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AP World History Name __________________
1450-1900
MC Questions Due by Monday 3/5
1. The potato originated in
A.
C. Eastern
Europe D.
10. The central institution of the Aztec state was the
A. priesthood. B. army. C. peasantry. D. great landed estates.
13. The Maya were most advanced in their
A. mathematics. B. literature. C. agriculture. D. architecture.
17. The
A. central Mexico. B.
the Panamanian isthmus. C. southern
1. The Renaissance began in
A. the
C. France. D. Florence.
3. A major difference between northern and Italian humanism is that northern humanism stressed
A. economic gain and materialism. B. social reform based on Christian ideals.
C. pagan virtues. D. scholastic dogma over reason.
5. In the Thirty Years'
A. Spain. B. the German Catholics.
C. the German Protestants.
D. the
7. The term Renaissance means
A. a rise in the average standard of living among the masses.
B. a resurgence of art and culture in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries.
C. an increase in the population after the ravaging effects of the ""Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.""
D. the recovery of the church from economic and moral decline.
9. Erasmus advocated
A. paganism.
B. Christian education for moral and intellectual improvement.
C. a monastic life of contemplation and divorce from the material world.
D. obedience to church doctrine and ritual.
12. The best description of Machiavelli's THE PRINCE is that it is
A. a description of how government should be organized and implemented.
B. a satire on sixteenth-century politics.
C. a call for Italian nationalism.
D. an accurate description of politics as practiced in Renaissance Italy.
13.
A. Henry
III. B. Francis
I. C. Charles
IX. D.
Henry IV of
14. Just before the advent of Ferdinand and
Isabella, the
A. a homogeneous region sharing a common language and cultural tradition.
B. a heterogeneous region consisting of several ethnic groups with a diversity of linguistic and cultural characteristics.
C. tolerant of religious and ethnic traditions different from Christianity.
D. a region dominated equally by Arabs and Jews.
16. According to Luther, salvation comes through
A. good works. B. faith. C. indulgences. D. a saintly life.
17. The cornerstone of Calvin's theology was his belief in
A. predestination. B. indulgences.
C. the basic goodness of man. D. religious tolerance and freedom.
19. The Reformation in
A. a politically weaker
C. no political changes of importance D. a victory for imperial centralization.
20. The great Christian humanists of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries believed that reform could be achieved
through
A. the use of violent revolution. B. education and social change.
C. mass support of the church hierarchy. D. the election of a new pope.
22. Calvinism was appealing to the middle classes for each of the following reasons except
A. its stress on leisure and ostentatious living.
B. its heavy moral emphasis.
C. its approval of any job well done, hard work, and success.
D. its intellectual emphasis.
23. The Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War,
A. refused to recognize
the independence of the United
provinces of the
B. completely undermined the
C. further strengthened
the
D. maintained that only Catholicism and Lutheranism were legitimate religions.
1. Mercantilism
A. was a military system.
B. insisted on a favorable balance of trade.
C. was adopted in
D. claimed that state power was based on land armies.
2. French Protestants tended to be
A. poor peasants.
B. the power behind the throne of Louis XIV.
C. a financial burden for
D. clever business people.
5. Of the following,
the country most centered on middle-class interests was
A. England. B.
Spain. C. France. D. the
6. Which of the following is a characteristic of
an absolute state?
A. Sovereignty embodied in the representative assembly
B. Bureaucracies solely accountable to the middle classes
C. A strong voice expressed by the nobility
D. Permanent standing armies
8. Cromwell's government is best described as a
A. constitutional state. B. democratic state.
C. military dictatorship. D. monarchy.
11. The Peace of
A. shrunk the size of
the
B. represented the balance-of-power principle in action.
C. enhanced
D. marked the beginning of French expansionist policy.
12. The downfall of
A. weak and ineffective monarchs.
B. an overexpansion of industry and trade.
C. the growth of slave labor in
D. the rise of a large middle class.
14. Which of the following men
was a proponent of the idea that the purpose of government is to protect life,
liberty, and property?
