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AP World History Modern Period

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

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1.

What can be assumed from the quote above?

a)

Feudal systems developed in France to deter the invasions of Muslims, Vikings, and Huns

b)

Lord Bernard of Carcossconne is taking an oath of loyalty

c)

Christianity was spreading throughout Europe in the Middle Ages

d)

Lord Bernard of Carcossconne is a convert of the Islam

2.

Which of the following statements best exemplifies the socioeconomic system of Europe at the time?

a)

Peasant rebellions were a violent and frequent occurrence

b)

Disease resulted in substantial population loss

c)

Peasant agriculture was the most-common economic practice of feudal Europe

d)

Constant invasions caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire

3.

Which of the following systems is most-similar to the feudal system in the Post-Classical Era?

a)

Severe tribute collection practices by the Mongols

b)

The incorporation of conquered peoples into labor forces by the Aztecs

c)

The second-class status of non-Muslims in the Muslim world

d)

The state-run labor under the mit’a system

4.

Which of the following statements demonstrates the sociopolitical impact of the European feudal system?

a)

Over-taxation, famine, and disease frequently led to peasant revolts

b)

Women were afforded greater social opportunity under Christianity in convents

c)

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

d)

Success of the feudal system spread and appealed to the historically independent localities of Japan during the Post-Classical Era

5.

The image above best represents which of the following impacts of the Black Death:

a)

The impact of mass death and apocalyptic tones that dominated European society and art

b)

The labor shortage and wage conflicts that plagued 14th-century European economics

c)

The fall in trade due to the declining Mongolian khanates

d)

The desire to find an alternate route to Asia for Europeans

6.

Which of the following statements best describes the setting in which plagues were able to spread during the Post-Classical Era:

a)

Plagues were unknowingly spread by the fleas of rats in Europe, Asia, and Africa

b)

The spread of plagues were often accompanied by the fall of major empires

c)

Plagues spread most easily during times of imperial affluence that facilitated and stabilized interregional trade routes

d)

The emergence of plagues often brought about religious revivals, particularly in Christian Europe

7.

Which of the following states or groups likely DID NOT contribute to the spread of the Black Death via trade:

a)

Mongolian khanates

b)

Srivijaya Empire

c)

Venetian Merchants

d)

Byzantine Empire

8.

Who would most-likely agree with the quote above?

a)

Confucius

b)

Muhammad

c)

Siddhartha Guatama

d)

Mansa Musa

9.

What historical developments are best reflected by the tone of the author?

a)

A strong anti-foreign culture attitude in China, most-notably the Tang Dynasty

b)

The re-establishment of Daoist ideals under Neo-Confucianism the Song Dynasty

c)

The adopting of Buddhism and Chinese culture by the Japanese in the 9th century

d)

The desire for order and social harmony by the Ming Dynasty after the Mongol occupation

10.

Which of the following best explains the presence of Buddhism in China during the 9th century?

a)

Merchants and missionaries spreading ideals along the Silk Road

b)

Muslim conquests resulted in the flight of Buddhists from India and Southeast Asia to China

c)

The Taika Reforms brought Japanese culture and ideas into China during the 9th century

d)

Imperial Chinese policies pursued the spread and acceptance of Buddhism in 9th-century China

11.

Which of the following best reflects the attitude of the Chinese during the Imperial Golden Age of China?

a)

The absorption of minority populations into Chinese culture

b)

Mongol status as ‘equals’ under the tenets of the Tribute System

c)

The perspective of China as the enlightened center of civilization and culture

d)

A period of isolation and withdrawal as trade disperses Chinese culture and technology

12.

Which of the following best describes the rapid spread of Islam in the 7th and 8th century CE?

a)

Expansion by military conquest of the first caliphates

b)

Expansion by missionary work along interregional trade routes

c)

Expansion via Diaspora along the Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean Trade Networks

d)

Expansion due to its egalitarian appeal to women and the lower classes

13.

Which of the following historical events is most similar to the spread of Islam in the Post-Classical Era?

a)

The spread of Christianity into Europe

b)

The spread of Hinduism into Southeast Asia

c)

The spread of Buddhism into East Africa

d)

The spread of Zoroastrianism into the Levant

14.

Which of the following reasons best explains the spread of Islam after 750 CE?

a)

Islam continued to spread exclusively by conquests through Muslim Turkish Empires

b)

The spread of Islam was stopped at the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan

c)

Islam continued to spread exclusively through trade in the Indian Ocean and West Africa

d)

Islam continued to spread both through Turkish conquest and through Muslim trade communities and merchants in the Indian Ocean and West Africa

15.

Which of the following best explains the population spike seen during the Song Dynasty?

a)

The collection of tributes from protectorate states during the Golden Age of Imperial China

b)

The successful absorption of previously-conquered minorities from Central Asia by the Tang

c)

The adoption of the qanat system from the Persians

d)

The inclusion of Champa rice as staple food

16.

Which of the following factors contributed to world population growth during the Post-Classical Era?

a)

The ‘Little Ice Age’

b)

The spread of agricultural goods such as bananas and coconuts to Africa

c)

The end of pastoral and nomadic invasions

d)

The ‘warm period’ of the 8th to 14th centuries

17.

Which of the following statements best exemplifies the growth of city-states during the Post-Classical Era?

a)

Economic innovations such as trade unions like the Hanseatic League

b)

The rapid growth of interregional trade facilitated by the Muslim states and Mongol Empire

c)

The influence of imperial China’s Golden Age economic affluence and consistency

d)

Navigational innovations that allowed for better travel and access to advantageously-positioned cities

18.

Which of the following best explains the tone of Post-Classical explorers?

a)

Explorers were often impressed by other civilizations, pulling them in high regard

b)

Explorers often merely sought to establish trade connections with their mother state

c)

Most explorations were religiously motivated

d)

Explorers in foreign civilizations generally tended to hold condescending and judgmental views of the population in question

19.

Which of the following best explains Ibn Battuta’s criticism of the West African Muslims?

a)

Islam in the Arab world was far less assiduous than Islam in West Africa

b)

Islam in the Arab world was far more influenced by Persian culture

c)

The Arab world was far more patriarchal than their West African counterparts

d)

Women experienced far more individual freedom in the Arab world

20.

What circumstances perhaps explain the variation in the practice of Islam between the Arab and West African world?

a)

Arab caliphates rigidly ruled by Sharia law

b)

West African kingdoms often did not impose Sharia law on citizens in the Postclassical Era

c)

West African kingdoms were often influenced by European Christianity in the Postclassical Era

d)

Arabs could not agree on a unified interpretation of Islam due to the Sunni and Shia conflicts