AP World History MCQ Practice — Unit 1: The Global Tapestry (1200–1450) (Part B)¶
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- 题目数量：40 道选择题（Multiple Choice Questions）
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- 覆盖范围：Unit 1: The Global Tapestry (1200–1450)
- 本部分：Part B（40 题）
“O King! The city of Madurai was famed for its sweet beauty, but has now become the city of wild animals since the Muslims conquered it [in 1335]. Its famed Hindu temple has been reduced to rubble. The mighty Kaveri River used to flow in its proper channels because our noble Hindu rulers of the past had curbed it with dams. But now, the river flows without discipline like her new Muslim lords because the dams have been damaged beyond repair.
My Lord, it is hard to say whether we get more troubled by hearing the owls that now live in our abandoned gardens, or get more perturbed by the Persian language uttered by the pet-parrots from the houses of the Muslims. There is no agriculture left, as the angry Lord Indra* has stopped sending rains. My King! The Vedas have disappeared. With dharma gone, character and nobleness have disappeared.
My king, this sword that you hold is now placed into your lotus-hands by divine providence. Take it and without further delay uproot from my lands this Muslim kingdom. Go forth my dear Lord, win your victory, and establish One Hundred Victory Pillars!”
*the Hindu god of the heavens who brings thunder and rain
Speech of a female petitioner from the South Indian city of Madurai made at the court of the king of Vijayanagara, a Hindu empire in South India. The speech is recorded in a fourteenth-century poem written by a princess of Vijayanagara describing Vijayanagara’s conquest of the Muslim sultanate of Madurai in 1378.
P22-Q5. Which of the following best describes a claim made in the first paragraph?
(A) Hindu rulers had constructed irrigation works to control the Kaveri River. (B) Wild animals destroyed Madurai’s Hindu temple. (C) The Kaveri River flooded and destroyed the city of Madurai. (D) The city of Madurai’s Hindu temple was renowned for its beauty.
Answer: (A)
P22-Q6. A historian would most likely cite which of the following claims made in the second paragraph to demonstrate that Hindu teachings influenced the development of South Asian societies?
(A) There is no agriculture left because Indra now supports the Muslims. (B) The absence of dharma has caused nobleness and character to disappear. (C) The Hindu citizens of Madurai are perturbed by hearing parrots speaking Persian. (D) The Hindu citizens of Madurai protect the owls in their gardens because they are considered to be sacred birds.
Answer: (B)
P22-Q7. Which of the following is a claim made by the petitioner in the third paragraph?
(A) The gods will directly accompany the king in his conquest of the Madurai Sultanate. (B) The king has the support of the gods in his efforts to drive Muslims out of Madurai. (C) A prophecy has shown that the king will conquer the Madurai Sultanate. (D) The king should establish victory pillars after his conquest.
Answer: (B)
P23-Q8. Which of the following was the main reason that Buddhist thought had important social implications for South Asia?
(A) It encouraged larger family size. (B) Its followers were incorporated into the Brahman caste. (C) It challenged hierarchies based on caste. (D) It reinforced the idea of obedience to the emperor as a means to salvation.
Answer: (C)
P23-Q9. The ninth-century monument pictured above, located on the island of Java in present-day Indonesia, best exemplifies which of the following historical processes?
(A) The conflict between secular and religious principles of government (B) The spread of universalizing religions beyond their places of origin (C) The rejection of universal religions by rulers wishing to protect local religious practices (D) The growth of popular religion
Answer: (B)
“One of the things that struck me most in Peru was its great, splendid highways, and I wondered how many men it must have required to build them and what tools and instruments were used to level the mountains and cut through the rock to make them as broad and good as they are. It seems to me that if the king of Spain wanted to build a highway from Quito to Cuzco, I do not think that he could do it even with all of his power unless he followed the method that the Inca employed. When an Inca king decided to build one of these highways, all he needed to do was give the command. Then, the inspectors would go through the provinces, laying out the highway’s route and assigning Indians to help build the road. In this way, the road was built in a short time from one boundary of the kingdom to the other. The Inca rulers built many of these roads and were so full of pride that when one ruler died, his heir would build his road larger and broader if he intended to set out on a conquest.” Pedro Cieza de León, Spanish soldier and historian, Chronicles of Peru, 1553
P24-Q1. Which of the following pieces of evidence most strongly supports the author’s arguments about the quality of the highways described in the passage?
