AP World History Final Exam Review

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

Which pre-Columbian empire built a major road network and major temples in the Andes?

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

Since 1900, world population has ____.

Involvement in what wars sharpened medieval Europeans' knowledge of and appetite for Asian luxury goods?

This crop from the Americas, yielding many calories per acre, helped cause rapid population growth in Eurasia.

Several European governments relied on ____ to alleviate the risks and costs of overseas colonization.

Bananas and citrus fruits are thought to have originated in

This event led to the creation of Japan's first modern constitution.

In what country did a figurehead emperor reclaim power from the military regime that traditionally protected his throne?

This German monk began the Protestant Reformation by protesting the Papacy's sale of indugences.

In places that experienced the Industrial Revolution, the numbers of which social class grew most rapidly?

After Rome's fall in the west, what state on Europe's eastern edge carried on Rome's legacy for centuries?

In Japanese history, Tokugawa Ieyasu is famous for _____.

After 1500, sugar, tobacco, and coffee became important ___ in the Americas.

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

What monocultural crop was most associated with China and India during the 1800s?

Using monumental architecture to make a government seem more impressive is considered a ____ technique.

What variety of rice yielded two harvests per year in Southeast Asia?

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

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

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 to protest

The post-WWII modernization of agriculture in many parts of the less developed world is called _____.

What radical and traumatic economic transformation did Mao Zedong force on China in the late 1950s?

What outcome resulted from Stalin's and Mao's efforts to collectivize agriculture in the USSR and China?

In Africa during the 1600s, this female leader led troops and resisted Portuguese colonization.

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

What U.S. program during the early Cold War rebuilt post-WWII economies in Europe to reduce communism's appeal there?

_____ was the main commodity that attracted Western merchants to India.

Religious syncretism involves

The power source that first launched Europe's industrial revolution was the

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

In Europe, the Industrial Revolution is generally considered to have begun in

Feudalism is best described as

Monumental architecture in the Ottoman Empire most often took the form of

In early Modern Europe, this term was used to describe prosperous city dwellers, such as merchants

Around 1900, this mammoth engineering effort linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Which of the following is considered a fossil fuel?

Which treaty spelled final defeat for Germany in World War I?

The Ottoman Empire recruited civil servants and elite troops by means of the

Nelson Mandela was a leading figure in which of the following groups?

Military leaders who colonized territory in the Americas for the Spanish crown were called

In U.S. gender history, "Rosie the Riveter" remains an iconic symbol of _____.

Who among the following most directly influenced Martin Luther King's strategy of nonviolent resistance?

In the 1790s, the deadly killer smallpox began to be eradicated by means of

What event in 1917 ended tsarist rule in Russia?

The Enlightenment philosopher John Locke advocated greater respect for

Which is NOT true of Western missionaries in Africa and Asia during the 1800s?

Hernan Cortes is best known for conquering the ____.

What effect did industrialization NOT have on cities in the 1800s?

The rise of the printing press after 1450 most affected which of the following spheres?

Which of the following is NOT true of Timbuktu during the 1200-1450 period?

Portugal's colonizing efforts in the 1400s and 1500s led to a

In the colonial Americas, the term "creole" originally described

Which European cultural movement placed the greatest emphasis on reason and logic?

This regime ruled much of India between the 1500s and the 1800s, gradually losing ground to British colonizers.

Which aspect of the Columbian Exchange contributed most to population decline?

Where did North American women issue an 1848 Declaration of Sentiments calling for greater gender equality?

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

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

Starting in the 1200s, mastery of which technology revolutionized warfare in Europe?

Caravanserais served which purpose on the Silk Road?

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

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

Which religion did most rulers use to legitimize Chinese imperial rule?

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

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

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

The Ottoman Empire shocked the European world by conquering which metropolis in 1453?

Silk Road trade declined after the 1400s because

What violent uprising was prompted by native anger at foreign control over China's port cities?

The author of The Wealth of Nations is often credited as the originator of modern capitalist thinking.

The soldiers who attempted an 1857 revolt against British rule in India were known as _____.

Europe's appetite for what commodity MOST encouraged the rise of the Atlantic slave trade?