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WorksheetsUnit 2 AP World History
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 9mins
The integration of West African states into wider regional and transregional economic networks in the period circa 1200–1450 was carried out mostly via the
Swahili coast trade routes
Silk Road trade networks
trans-Saharan trade routes
Indian Ocean trade routes
Answer C
The spread of Islam into sub-Saharan West Africa in the period circa 1200–1450 was mostly a result of the conversion of the rulers of which of the following states?
Mamluk Egypt
The Mongol khanates
The Ming dynasty
The Mali Empire
In the period circa 1200–1450, which of the following most directly enabled merchants to bring salt and other bulk products to markets in sub-Saharan Africa?
The diffusion of new maritime technologies such as the lateen sail
The adoption of innovative practices in overland trading, such as the use of camel caravans and saddles
The transfer of East Asian technologies to western Afro-Eurasia during the period of Pax Mongolica
The shared use of the Arabic language and common practice of Islam by both North African and sub-Saharan merchant communities
The map demonstrates which of the following about the Indian Ocean trade?
Monsoons prevented trade from taking place along the East African coast.
Europeans were active in bringing goods from West Africa to the Indian Ocean.
Trade involved most of the regions bordering the Indian Ocean as well as China.
The most important item traded across the Indian Ocean was silk.
The map indicates that
Mali was a major source and hub of the gold trade
slavery existed in the western Sudan
Europeans had begun to make inroads in West Africa
Mali remained isolated from Europe and the Middle East
The map below shows what significant economic developments?
Trade connections that linked the Hellenistic and Mauryan empires to African cities from 300 through 150 B.C.E.
Trading networks that promoted the growth of new cities from 600 C.E. through 1450 C.E
Chinese dominance of Indian Ocean trading networks because of the voyages of Zheng He in the 1400s C.E.
Changes in Indian Ocean trading networks that resulted from technological innovations from 1450 C.E. through 1750 C.E.
The establishment of the Mongol Empire directly facilitated which of the following?
Increased cultural and technological exchange between the Islamic world and China
The development of Mongolian as the primary written language of administration across most of Eurasia
The spread of Persian culture into Central Asia
Improved ship designs and navigation techniques for oceanic commerce
The development of Indian Ocean trade routes in the period 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. and the development of transatlantic trade routes in the period 1450 C.E. to 1600 C.E. were similar in that both depended on
the impetus of missionizing religions
understanding of currents and wind patterns
the political consolidation of newly conquered regions into empires
innovations in ship design that originated in Europe
A significant example of the interaction among Indian, Arab, and European societies by 1200 C.E. was the transfer of knowledge of
iron and copper mining techniques
the flying shuttle and spinning jenny
the science of optics and lens design
numerals and the decimal system
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.
