AP World History Period 1: 1200-1450, Global Tapestry (Cumulative Review)

Question 1

Trans-Saharan caravan routes helped spread which religion throughout North and West Africa?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 2

Feudalism is best described as

Accepted Answer

decentralized, with monarchs giving vassals land for service

Question 3

Where were the fields of algebra and trigonometry developed?

Accepted Answer

the Islamic Middle East

Question 4

Which country’s innovations included gunpowder, the magnetic compass, and paper money?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 5

Medieval Europeans were most directly involved in which of the following trade networks?

Accepted Answer

Mediterranean sea lanes

Question 6

Which of the following is true of Johannes Gutenberg?

Accepted Answer

He made moveable-type fast and affordable.

Question 7

The Mesoamerican technique of growing crops on floating islands in lakes was called

Accepted Answer

chinampas

Question 8

Which religion did most to legitimize Chinese imperial rule?

Accepted Answer

Confucianism

Question 9

This ship from China featured a stern rudder and was sturdy enough for deepwater voyages.

Accepted Answer

the junk

Question 10

Trade and navigation across the Indian Ocean basin were aided by what kind of weather?

Accepted Answer

monsoon winds

Question 11

The outrigger canoe enabled the long migration, ending around 1200, of which people?

Accepted Answer

Polynesians

Question 12

Mongol khanates established this along the Silk Road, facilitating cultural, economical, and technological diffusion.

Accepted Answer

the Pax Mongolica

Question 13

Trade in which body of water was enabled by the vessel known as the dhow?

Accepted Answer

Indian Ocean

Question 14

Which religion gave birth to a caste system dominated by brahmins (priests) and kshatriyas (warriors)?

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 15

Bananas and citrus fruits are thought to have originated in

Accepted Answer

Southeast Asia

Question 16

This was meant to provide women with some financial security before entering marriage.

Accepted Answer

dowry

Question 17

This northern hemispheric trend affected agriculture, hunting, fishing, and travel between the 1300s and mid-1800s.

Accepted Answer

Little Ice Age

Question 18

The Hongwu Emperor took advantage of China’s Red Turban revolts to establish which dynasty?

Accepted Answer

the Ming

Question 19

Where in late medieval Europe (1300–1500) did the cultural revival known as the Renaissance first occur?

Accepted Answer

the Italian city-states

Question 20

Before the Renaissance, poets like Dante and Chaucer changed European literature by

Accepted Answer

writing in vernacular languages

Question 21

Marco Polo traveled from Venice to Asia along which trade route?

Accepted Answer

the Silk Road

Question 22

Caravanserais served which purpose on the Silk Road?

Accepted Answer

inns

Question 23

Who did NOT form part of the emerging middle class in European cities after 1400?

Accepted Answer

peasants

Question 24

What city dominated trade in present-day Mexico and served the Aztecs (Mexica) as their capital?

Accepted Answer

Tenochtitlan

Question 25

Which disease is linked with the Black Death pandemic that swept Eurasia in the mid-1300s?

Accepted Answer

bubonic plague

Question 26

This Anglo-French conflict featured painful peasant revolts and the rise of Joan of Arc.

Accepted Answer

Hundred Years' War

Question 27

The Mississippian cultures in pre-Columbian North America were best known for creating

Accepted Answer

large earth mounds

Question 28

What device eased navigation by accurately measuring the altitude of objects in the sky?

Accepted Answer

astrolabe

Question 29

This Chinese admiral recorded his 7 years of travel to Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and East Africa.

Accepted Answer

Zheng He

Question 30

What form of coerced labor involves periodic large-scale tasks ordered by one’s state or landlord?

Accepted Answer

corvée labor

AP World History Period 1: 1200-1450, Global Tapestry (Cumulative Review)

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AP World History Period 1: 1200-1450, Global Tapestry (Cumulative Review)

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