AP world history Flashcards

5640409200	The Sahara held rich desposits of which highly valued commodity?	Salt	0
5640409201	The absence of which of the following made long-distance trade in the Americas difficult pre modern era?	Wheeled vehicles	1
5640409202	In which third- wave civilization did the state largely control trade, preventing a professional merchant class from emerging?	Inca	2
5640409203	Between 500 and 1500, the civilizations of Mesoamerica and the Andes	Seem to have had little direct contact with each other	3
5640409204	How did the spread of Islam affect Indian Ocean commerce?	Muslim merchants and sailors established communities of traders from East Africa to the south China coast	4
5640409205	How did the Silk Road trade affect peasants in China?	Peasants focused more on producing luxury goods	5
5640409206	The Political structure of Swahili civilization was similar to the	Competitive and independent city-states of Ancient Greece	6
5640409207	Which of the following characterizes the networks of exchange in the Americas?	Networks were local, with the most active links within rather than between regions	7
5640409208	Which statement characterizes the networks and webs of exchange that connected different parts of the world from 500 to 1500?	Interaction among the major civilizations operated on a relatively equal basis	8
5640409209	The Sand Roads linked North Africa and the Mediterranean world to the land and peoples	Interior West Africa	9
5640409210	Compared to modern American ideas about democracy, Athenian democracy was distinctive in	Urging that all citizens participate directly in lawmaking and policy making	10
5640409211	The Qin dynasty differed from the Zhou in that	It was more centralized	11
5640409212	In the classical period, both China and India	Showed considerable tolerance for different religions	12
5640409213	The development of agriculture caused important changes in all of the following except	The tendency to believe in many gods	13
5640409214	Which of the following groups was considering "low standing" in official Chinese social hierarchy?	Merchants	14
5640409215	Both Rome and the ancient Greeks depended on slavery. One result of this was	Both groups lagged in technological advances when compared to the Chinese or the Indians	15
5640409216	By 600 C. E., an early civilization was beginning to take shape in	Central America	16
5640409217	The characteristics political organization of the Tigris-Euphrates civilization was	Regional city states	17
5640409218	The Senate of republican Rome particularly represented	The landed aristocracy	18
5640409219	India's political tradition	Stressed the importance of regional and local units	19
5640409220	One difference between classical civilizations and river valley civilizations was that in classical civilizations	Political organizations were more elaborate	20
5640409221	Hunting and gathering societies	Organize rather small groups into political units	21
5640409222	The Paleolithic Age refers to	The period in which simple stone tools were developed	22
5640409223	Which of the following contributed to the doubling of the Chinese population during the Tang and Song dynasties?	The adoption of a fast-ripening strain of rice from Vietnam	23
5640409224	Those who participated in the Chinese tribute system gained	The opportunity to trade in China	24
5640409225	Which of the following explains why women's lives were more restricted in the Song Dynasty than in the Tang Dynasty?	The revival of Confucianism	25
5640409226	Which of the following contributed to China's economic prosperity during the Tang and Song Dynasties?	A complex network of internal waterways that provided cheap transportation	26
5640409227	What do the Xiongnu, the Uighurs, the Khitan, and the Jurchen have in common?	All four required China to send them valuable goods in return for not attacking China	27
5640409228	Which of the following was technological innovation that spread from China to the rest of Eurasia?	Printing	28
5640409229	Which of the following was a factor in the growth of Buddhism in China after 300 C. E.?	Disorder increased following the collapse of the Han Dynasty, which discredited Confucianism	29
5640409230	Which of the following was a political contribution of the Tang and Song dynasties?	The introduction of administrative procedures that made the bureaucracy obsolete	30
5640409231	What did Korea, Japan, and Vietnam develop that reflected their unique culture?	Their own writing systems	31
5640409232	Which of the following shows the effect of the Indian a ocean trade on China?	The transformation of southern China from a subsistence economy to an export-oriented economy	32
5640409233	The emergence of the samurai reflected Japan's	decentralized political structure	33
