AP World History: Chapter 3

Which of the following luxury goods came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange System?

a. Silk

How did Buddhism change as it spread along the Silk Roads?

d. The gods of many peoples along the Silk Roads were incorporated as bodhisattvas

Trade along the Silk Roads was facilitated by

b. Large and powerful states that provided security for merchants and travelers

How did the Silk Road trade affect peasants in China?

a. Peasants focused more on producing luxury goods

The spread of the Black Death from China to Europe in the fourteenth century occurred during an era of increased contact facilitated by

d. Mongol rule

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Eurasia experienced a period of intensified interaction under the rule of the

c. Mongols

Which of the following highlights an effect of the international trade in silk?

b. The association of silk with the sacred in Buddhism and Christianity

How did the changed environment in China in the ninth century affect Buddhism?

b. Buddhist monasteries came under state control as a xenophobic reaction set in

Which of the following describes Korea's relationship with China?

c. Korea's capital city of Kumsong was modeled directly on the Chinese capital of Chang'an

In their relations with China, the countries of Korea and Japan both

d. Sent people to China to study Chinese though and cultures

In contrast to the Silk Roads, the Sea Roads of the Indian Ocean

a. Carried more products for a mass market

Swahili civilization was influence by which of the following cultures?

c. Bantu

Which of the following technological innovations facilitated Indian Ocean commerce?

c. Junks

Which of the following is an example of the Indianization of Southeast Asia?

a. The architectural expression of Hinduism at Angkor Wat

The political structure of Swahili civilization was similar to the

d. Competitive and independent city-states of ancient Greece

Trade in which of the following helped the Malay kingdom of Srivijaya fund an embryonic bureaucracy?

a. Spices

Ships sailing along the trade routes in the Indian Ocean trade network, were reliant on what natural phenomenon?

c. Monsoons

What made the long trek across the Sahara possible?

b. Camels

The Sand Roads linked North Africa and the Mediterranean world to the land and peoples of

a. Interior West Africa

The Sahara held rich deposits of which highly valued commodity?

a. Salt

Why did the maritime expeditions of the Indian Ocean basin sponsored by the Ming emperor suddenly stop in 1433?

c. The emperor's successors viewed expansion as a waste of resources

In which region was conversion to Islam motivated by a desire to expand trading networks rather than from the result of conquest and Islamic rule?

c. West Africa

Which of the following describes the effect of Islam on West Africa?

b. Islam had the greatest influence on rulers and urban elites

Which of the following was a result of the cross-regional ties created in the expanding Islamic world?

b. The exchange of agricultural products and practices from one region to another

Which of the following was an Arab innovation?

d. Algebra

The absence of which of the following made long-distance trade in the Americas difficult?

a. Wheeled vehicles

In which civilization did the state largely control trade, preventing a professional merchant class from emerging?

b. Inca

Which of the following states had the greatest control over economic exchange within its borders?

d. The Inca Empire

Why did the Chinese elite demand luxurious fabrics?

b. They wanted them as a mark of high status