AP World History Unit 2 Content Test Review

Question 1

Buddhist individuals who reached spiritual perfection but stayed on Earth to help others

Accepted Answer

Bodhisattvas

Question 2

Why was Paul moved to Rome to be executed?

Accepted Answer

As a Roman, he had a right to appeal

Question 3

Who was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey?

Accepted Answer

Homer

Question 4

Which epic deals with the Trojan War?

Accepted Answer

The Iliad

Question 5

What was the name of the Germanic leader that overthrew Romulus Augustus and Western Rome?

Accepted Answer

Odoacer

Question 6

What was the name given to the wealthy classes in the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

Patricians

Question 7

Which emperor issued the Edict of Milan?

Accepted Answer

Constantine

Question 8

What was the Zoroastrian view on the material world?

Accepted Answer

It must be embraced in moderation

Question 9

Which epic deals with Odysseus' journey home from war?

Accepted Answer

The Odyssey

Question 10

What was the purpose of the Edict of Milan?

Accepted Answer

Tolerance of Christianity

Question 11

What is the title given to the Roman leader discussed in this clip from The Dark Knight?

Accepted Answer

Dictator

Question 12

What major event in 327 B.C. caused India to come under control of a new people?

Accepted Answer

Invasion of Alexander the Great

Question 13

Prior to the Aryans, India was made up of __________

Accepted Answer

Small kingdoms

Question 14

What was Zhang Qian's mission?

Accepted Answer

Recruit allies to fight the Xiongnu

Question 15

What does the Greek word -polis mean?

Accepted Answer

A refuge for citizens in time of war or emergency

Question 16

Which Chinese word expresses the concept of filial piety?

Accepted Answer

xiao

Question 17

Persian administrative districts were called what?

Accepted Answer

Satrapies

Question 18

What was the political structure of the Greeks in the early classical period?

Accepted Answer

Independent city-states

Question 19

Which group of nomadic invaders threatened Han China?

Accepted Answer

Xiongnu

Question 20

What philosophy did NOT help the Qin/Han Dynasties in their efforts to foster cultural unity?

Accepted Answer

Manichaeism

Question 21

Who was the father of Alexander the Great?

Accepted Answer

Philip II

Question 22

Who wrote the Indika?

Accepted Answer

Megasthenes

Question 23

Which philosophy doubted the possibility of certain knowledge?

Accepted Answer

Skepticism

Question 24

What was the easternmost point on the main Silk Roads?

Accepted Answer

Chang'an

Question 25

Saint Augustine encouraged deeper Christian thought by linking it to what kind of philosophy?

Accepted Answer

Platonic

Question 26

What was the name of Cyrus' son, and the inheritor of the Persian throne?

Accepted Answer

Cambyses

Question 27

Persian administrative organization was based on which earlier civilization?

Accepted Answer

Mesopotamia

Question 28

Who is considered to be the founder of Rome?

Accepted Answer

Romulus

Question 29

Which philosophy taught that all people are part of a single family?

Accepted Answer

Stoics

Question 30

What does "Christ" mean?

Accepted Answer

the Messiah, or anointed One

Question 31

What caused India's politics to change in the 500s B.C. ?

Accepted Answer

Invasion by the Persians

Question 32

Which Persian empire was inherited from Alexander the Great's general?

Accepted Answer

Seleucid

Question 33

The Qin emperor took power in China after a long period known as __________

Accepted Answer

Warring States Period

Question 34

What type of government was Rome under Caesar Augustus?

Accepted Answer

Monarchy

Question 35

The Analects are the collection of which philosopher's sayings and teachings?

Accepted Answer

Confucius

Question 36

According to Confucius, how are political and social harmony achieved?

Accepted Answer

Proper ordering of relationships

Question 37

Knossos was the home of the grand palaces of which civilization?

Accepted Answer

Minoans

Question 38

By what means was Buddhism spread from India to China?

Accepted Answer

Merchants

Question 39

Which apostle spread the Gospel throughout the Roman Empire most effectively?

Accepted Answer

Paul

Question 40

The Mycenaeans adapted the Minoan language to create a new language called ________

Accepted Answer

Linear B

Question 41

Which religion was fiercely persecuted, and later accepted by the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

Christianity

Question 42

What was the Chinese philosophy that helped unify China under the Qin emperor?

Accepted Answer

Legalism

Question 43

In the early Roman Republic, patricians elected 2 high-ranking officials called __________

Accepted Answer

Consuls

Question 44

Who led the rise of the Persian Empire?

Accepted Answer

Cyrus

Question 45

In what year did Western Rome fall?

Accepted Answer

A.D. 476

Question 46

Which was the first of the Persian empires?

Accepted Answer

Achaemenids

Question 47

Who was the famous Chinese historian from Chang'an known for opposing the emperor?

Accepted Answer

Sima Qian

Question 48

Which philosophy identified pleasure as the greatest good?

Accepted Answer

Epicureanism

Question 49

Who was able to participate in Athenian democracy?

Accepted Answer

All male citizens

Question 50

Which ruler unified northern India shortly after the death of Alexander the Great?

Accepted Answer

Chandragupta Maurya

Question 51

When the Mauryan Empire collapsed, India ___________

Accepted Answer

Again became a group of small kingdoms

Question 52

Who ruled over the Persian Empire at its greatest extent?

Accepted Answer

Darius

Question 53

Which religion ended during the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

Mithraism

Question 54

What was the name given to Zarathustra's hymns that honored various deities?

Accepted Answer

Gathas

Question 55

Which philosophy emphasized a life of reflection and introspection, rather than activism?

Accepted Answer

Daoism

AP World History Unit 2 Content Test Review

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AP World History Unit 2 Content Test Review

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