(A) They were built by men with tools. (B) They were very broad, and some extended across the entire kingdom. (C) There were many roads throughout the kingdom. (D) Their construction was supervised by government officials.
Answer: (B)
P24-Q2. Which of the following pieces of evidence does the author most directly use to support his argument about the king of Spain following the Inca method of highway construction?
(A) The Inca rulers constructed roads to help complete conquests. (B) The Inca rulers only had to command their officials to construct a highway, and it was completed quickly. (C) The Inca rulers clearly marked their kingdom with boundaries. (D) The Inca rulers could acquire specialized tools to cut through mountains.
Answer: (B)
P24-Q3. Which of the following pieces of evidence does the author use to support his argument about the pride of Inca rulers in the second paragraph?
(A) Inca rulers followed the method of dynastic succession for passing political authority from one ruler to another. (B) Inca rulers performed religious ceremonies to bless the highways and those who traveled on them. (C) Inca rulers had officials assign men from the provinces to construct the highways. (D) Inca rulers typically tried to construct bigger and broader highways than their predecessors if they wanted to undertake conquests.
Answer: (D)
P24-Q4. Which of the following staple crops is most associated with the rise of Mesoamerican civilizations?
(A) Manioc (B) Potatoes (C) Beans (D) Maize (E) Rice
Answer: (D)
“Wila Uma, the Inca general, addressed the Spanish [conquistadors] with the following words: ‘What are you doing to our ruler? This is how you repay his good will? Did he not command all of his people to give you tribute? Did he not give you a house filled with gold and silver? Did he not give you his servants to serve you? What more can he give you now that you have imprisoned him? All the people of this land are so distressed by your actions, because they have lost all they possess, and their distress leaves them no choice but to hang themselves or risk everything by rebelling. Thus, I believe it would be best for you to release him from this prison to lessen the grief of these people.’ . . . Manco Inca, a previous Inca ruler and father of Titu Cusi, whom the Spanish had imprisoned after conquering the Inca capital of Cuzco in 1533 Titu Cusi, ruler of a regional Inca state established after the Spanish had conquered the Inca Empire, letter to the Spanish king detailing the abuses of the Spanish during the conquest, 1570
P25-Q5. The sentiments expressed by Wila Uma in the passage most clearly illustrate which of the following aspects of the Inca state?
(A) The persistence of cultural diversity within the empire (B) The influence of technological innovation in expanding the empire (C) The importance of the Inca ruler to the empire (D) The extensive territorial extent of the empire
Answer: (C)
P26-Q1. By 1200 C.E. Improved agricultural technology had spread throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa primarily through the
(A) development of oxen immune to diseases carried by the tsetse fly (B) discovery of gold that provided a means of exchange among groups (C) expansion of the Sahara Desert, which forced Berber peoples to move south (D) migration of Bantu-speaking peoples with their knowledge of ironworking
Answer: (D)
“Scholars have been mesmerized by the huge extent of the present distribution of Bantu languages and could think of only a single process, an equally huge human migration, ‘the Bantu expansion,’ to explain it.... [This] scenario is fatally flawed, however, for two reasons. First it fell prey to the illusion that only a migration could fit the evidence.... [But] a language can spread without involving the migration of any communities. The second fatal error was to collapse a history which encompassed the developments of one to several millennia into a single migration event. The evidence shows that many different dispersals of single languages succeeded each other at different times, not continuously.” Jan Vansina, historian, “New Linguistic Evidence and ‘the Bantu Expansion,’” scholarly article, 1995
P26-Q2. All of the following statements are factually accurate. Which would best support the author’s argument in the passage?
(A) DNA evidence suggests human populations in western, central, and southern Africa share many similar genes. (B) Linguistic evidence shows that several small groups in central and southern Africa continue to speak non-Bantu languages. (C) Archaeological evidence suggests that iron metallurgy spread across sub-Saharan Africa in several distinct waves, separated by hundreds of years. (D) Ethnographic 人种学evidence shows that many West African societies share common themes in their cultural and religious traditions.