5640498455	Which of the following aspects of Arab tribal life was reinforced in the Quran?	solidarity	34
5640505070	Membership in the Islamic community known as the umma was based on a common	faith	35
5640512009	Which of the following was a feature of Islam that ran counter to Hinduism in India?	the notion of equality of all believers	36
5640520310	Which of the following religious traditions blended elements of Hinduism and Islam?	Sikhism	37
5640527390	Islam had roots in which set of religious or philosophical traditions?	Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism	38
5640530681	Why was the city of Mecca important?	It was the site of the Kaaba, where pilgrims congregated	39
5640540460	Which of the following statements expresses a view of women found in the Quran?	Women were spiritually equal to men	40
5640552348	Sufi practitioners facilitated the conversion to Islam of people living in Anatolia and India by	emphasizing personal experience of the divine rather than the law	41
5640558688	Which of the following was a goal of the education offered at the madrassas?	To preserve an established body of Islamic learning	42
5640575508	Which of the following refers to the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims should try to make at least once in their lifetime?	Hajj	43
5640646125	Which of the following is an example of a European innovation made possible by borrowing technologies from other civilizations?	The use of gunpowder in cannons	44
5640664409	Which of the following features of the Byzantine Empire did the new civilization of Kievan Rus adopt?	The political ideals of imperial control of the Church	45
5640689999	Which of the following describes the relationship between politics and religion in Western Europe from 500 to 1300?	Rulers provided protection for the Church in return for religious legitimacy	46
5640699488	Which of the following was evidence of the expansion and growth of European civilization during the High Middle Ages?	There was a considerable increase in long-distance trade	47
5640713784	Which of the following describes Christian communities in the Middle East and North Africa from 650 to 1300?	Shrinking communities of second-class subjects	48
5640724758	How did economic growth and urbanization during the High Middle Ages affect women in Western Europe?	Women practiced trades and sometimes trained female apprentices	49
5640742907	What advantage did the Byzantine Empire have that enabled it to survive as a political entity for a thousand years longer than the western part of the Roman Empire?	A stronger military	50
5640750727	Which of the following was a long-term impact of the Crusades in Europe?	Spain, Sicily, and the Baltic region permanently joined the world of Western Christendom	51
5640761397	Disagreement over which of the following contributed to the split between the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church?	Veneration of icons	52
5640775987	In Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, what system emerged that emphasizes the reciprocal ties between a king and his vassals, and between a lord and his serfs?	Feudalism	53
5640784045	Which of the following describes a feature of the Byzantine state?	The emperor claimed to be God's representative on earth	54
5640787226	Which of the following brought the Byzantine Empire to an end?	The capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire	55
5642511426	What aspects of Chinese civilization did Mongol rulers in the Yuan dynasty adopt?	The traditional Confucian rituals	56
5642511427	Which of the following was a long-term effect of the Black Death on European society?	Labor shortages that weakened serfdom	57
5642511428	Which of the following facilitated the creation of the Mongol Empire?	The territories the Mongols invaded were experiencing internal divisions	58
5642511429	Which of the following describes pastoral societies' relationship with agricultural societies?	Pastoral societies sought foodstuffs, manufactured goods, and luxury items from agricultural societies	59
5642511430	Mongol rule in Russia facilitated the rise to power of which city?	Moscow	60
5642511431	In comparison to the Mongol conquests of Persia and China, Mongol rule in Russia	Was not accompanied by Mongol occupation	61
5642511432	Like the Arabs and the Persians, the Turks between the tenth and fourteenth centuries	Converted to Islam and introduced the religion to the areas they conquered	62
5642511433	Which of the following describes the role pastoral societies played in world history before the Mongol Empire?	They created a series of pastoral empires and controlled major trade routes	63
5642511434	A characteristic feature of pastoral societies was their	Mobility	64
