AP World History Midterm Review 84 Terms

Multiple Choice Questions with Answer -AP World History Midterm Review

1. Rome offered some level of Rome citizenship to conquered peoples
2. Carthage lost all three Punic Wars
3. Which of the following was conquered last by Rome?
   Gaul
4. The Patron Client Relationship Defined a state of reciprocity between the strong and weak
5. The Struggle of Orders was A conflict between Plebeians and Patricians
6. The Gracchi Brothers succeeded in achieving some of their reforms
7. The Triumvirate formed in 60 B.C. did not include Tiberius
8. Rome's generals was originally constrained by elected civilian government
9. Rome's armies were often made up in part from men from conquered regions
10. During the height of the Roman empire Rome got most its money from precious metals
11. Rome borrowed most from this culture the Greeks
12. Stoicism held all of the following principles except the world is an irrational place
13. The belief system of Rome centered on the emperor as a God
14. Which of the following occurred first? Hannibal invading Italy
15. Which of the following was the first to be made a part of the Roman Empire Sicily
16. The Silk road linked which of the following cities Luoyang and bactra
17. Which of the following was the first emperor of the Flavian dynasty?
    Vespasian
18. Which of the following Greek and Roman gods are linked correctly ?
    Dionysus and Bacchus
19. The barbarians were usually considered inferior by the Romans
20. Once the Goths began to work with iron, contact with the Greeks and Romans resulted in the development of sophisticated tools and weapons
21. The fall of the Roman Empire was hastened by the action of Germanic people
22. A key factor in the decline of Rome was a plague that nearly killed 1/4 of the population in some areas
23. Zenobia, widow of the leader Palmyra led a revolt against the Roman emperor Aurelian
24. Atilla, leader of the huns invaded Italy in 451 C.E.
25. Christianity was initially embraced by the poor of the Roman empire as a means of expressing their dissatisfaction from the power of the Caesar
26. Under the leadership of the emperor Constantine he set the sister capital of Rome called Constantinople
27. The Byzantine empire was centered in Constantinople
28. A significant reason the Byzantine empire survived for 1000 years longer than the Roman empire the administration of government was much more efficient
29. Which of the following groups migrated to Carthage then across the Mediterranean Sea to Rome Vandals, Alans, Sueves
30. Which of the following controlled the largest geographic region Byzantines
31. The Zhou dynasty disintegrated, leading to the Warring States Period
32. The Warring States period led to the rule of the Qin dynasty
33. Which dynasty completed the construction of the Great wall of China?
    Qin dynasty
34. Confucius lived during the Warring States period
35. Of the following, which was one of the five texts not canonized by Confucius the Good Life
36. The administration of the Qin dynasty was characterized by formalized written rules
37. Which had the most influence on the Qin legalism
38. Taoism stressed a closeness to the natural world
39. The Mandate of Heaven blessed moral rulers
40. The fall of the Qin dynasty was hastened most by the hostility of the peasants
41. Over the course of the han dynasty, this group rose to the top of the social and political hierarchy scholars
42. Regarding military policy of the Han empire it is true that nearly all able bodied men had to serve in the military
43. Between the first ordered census of 2 CE and the extended census of 140 CE the population of China sharply dropped to 48 million
44. Chinese silk reached Rome via the first silk route in 57 C.E.
45. Regarding the economic policy of the Han empire Confucians opposed military expansion in part because it was so expensive
46. Sima Qian wrote a nearly complete history of China
47. The three kingdoms and six dynasties period managed to maintain the dominant culture and ethics of earlier times
48. Buddhism in China eventually gained millions of followers
49. The Sui dynasty initially had the support of the peasant farmers
50. The Grand canal, completed during the Sui dynasty, linked which of the following the Yangzi and the Huang He
51. The Tang dynasty was time of the major flowering of Chinese poetry
52. Vietnam had a love-hate relationship with China
53. Korea broke free from direct Chinese control following the collapse of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E.
54. Japan accepted the cultural hegemony of China
55. The 17 point program adopted by Japan included reverence for Buddhism
56. China and Rome were similar in all of the following ways except influence on neighbors
57. China and Rome were different in all of the following ways except gender relationships
58. In which of the following are dynasties arranged in proper chronological order- the Qin, Han, Sui, Tang
59. The Indian subcontinent includes all of the following areas except Tibet
60. Since 3000 B.C.E., most invasions of India have come from the northwest
61. Of the following, who came closest to unifying all of the Indian subcontinent Ashoka
62. Aryan immigrants to the Indus River valley were called aryan because the language they spoke belonged to the Indo- Aryan language group
63. Of the following, which of the following presents legend and folk tales The Puranas
64. Which of the following statements about the Ramayana is incorrect it refers to an earlier time than that depicted in the Mahabharata
65. The aryan peoples in India formed political groupings called Janapas
66. Which of the following was written first The Puranas
67. The Arthasastra used the analogy of the big fish eating the other, smaller one
68. The most important of the internal functions of the Mauryan empire was ensuring that the citizens have the opportunity to pursue the four major goals of Hindu philosophy
69. The caste system of India held that a person's socioeconomic status was hereditary
70. Asoka converted to Buddhism
71. The Kushana were supporters of Buddhism
72. The Gupta empire assured the most control over the heartland of India (Indus and Ganges)
73. The guptas encourage a resurgence of Hindu philosophy
74. The dynasty that completed the Great Wall Qin dynasty
75. which is not a legacy of the hunas an increase in inter regional trade
76. Introduction to Civilization Findings at Roman trade sites dating to about 0 C.E. suggests that of the following groups, this group was least involved in ocean trade between the Roman Empire and India The Indians
77. Which empire/empires left the least amount of records The Indians
78. Asoka's empire was not described in known historical records until a find 100 years ago
79. Over the last two thousand years, India has hosted empires that never managed to expand past the subcontinent
80. In India's history over the last 400 years, this system/ attachment has been most transient (changes) Political
81. The political experience shared by India, Rome and China was invasion and partial conquest by Hunas
82. According to Historian Eliade, "the sacred" must be experienced internally
83. Evidence that neanderthals expressed a religious belief include Burying their dead with flint tools and food
84. According to Martin Luther, the 15th century churches biggest problem indulgences for money