A. Thomas
Hobbes B. William of
C. John Locke D. Edmund Burke
16. The Dutch economy in the 17th century was based on
A. fishing, world trade, and banking.
B. silver mining in
C. export of textiles.
D. a moral and religious disdain of wealth.
17. The unifiers and first rulers of the
Russians were the
A. Mongols. B. Turks. C. Romanovs. D. Vikings.
20. Peter the Great's reforms included
A. compulsory education away from home for the higher classes.
B. a lessening of the burdens of serfdom for Russian peasants.
C. an elimination of the merit-system bureaucracy.
D. the creation of an independent parliament.
22. Apparently the most important reason for the return to serfdom in eastern Europe from about 1500 to 1650 was
A. political. B. economic. C. military. D. religious.
25. The rise of the Russian monarchy was largely a
response to the external threat of the
A. French monarchy. B. Asiatic Mongols.
C. Prussian monarchy. D. English monarchy.
2. ""Enlightened"" monarchs
believed in all of the following except
A. reform.
B. democracy.
C. cultural values of the Enlightenment.
D. secularism.
7. According to medieval European thought, the center of the universe was the
A. sun. B. earth. C. moon. D. heaven.
8. Babur
was a
A. Mongol. B. Safavid. C. Turk. D. Mughal.
9. Which of the following statements best
describes Akbar's rule in
A. He developed an efficient bureaucracy.
B. He employed only Muslim officials.
C. He demanded religious conformity.
D. He instituted the jizya, a tax on non-Muslim adult males.
10. The decline of the Mughal state began under Aurangzeb, whose unsuccessful reforms were basically
A. economic in nature.
B. bureaucratic in nature.
C. religious in nature.
D. political in nature.
11.
A. France. B. Portugal. C. Spain. D.
20. The Mughal
rulers of
A. brought Islamic law and religion to
B. ended Islamic influence in
C. closed
D. failed to develop an efficient bureaucracy.
1. During the Ming era in
A. towns. B. small cities. C. large cities. D. both a and b.
2. In Ming times the entire Chinese population
was divided into three categories according to
A. place of residence. B. occupation. C. religion. D. wealth.
3. Ming
A. pirates. B. curiosities. C. barbarians. D. enemies.
4. The flow of silver into
A. abandonment of the gold standard.
B. prospering of the wealthy merchant class.
C. decline in the value of paper money.
D. sharp drop in the price of silver.
6. Under the Tokugawa
government,
A. emperor. B. shogun.
C. Tokugawa regent. D. council of samurai.
7. Kabuki theater usually depicted
A. crude love and romance.
B. historical events.
C. scenes from court life.
D. folk tales.
9. It may be generally said that during the
Tokugawa era in
A. the country enjoyed peace and development.
B. the country suffered continuous civil strife.
C. people lost their faith in the monarchy.
D. the standard of living declined.
11.
A. were spies for European nations.
B. encouraged Japanese Christians to participate in feudal revolts.
C. preached the overthrow of the shogun.
D. interfered with
13. The Ming agricultural and commercial revolutions were closely linked with
A. an expansion of foreign trade.
B. dramatic improvements in rice production.
C. deurbanization.
D. new methods of government spending.
14. ""Fish farming"" refers to
A. big net fishing off the Chinese coast.
B. fish hatching in government aquariums.
C. farming for half the year and fishing the other half.
D. stocking fish in the rice
paddies.
16. Hong Wu's (a Ming emperor) most enduring reform was his
A. reorganization of the state ministry.
B. implementation of a yearly census.
C. reinstatement of civil service examinations.
D. hereditary categories.
17. The naval expeditions of Zheng He during the Ming period reached as far as
A. the east coast of
B. the east coast of
C. the west coast of
D. southeast Asia.
20. During the later
Ming Dynasty
A. China avoided all foreign trade.
B. China achieved peace with its northern invaders.
C. costs of the imperial court decreased.
D.
21. The Qing Dynasty was established by the
A. Manchus. B. Mongols. C. Japanese. D. Vietnamese.
22. Early on, the Qing gained the support of
A. peasants. B. intellectuals. C. eunuchs. D. landowners.
24. The code by which the samurai lived was called
A. harakiri. B. seppuku. C. Bushido. D. shoen.
26. In Tokugawa Japan the commercial class
A. was outlawed.
B. was considered lowly.
C. was highly esteemed.
D. rose to great power.
1. Eighteenth-century (Western) liberals stressed
A. economic equality. B. equality in property holding.
C. equality of opportunity D. racial and sexual equality.
2. Which came first?
A. Formation of the French National Assembly
B. Execution of King Louis XVI
C. American Bill of Rights
D. Seven Years' War
4. The French National Assembly was established by
A. the middle class of the Third Estate.
B. King Louis XVI.
C. the aristocracy.
D. the sans-culottes.
6. In the first stage of the Revolution the French established
A. a constitutional monarchy.
B. an absolutist monarchy.
C. a republic.
D. a military dictatorship.