic facilities and services that help a society function.
A historical document that was produced during the time period that a historian is studying.
What is infrastructure?
A government in which decision-making processes are dispersed throughout the system.
A government in which power is concentrated in a central authority.
Basic facilities and services that help a society function.
A historical document that was produced during the time period that a historian is studying.
What is the primary purpose of monumental architecture?
To provide housing for the population
To inspire awe and devotion to a government or a religion
To serve as marketplaces
To act as defensive structures
Which region is referred to as Mesoamerica?
South America
Europe
Western hemisphere including Mexico and Central America
Eastern hemisphere including China and Japan
What does the term 'Diaspora' refer to?
A worker skilled in a craft
A dispersion of people from their homeland
The characteristics of a population
Money paid by one country to another
Who is considered an artisan?
A farmer
A government official
A worker skilled in a craft
A religious leader
What does the term 'agrarian' relate to?
Government structures
Farms, farmers, or the use of land
Population characteristics
Trade and business methods
What are demographics?
The characteristics of a population with respect to size, age, race, and gender
The production and distribution of goods and services
The different categories of people in a society
The enduring behaviors and traditions of a group of people
What is a tribute?
A form of government
Money paid by one country to another in return for protection
A type of economic system
A social class
What does the term 'political' relate to?
The production and distribution of goods
The characteristics of a population
Government, laws, and methods of rule
The use of land for farming
What does the term 'economic' relate to?
The characteristics of a population
The production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
The different categories of people in a society
The enduring behaviors and traditions of a group of people
What do social structures relate to?
The production and distribution of goods
The characteristics of a population
The different categories of people in a society
The use of land for farming
What does the term 'culture' encompass?
The characteristics of a population
The production and distribution of goods
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a group of people
The use of land for farming
What is asceticism?
The characteristics of a population
The production and distribution of goods
Severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence
The use of land for farming
What does the term "Continuity" refer to?
A) A forcible overthrow of a government or social order
B) The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
C) When something stays the same over time, or has a strong similarity with something that existed in a previous time period or place
D) A philosophical belief system
What is the definition of "Revolution"?
A) Characterized by staying in one place, such as in agricultural societies
B) A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system
C) The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
D) A philosophical belief system
Which term describes being characterized by staying in one place, such as in agricultural societies?
A) Continuity
B) Revolution
C) Sedentary
D) Assimilation
What does "Assimilation" mean?
A) A philosophical belief system
B) A forcible overthrow of a government or social order
C) The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
D) When something stays the same over time
What is an "Ideology" or "Doctrine"?
A) A philosophical belief system
B) The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
C) A forcible overthrow of a government or social order
D) Characterized by staying in one place, such as in agricultural societies
