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WorksheetsAP World History Modern Period
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
What can be assumed from the quote above?
Feudal systems developed in France to deter the invasions of Muslims, Vikings, and Huns
Lord Bernard of Carcossconne is taking an oath of loyalty
Christianity was spreading throughout Europe in the Middle Ages
Lord Bernard of Carcossconne is a convert of the Islam
Which of the following statements best exemplifies the socioeconomic system of Europe at the time?
Peasant rebellions were a violent and frequent occurrence
Disease resulted in substantial population loss
Peasant agriculture was the most-common economic practice of feudal Europe
Constant invasions caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire
Which of the following systems is most-similar to the feudal system in the Post-Classical Era?
Severe tribute collection practices by the Mongols
The incorporation of conquered peoples into labor forces by the Aztecs
The second-class status of non-Muslims in the Muslim world
The state-run labor under the mit’a system
Which of the following statements demonstrates the sociopolitical impact of the European feudal system?
Over-taxation, famine, and disease frequently led to peasant revolts
Women were afforded greater social opportunity under Christianity in convents
Oaths of fealty frequently resulted in the unification and harmony of areas based on common language, such as in Britain, France, and the Holy Roman Empire
Success of the feudal system spread and appealed to the historically independent localities of Japan during the Post-Classical Era
The image above best represents which of the following impacts of the Black Death:
The impact of mass death and apocalyptic tones that dominated European society and art
The labor shortage and wage conflicts that plagued 14th-century European economics
The fall in trade due to the declining Mongolian khanates
The desire to find an alternate route to Asia for Europeans
Which of the following statements best describes the setting in which plagues were able to spread during the Post-Classical Era:
Plagues were unknowingly spread by the fleas of rats in Europe, Asia, and Africa
The spread of plagues were often accompanied by the fall of major empires
Plagues spread most easily during times of imperial affluence that facilitated and stabilized interregional trade routes
The emergence of plagues often brought about religious revivals, particularly in Christian Europe
Which of the following states or groups likely DID NOT contribute to the spread of the Black Death via trade:
Mongolian khanates
Srivijaya Empire
Venetian Merchants
Byzantine Empire
Who would most-likely agree with the quote above?
Confucius
Muhammad
Siddhartha Guatama
Mansa Musa
What historical developments are best reflected by the tone of the author?
A strong anti-foreign culture attitude in China, most-notably the Tang Dynasty
The re-establishment of Daoist ideals under Neo-Confucianism the Song Dynasty
The adopting of Buddhism and Chinese culture by the Japanese in the 9th century
The desire for order and social harmony by the Ming Dynasty after the Mongol occupation
Which of the following best explains the presence of Buddhism in China during the 9th century?
Merchants and missionaries spreading ideals along the Silk Road
Muslim conquests resulted in the flight of Buddhists from India and Southeast Asia to China
The Taika Reforms brought Japanese culture and ideas into China during the 9th century
Imperial Chinese policies pursued the spread and acceptance of Buddhism in 9th-century China
Which of the following best reflects the attitude of the Chinese during the Imperial Golden Age of China?
The absorption of minority populations into Chinese culture
Mongol status as ‘equals’ under the tenets of the Tribute System
The perspective of China as the enlightened center of civilization and culture
A period of isolation and withdrawal as trade disperses Chinese culture and technology
Which of the following best describes the rapid spread of Islam in the 7th and 8th century CE?
Expansion by military conquest of the first caliphates
Expansion by missionary work along interregional trade routes
Expansion via Diaspora along the Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean Trade Networks
Expansion due to its egalitarian appeal to women and the lower classes
Which of the following historical events is most similar to the spread of Islam in the Post-Classical Era?
The spread of Christianity into Europe
The spread of Hinduism into Southeast Asia
The spread of Buddhism into East Africa
The spread of Zoroastrianism into the Levant
Which of the following reasons best explains the spread of Islam after 750 CE?
Islam continued to spread exclusively by conquests through Muslim Turkish Empires
The spread of Islam was stopped at the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan
Islam continued to spread exclusively through trade in the Indian Ocean and West Africa
Islam continued to spread both through Turkish conquest and through Muslim trade communities and merchants in the Indian Ocean and West Africa
Which of the following best explains the population spike seen during the Song Dynasty?
The collection of tributes from protectorate states during the Golden Age of Imperial China
The successful absorption of previously-conquered minorities from Central Asia by the Tang
The adoption of the qanat system from the Persians
The inclusion of Champa rice as staple food
Which of the following factors contributed to world population growth during the Post-Classical Era?
The ‘Little Ice Age’
The spread of agricultural goods such as bananas and coconuts to Africa
The end of pastoral and nomadic invasions
The ‘warm period’ of the 8th to 14th centuries
Which of the following statements best exemplifies the growth of city-states during the Post-Classical Era?
Economic innovations such as trade unions like the Hanseatic League
The rapid growth of interregional trade facilitated by the Muslim states and Mongol Empire
The influence of imperial China’s Golden Age economic affluence and consistency
Navigational innovations that allowed for better travel and access to advantageously-positioned cities
Which of the following best explains the tone of Post-Classical explorers?
Explorers were often impressed by other civilizations, pulling them in high regard
Explorers often merely sought to establish trade connections with their mother state
Most explorations were religiously motivated
Explorers in foreign civilizations generally tended to hold condescending and judgmental views of the population in question
Which of the following best explains Ibn Battuta’s criticism of the West African Muslims?
Islam in the Arab world was far less assiduous than Islam in West Africa
Islam in the Arab world was far more influenced by Persian culture
The Arab world was far more patriarchal than their West African counterparts
Women experienced far more individual freedom in the Arab world
What circumstances perhaps explain the variation in the practice of Islam between the Arab and West African world?
Arab caliphates rigidly ruled by Sharia law
West African kingdoms often did not impose Sharia law on citizens in the Postclassical Era
West African kingdoms were often influenced by European Christianity in the Postclassical Era
Arabs could not agree on a unified interpretation of Islam due to the Sunni and Shia conflicts