5642511435	Which of the following is a reason Western Europe was not conquered by the Mongols?	Western Europe lacked adequate pasture for Mongol herds	65
5642511436	Which reason gained the most from the exchanges of ideas and technologies facilitated by the Mongol Empire?	Europe	66
5642511437	Why did the maritime expeditions of the Indian Ocean basin sponsored by the Ming emperor suddenly stop in 1433?	The emperor's successors viewed expansion as a waste of resources	67
5642511438	In its effort to recover from the disruption of Mongol rule, where did the Mong dynasty look for inspiration?	The culture of past Chinese dynasties	68
5642511439	Which of the following reflected the fragmented and competitive political environment in Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?	The Hundred Years' War	69
5642511440	Which of the following was a motivation for European expansion but not for Chinese expansion in the fifteenth century?	To gain direct access to the wealth of Africa and Asia	70
5642511441	Which if the following is true of the Mughal Empire?	It established unified control over most of the Indian peninsula	71
5642511442	What feature did the Mughal Empire and Songhay Empire share?	The rulers were Muslim, but the majority of the population was not	72
5642511443	The wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to the	Practice of human sacrifice	73
5642511444	In the fifteenth century, the gathering and hunting way of life associated with the Paleolithic era persisted in	Australia	74
5642511445	Which of the following was the most centralized, unified, and prosperous of the world's major civilizations in the fifteenth century?	China	75
5642511446	Which of the following was a value emphasized in the Renaissance?	Humanism	76
5642511447	Which empire ended the Byzantine Empire and came the closest to conquering Europe?	Ottoman Empire	77
5642511448	How was Islam introduced into Southeast Asia and West Africa?	By traveling merchants	78
5642511449	In what way were the Aztec and Inca empires similar?	Both were marginal people who conquered and absorbed older cultures	79
5642511450	What did the Aztec Empire require conquered people to do?	Pay tribute	80
5642511451	In the fifteenth century, long-distance trade shifted to	East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean	81
5642511452	Which of the following distinguished the empires of Western Europe from other empires?	They were initiated by maritime expansion	82
5642511453	Which of the following region experienced the least racial mixing and was the least willing to recognize the offspring of interracial unions?	British North America	83
5642511454	Which of the following was a reason that Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain were the first to expand into the New World?	They were on the Atlantic coast and were closer to the Americas	84
5642511455	Why did some Native Americans aid the Spanish in their initial invasion of the New World?	To gain an advantage against their own enemies	85
5642511456	The colonial economy of the Spanish Empire in former Aztec and Inca lands was	Based on commercial agriculture and mining	86
5642511457	How did many Native Americans in Mesoamerica and Peru respond to Spanish missionaries' efforts to convert them to Catholicism?	They blended their old customs into Catholic practices	87
5642511458	Which of the following describes slavery in Latin America?	Large-Scale importation of new slaves continued into the nineteenth century	88
5642511459	How did Chinese and Russian expansion into Central Asia affect the nomadic people inhabiting the steppe lands?	They no longer enjoyed political independence and economic prosperity	89
5642511460	The Mughal ruler Akbar favored policies that promoted	A cosmopolitan (worldly) and hybrid Indian-Persian-Turkic culture	90
5642511461	Which of the following was a result of the Ottoman Empire's policy toward the Christian population in southeastern Europe?	Christian communities enjoyed considerable autonomy over their own affairs	91
5642511462	Which if the following was an outcome of the establishment of European empires in the Americas.	The emergence of an Atlantic world connecting four continents	92
5642511463	How did silver from the mines of Mexico and Peru affect international commerce?	It enabled Europeans to buy Chinese tea, silk, and porcelain	93
5642511464	Which of the following is an example of the Columbian exchange?	The introduction of corn and potatoes into the Afro-Eurasian diet	94
5642511465	Which of the following policies contributed to the growth of Hindu opposition to Mughal rule by the late seventeenth century?	Reinstatement of the jizya	95
5642511466	Which of the following resulted from Russia's westward expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?	A program of westernization in Russia	96