Answer: (C)
P26-Q3. In addition to languages, the peoples discussed in the passage are credited with the diffusion of which of the following in sub-Saharan Africa?
(A) Monumental architecture (B) New agricultural techniques (C) Nomadism (D) Writing systems
Answer: (B)
“The East African coast was certainly known to the people of Arabia by the eighth century B.C.E. In fact, the ancient Southern Arabian state of Ausan traded extensively there and may have actually held a portion of the coast. Traders who reached the coast discovered a number of potentially valuable raw materials there. Among these were spices, tortoise shell, coconut oil, ivory, and later, gold and slaves. It was not until almost 1000 C.E., however, that the first important commercial city-states emerged along the coast. These city-states fluctuated in wealth and prestige as they competed for coastal hegemony. Because of their way of life, they tended to have a broad regional perspective. Their destinies and fortunes were at least partly determined in distant lands by foreign merchants and rulers. Information on early political aspects of East African states remains very limited. We know that they had kings or sultans, who wielded a good deal of power. Sultans were advised by councils of princes, elders, and members of the ruling household. It seems probable that the sultan and his close relatives controlled the religious and military offices of the state.” Terry H. Elkiss, historian, “Kilwa Kisiwani: The Rise of an East African City-State,” article published in African Studies Review, a scholarly journal, 1973.
P29-Q4. The example of an ancient Arabian state that traded extensively and controlled territories on the East African coast can best be used as evidence of
(A) the contributions of East Africa to the development of Eurasian religions (B) the long-term continuities in state building in coastal East Africa (C) the importance of the East African coast in the development of African national identities (D) the technological and logistical challenges faced by Eurasian merchants trying to reach the East African coast
Answer: (B)
P27-Q5. The interregional connections of states such as those on the East African coast can best be used as an illustration of the continued importance of which of the following?
(A) International diplomacy (B) Polytheistic religions (C) Long-distance trade (D) Patriarchal gender norms
Answer: (C)
P27-Q6. The coexistence of rulers and councils of elders in African states in the period circa 1200–1450 best demonstrates
(A) an attempt to imitate the feudal governments of European states and East Asian empires (B) the influence of indigenous African political practices (C) an adaptation to the climatic conditions of the East African coast (D) a reflection of the hardships and uncertainties faced by Muslim seaborne traders
Answer: (B)
“At that time, there happened great disturbances among the lower ranks of people, by which England was nearly ruined. Never was a country in such jeopardy, and all because some commoners sought to claim liberties to which they were not entitled. It is customary in England, as in other countries, for the nobility to have great privileges over the commoners, who are bound by law and custom to plow the lands of nobles, to harvest the grain, to carry it home to the barn, and to perform various other services for their lords. The evil-disposed in these districts began to rise, saying they were too severely oppressed; that at the beginning of the world there were no unfree people, and that no one ought to be treated as such, unless he had committed treason against his lord, as Lucifer had done against God: but they had done no such thing, for they were men formed after the same likeness as their lords, who treated them like beasts. They could no longer bear this, but had determined to be free. And if they were to do any work for their lords, they demanded to be paid for it.” Jean Froissart, French chronicler, late 1300s
P28-Q1. All of the following statements are factually accurate. Which most likely explains Froissart’s view of the peasants’ grievances discussed in the passage?首先要知道作者观点对农民是怎样的？从用词和语气语调推测
(A) Even though he was French, Froissart traveled to England to collect information for his chronicles. (B) Peasant revolts were fairly common in medieval Europe. (C) History writing in medieval Europe was aimed primarily at elite audiences. (D) In addition to his chronicles, Froissart wrote a work of romance based on the legend of King Arthur.
Answer: (C)
P28-Q2. English nobles resisted peasant demands such as those described in the passage because agricultural labor in many parts of fourteenth-century Afro-Eurasia had become scarce as a result of which of the following developments?
(A) The migration of peasants to cities in search of industrial employment (B) Significant increase in mortality due to the spread of epidemic diseases (C) The development of wage-based economies with the emergence of capitalism (D) Widespread famine resulting from rising global temperatures
Answer: (B)
P28-Q3. The events described in the passage represent a reaction against which of the following forms of coerced labor?
