AP World History Flashcards

2934889230	which of the following statements concerning inter-clan relationships in bedouin society is most accurate	inter-clan violence over control of water and pasturage was common	0
2934889231	what was the result of inter-clan rivalries	it weakened the bedouin in comparison to neighboring peoples and empires	1
2934889232	what clan was responsible for the foundation of Mecca	Umayyad	2
2934889233	What was the Ka'ba	the religious shrine that was the focus of an annual truce	3
2934889234	What was the major difference between Medina and Mecca	Political dominance in Medina was ocntested between a number of Jewish and bedouin tribes.	4
2934889235	which of the following statements most accurately describes the status of women in bedouin society prior to Islam	women in pre-Islamic bedouin culutre enjoyed greater freedom and higher status than those of the Byzantine and Persian Empires.	5
2934889236	what was the nature of pre-Islamic bedouin religion	bedouin religion for most clans was a blend of animism and polytheism focusing on the worship of nature spirits	6
2934889237	what was the clan into which Muhammad was born	Banu Hashim	7
2934889238	what was the initial response of the Umayyads to Muhammad's new faith	they regarded him as a threat to their wealth and power as he questioned the traditional gods of the Ka'ba	8
2934889239	what was the principle advantage of the Islamic concept of the ummah	it transcended old tribal boundaries and made possible political unity among Arab clans	9
2934889240	which of the following represents a mounting pressure for change in pre-Islamic society greater	Byzantine and Sassanian control over Arabic tribes of the peninsula and Arabic migration to Mesopotamia	10
2934889241	which of the following statements concerning Muhammad's flight to Medina is NOT correct	Muhammad fled from Mecca with nearly one quarter of the city's population	11
2934889242	the Umayyads were threatened by all of the following developments EXCEPT	Muhammad's destruction of the Ka'ba	12
2934889243	What was Muhammad's teachings with respect to the revelations of other monotheistic religions	Muhammad accepted the validity of earlier Christian and Judaic revelations and taught that his own revelations were a final refinement and reformulation of earlier ones	13
2934889244	which of the following was NOT a reason for the decline of the Abbasid dynasty by the ninth century AD	the collapse of the cities	14
2934889245	which of the following groups did NOT revolt against Abbasid rule	Sunnis	15
2934889246	how did the Caliph al-Mahdi resolve the problem of succession in the Abbasid dynasty	he failed to resolve the problem of dynastic succession with disastrous results	16
2934889247	what was the fictional account of life at the court of the Caliph al-Rashid	The thousand and one nights	17
2934889248	how did the administration of al-Rashid set a trend for subsequent Abbasid rulers	he was at the outset of his reign heavily dependent on Persian advisers, a practice that became commonplace thereafter	18
2934889249	what was the result of the civil wars following the deaht of al-Rashid	candidates for the throne recognized the need to build up personal armies, often of slave soldiers	19
2934889250	which of the following statements concerning the mercenary armies of the later Abbasid era is NOT accurate	despite their tendency toward random violence, they loyally defended the Abbasid Caliphs	20
2934889251	what accounts for the disruption of the agricultural economy of the Abbasid Empire	spiralling taxation, the destruction of the irrigation works, and pillaging by mercenary armies led to destruction and abandonment of many villages	21
2934889252	what was the innovation of the Abbasid court with respect to women	the creation of Islamic nunneries	22
2934889253	what was the attitude of the Abbasid's towards the institution of slavery the Abbasid elite demanded	growing numbers of both male and female slaves for concubines and domestic service	23
2934889254	why were the practices of seclusion and veiling seen as essential in Islamic society	women were believed to be possessed of insatiable lust from which men had to be protected	24
2934889255	which of the following statements concerning women during the Abbasid era is most accurate	women often married at puberty, set at age nine	25
2934889256	what was the trend of urbanization during much of the Abbasid Empire	despite political disintegration and a decline in agricultural economy, towns continued to grow rapidly	26
2934889257	what was the primary language of the later Abbasid court	Persian	27
2934889258	what was the difference between the Islamic invasions of India and previous incursions of the subcontinent	with the Muslims, the peoples of India encountered for the first time a large-scale influx of invaders with a civilization as sophisticated as their own	28
2934889259	how did Islam and Hinduism differ	Islam stressed the egalitarianism of all believers, while Hinduism embraced a caste-based social system	29
2934889260	what was Harsha's religious policy	Harsha remained steadfastly loyal to Hinduism and suppressed the few remaining Buddhist monasteries in his empire	30
2934889261	which of the following is most correctly seen as a direct descendant of the Roman Empire	Byzantine Empire	31
2934889262	The Byzantine Empire lasted from roughly	500-1450	32
2934889263	which of the following territories was always part of the Byzantine Empire	Balkans	33
2934889264	the significance of the Byzantine Empire included all of the following EXCEPT	the empire's conquest of the Ottoman Empire and its inclusion of all of the Middle East	34
2934889265	Which of the following does NOT represent a similarity between the spread of civilization in eastern and western Europe	Northern political units rapidly dominated the political sophistication of civilization areas in Asia and North Africa	35
2934889266	what was the difference in the military organization of Byzantine and western Roman Empires	the Byzantine Empire recruited men from the Middle East	36
2934889267	the name normally given to the form of Christianity that emerged in the Byzantine Empire was	Orthodox Christianity	37
2934889268	what Eastern emperor was responsible for the attempted restoration of a united Roman Empire after 533	Justinian	38
2934889269	all of the following were outcomes of Justinian's wars of reconquest EXCEPT	the permanent addition of Rome to the Byzantine Empire	39
2934889270	after the seventh century, what group posed the greatest threat to the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire	the Arab Muslims	40
2934889271	in which of the following ways were the Byzantine bureaucracy and the Chinese bureaucracy similar	both bureaucracies were open to talented commoners, not just aristocrats	41
2934889272	which of the following statements concerning Byzantine military organization is most accurate	the Byzantine Empire recruited troops within the empire by granting heritable land in return for military service	42
2934889273	which of the following statements concerning urbanization within the Byzantine Empire is most correct	Constantinople controlled the economy and grew to enormous size, but other cities were relatively small	43
2934889274	which of the following statements concerning the merchant class of the Byzantine Empire is most accurate	there was a large and wealthy merchant class in the Byzantine Empire, but it never gained significant political power because of the power of the bureaucracy	44
2934889275	the religious controversy over the use of religious images in worhip that broke out in the tenth century was called	the iconoclastic controversy	45
2934889276	what two missionaries were responsible for the creation of a written script for Slavic language	Cyril and Methodius	46
2934889277	why did Vladimir I prefer Orthodox Christianity to Roman Catholicism	he believed that Roman Catholicism implied papal interference, while Orthodoxy embraced the control of the church by state	47
2934889278	of the following statements concerning the Tatar invasion of Russia is most accurate	Tatar supervision did not destroy Russian Christianity or a native Russian aristocracy	48