AP World History Semester Test Flashcards

287955809	The development of agriculture caused important changes in all of the following EXCEPT	the tendency to believe in many gods	0
287955810	The development of writing	helps explain why governments could become formal and bureaucratic	1
287955811	How did the Hindu doctorine of "dharma" impact Indian society	it fostered the formation of rigid social and economic groups	2
287955812	Which of the following best describes how Chinese imperial elites viewed their civilization in relation to the rest of the world	China was a unique and superior civilization surrounded by barbarians of one sort or another	3
287955813	In Chinese tradition, the "Mandate of Heaven" refers to	divine blessing of the rule of an emperor	4
287955814	Hellenistic culture epitomizes which of the following historical forces or trends?	cultural diffusion	5
287955815	Which of the following parings most accurately reflects existing trade connections in the Greco-Roman era?	Han-Roman	6
287955816	Which policy did both the Roman and Han armies tend to implement upon taking control of a foreign land?	Relative autonomy for cooperative local elites	7
287955817	Why did the western portion of the Roman Empire suffer so much more in the breakdown of Roman imperial unity than the regions of the Eastern Roman Empire(Byzantium)?	the Eastern Roman world had traditionally been more economically vibrant due to more active trade links with the East	8
287955818	Which of the following civilizations afforded the greatest degree of citizen input into government policy?	Roman	9
287955819	One major diffrence between the fall of Han China and that of the Roman Empire was	dynastic china would return to equal and even greater prominence	10
287955820	If the Greek genius was politics, the Roman genius was	engineering	11
287955821	Although Islam developed in Mecca and Medina, all of these influenced Islam's orgins EXCEPT	Greco-Roman culture	12
287955822	One aspect of Islam that made it a universalizing religion was its	egalitarianism that transcended previous loyalties, ethnicities or allegiances	13
287955823	Islam means	"submission"	14
287955824	Which two Muslim cities retain the greatest symbolic or religious significance in Islam to this day?	III and V	15
287955825	Which of the following DOES NOT belong in the list of characteristics that is common to the fall of both the Roman and Abbasid empires?	imperial conversion to a new religion	16
287955826	The proliferation of technical advances and growing wealth of the Abbasid Caliphate was most closely match by which contemporaneous area of civilization?	Song China	17
287955827	Which of the following was the common unifying feature of sub-Saharan African societies in the post classical era?	common Bantu linguistic roots	18
287955828	Which of the following is the orgins of the Swahili language?	Arabic-Bantu mix	19
287955829	How was the institution of slavery viewed in Muslim society?	In theory, slavery was seen as a stage in the process of converting to Islam	20
287955830	Which of the following European regions felt the influence of the Byzantine civilization in the post classical peroid?	Russia	21
287955831	After the fall of the western portions of the Roman Empire, the official tongue in Constantinople shifted from Latin to	Greek	22
287955832	Russian civilization emerged nearest to what modern city?	Kiev	23
287955833	Kievan Rus is unique in world history because	it adopted religious and bureaucratic practices from a neighboring civilization	24
287955834	Which group was most likely to be literate in the Dark Ages?	monks	25
287955835	Which of the following matches this definition: "agricultural laborer tied to an estates with rights including military protection, heritable ownership of a plot of land, and owing obligation to share crop yields each season with her/his lord"?	serf	26
287955836	Which of the following possessed the greatest influence in the centuries immediately following the fall of the Roman Empire?	Catholic Church	27
287955837	By 1500, agriculture was	largely diffused throughout the Americas, although not always in sendentary agricultural communities	28
287955838	Which of the following was utilized in the Inca empire, but NOT by the Aztecs?	extensive use of colonization	29
287955839	Which of the following statements about the population of the Americas is most true?	the population of the Americas was nearly the same as that of contemporary Europe (not including Russia)	30
287955840	Which of the following statements concerning the Aztec capital of Tenochititlan in NOT accurate?	Despite the existence of thousands of houses and other varieties of domestic architecture, unlike other Mesoamerican cities it lacked a temple complex	31
287955841	What was the primary reform that the Sui emperor enacted?	the construction of the Grand Canal	32
287955842	Which of the following IS NOT a development during the Tang- Song periods?	military domination of the seas	33
287955843	Why was the construction of the Grand Canal necessary?	the canal connected the larger population of Northern China with the agricultural production centers of the south	34
287955844	Warrior leaders in Japan who controlled provincial areas bad ruled from small fortresses were called	bushi	35
287955845	Which of the following Chinese traits were NOT introduced to Vietnam following the Han conquest?	Chinese insistence on the extended family	36
287955846	Which of the following concerning the status of women during the era of the daimyos is most accurate?	Daughters of the bushi often received some martial training, but women were disinherited and treated as defenseless appendages of men	37
287955847	What religion played a key role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan?	Buddhism	38
287955848	What was the status of Mongol women during the Yuan dynasty of China?	they were relatively independent, retained property rights and refused foot binding	39
287955849	Which of the following WAS NOT a positive aspect of Chinggis Khan's rule?	grazing lands were created in China for the Mongols	40