(A) Slavery (B) Military conscription (C) Indentured servitude (D) Serfdom
Answer: (D)
“The evil-disposed in these districts [of England] began to rise, saying, they were too severely oppressed; that at the beginning of the world there were no slaves, and that no one ought to be treated as such. . . . This they would not longer bear, but had determined to be free, and if they labored for their lords, they wanted to be paid for it. A crazy priest in the county of Kent, called John Ball, who for his absurd preaching, had been thrice confined in prison, inflamed those ideas. He would say: ‘Are we not all descended from the same parents, Adam and Eve? and what can the lords show, or what reasons give, why they should be more the masters than ourselves?’ ” Jean Froissart, account of a peasant revolt in England, 1381
P29-Q4. The point of view of the author can best be described as
(A) sympathetic to the peasants (B) hostile to the peasants (C) indifferent to the peasants’ grievances (D) sympathetic to the leaders of the revolt
Answer: (B)
P29-Q5. The description of the peasant revolt best supports which of the following conclusions?
(A) Peasants were hostile to the idea of wage labor. (B) Peasants used religious beliefs to justify their resistance. (C) Peasant demands for equality were supported by the highest levels of religious leaders. (D) Peasant revolts were more frequent in England than elsewhere in this period.
Answer: (B)
TWO SCENES FROM SOWING AND REAPING, A YUAN-DYNASTY (CIRCA 1350) COPY OF A SONG- DYNASTY (CIRCA 1150) ILLUSTRATED SCROLL ABOUT THE PRACTICE OF RICE CULTIVATION IN CHINA. Image 1: Purchase, W. M. Keck Foundation Gift and other gifts, in memory of Douglas Dillon, 2005 Workers irrigating a rice field by powering a mechanical water wheel with their feet Image 2: Purchase, W. M. Keck Foundation Gift and other gifts, in memory of Douglas Dillon, 2005 Men, women, and children harvesting rice
P31-Q6. Which of the following best describes how European labor systems before 1450 differed from the Chinese labor system depicted in the two images?
(A) European labor systems did not rely as much on women and children. (B) European labor systems placed a greater emphasis on plantation cash crops. (C) European labor systems were dominated by urban artisans. (D) European labor systems were more likely to utilize serfdom.
Answer: (D)
P31-Q7. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of the political systems in western Europe and China during the time period 1000—1300?
(A) Western Europe developed multiple monarchies, while China maintained a single empire. (B) Developments in the legal systems of China emphasized individual political rights, while western Europe concentrated on maritime law. (C) Both societies began an aggressive policy of imperialism and territorial expansion. (D) Both societies gradually adopted a representative democratic system. (E) Both regions experienced Mongol imperial rule.
Answer: (A)
P32-Q8. Which of the following was an important continuity in the social structure of states and empires in the period 600 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.?
(A) Peasants were generally free of obligations to the state. (B) Wealthy merchants dominated political institutions. (C) Landholding aristocracies tended to be the dominant class. (D) Urban craft workers played a substantial role in government.
Answer: (C)
MARIA, COUNTESS OF BÉARN, ACCOMPANIED BY SEVEN OF HER MALE COURTIERS, SWEARS HOMAGE TO HER OVERLORD, KING ALFONSO II OF ARAGON, ILLUSTRATION IN A MANUSCRIPT PRODUCED FOR THE ROYAL COURT OF ARAGON CIRCA 1175 C.E. Archivo de la Corona de Aragon, Barcelona, Spain Mithra-Index/Bridgeman Images. The lordship of Béarn was located in present-day southwestern France.
P36-Q9. The act of the countess of Béarn in the image is most closely identified with which of the following political systems?
(A) Manorialism (B) Serfdom (C) Monasticism (D) Feudalism
Answer: (D)
P36-Q10. The image most directly illustrates which of the following features of the political development of medieval Europe?
(A) Its bureaucratization, as European rulers developed sophisticated systems of record keeping to strengthen their authority. (B) Its decentralization, as European rulers frequently delegated authority to local subordinates. (C) Its reliance on Roman traditions, as European rulers used ancient customs to demonstrate their legitimacy. (D) Its ethnic and cultural diversity, as European rulers granted ethnic and religious groups the right to use their own laws and traditions.