Advanced Placement World History

• 1750 - 1900 CE Multiple Choice Questions

World History

• Which of the following was a major similarity between the goals of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Revolution, such as Mao Zedong, and the goals of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution, such as Emiliano Zapata, in the early twentieth century?
• Which of the following statements best represents a nationalistic interpretation of the collapse of the Ottoman and Russian empires during and immediately after the First World War?
• What was the leading cause of the unprecedented increase in global population in the twentieth century?
• A historian researching the effects of Christian missionaries' activities on local social structures in late nineteenth century Africa would probably find which of the following sources most useful?
• The United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect a shared concern for
• Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was
• The African proverb, "Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter," conveys which of the following?
• Which of the following was a major difference between the social structures of China and India between 600 B.C.E. and 600 C.E.?
• The expansion of communication and trade networks in Afro-Eurasia from 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E. resulted in the spread of which of the following from South Asia?
• In contrast to initial industrialization, the second Industrial Revolution in the last half of the nineteenth century was particularly associated with the mass production of which of the following?
• Which of the following statements is true about both the Mughal and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth century?
• Historians argue that the twentieth century marks a significant break in world history for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
• The founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is best understood in the context of which of the following?
• The North and South American independence movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries shared which of the following?
• Which of the following would be the most useful source of evidence for research about the profits of Portuguese and British slave traders in the period 1600-1800?
• Which of the following factors represents the most significant cause of the growth of cities in Afro-Eurasian in the period 1000-1450?
• Before 600 C.E., large centralized empires, such as the Han, Persian, and Roman empires, extended their military power by
• The development of Indian Ocean trade routes in the period 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. and the development of transatlantic trade routes in the period 1450 C.E to 1600 C.E. were similar in that they both depended on
• Which of the following best explains why myths are useful to historians?
• Which of the following statements is true about the world at the end of the twentieth century?
• Nationalist leaders in Africa and Asia, such as Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), Jomo Kenyatta (1894-1978), and Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), had which of the following in common?
• After the Second World War, countries around the world did which of the following to restore the global economy?
• Which of the following best describes how nineteenth-century European industrialization affected European women's lives?
• Which of the following was a widespread social consequence of industrialization in the 1800s?
• An important reason for China's rapid population increase in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was

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