Answer: (B)
P36-Q11. In Europe, political relationships of the type depicted in the image emerged most directly on account of which of the following developments?
(A) Local elites’ need for military protection from more powerful lords (B) Local elites’ desire to expand the commercial power of local towns (C) Local elites’ need for military assistance to eliminate religious heresies (D) Local elites’ desire to attract new settlers to their territories
Answer: (A)
“To the most holy father, the Pope: Most of our kingdom of Hungary was reduced to a desert by the scourge of the Mongols’ invasion. Now, we receive news every day that the Mongols have again unified their forces and will soon send their countless troops against all of Europe. We are afraid that we will be unable to withstand the Mongols’ ferocity in battle unless the Pope is able to persuade other Christian rulers to send us aid to fortify our kingdom. When the Mongols invaded in 1241, we sent requests for military aid to the papacy, the Holy Roman Emperor, the king of France, and others. But from all of them we received only words of support. We, for shame, resorted to inviting pagan Cumans into our kingdom. If, God forbid, our kingdom fell to the Mongols, the door would be open for them to invade the other regions of the Catholic faith from the Hungarian steppes. So, the people in our kingdom cannot cease to be amazed that you offer substantial help to the Christian territories overseas, which if they were lost would not harm the inhabitants of Europe more than if our kingdom fell.” a people who dwelled along the steppes of the Black Sea and in Central Asia King Béla IV of Hungary, letter to Pope Innocent IV, circa 1250
P37-Q12. Which of the following features of Europe in the period circa 1200–1450 most directly contributed to the fact that the king of Hungary did not receive the military assistance that he requested in 1241, as mentioned in the third paragraph?
(A) The existence of numerous feudal states that were frequently in conflict with one another (B) The development of parliaments that could check royal authority (C) The growing political power of regional trade organizations such as the Hanseatic League (D) The religious divisions of Europe into Protestants and Catholics as a result of the Reformation
Answer: (A)
P37-Q13. In the period between 1000 to 1450, which of the following were two occupations pursued by large numbers of African and European women?
(A) Midwife and healer (B) Military leader and farmer (C) Scribe and tax collector (D) Long-distance trader and merchant (E) Metalworker and textile manufacturer
Answer: (A)
P37-Q14. Which of the following pairs of belief systems offered opportunities for women to lead monastic lives?
(A) Buddhism and Christianity (B) Buddhism and Judaism (C) Confucianism and Hinduism (D) Confucianism and Islam (E) Hinduism and Islam
Answer: (A)
P38-Q15. Renaissance Italy and the Islamic Middle East after the decline of the ‘Abbasid Empire in the mid-tenth century are important examples of which of the following?
(A) Political unity and cultural creativity (B) Political fragmentation and cultural creativity (C) Political unity and the decline of religion (D) Political fragmentation and the decline of religion (E) Political unity and the rise of secularism
Answer: (B)
P38-Q16. Which of the great religious systems below were characterized by monotheism combined with a sacred text and a strong missionary thrust?
(A) Buddhism and Confucianism (B) Buddhism and Hinduism (C) Christianity and Judaism (D) Christianity and Islam (E) Islam and Judaism
Answer: (D)
“[D]espite his ferocity, his military genius and his shrewd adaptation of tribal politics to his imperial purpose, Tamerlane’s* system fell apart at his death. As he himself may have grasped intuitively, it was no longer possible to. . . build a Eurasian empire on [nomadic] foundations. . . . The Ottomans, the Mamluk state in Egypt and Syria, the Muslim sultanate in northern India, and above all China were too resilient to be swept away by his lightning campaigns.
Indeed Tamerlane’s death marked in several ways the end of a long phase in global history. His empire was the last real attempt to challenge the partition of Eurasia between the states of the Far West, Islamic Middle Eurasia and Confucian East Asia. Secondly, his political experiments and ultimate failure revealed that power had begun to shift back decisively from the nomad empires to the settled states. . . . Lastly, his passing coincided with the first signs of a change in the existing pattern of long-distance trade, the [overland Silk Road route] that he had fought to control. Within a few decades after his death, the idea of a world empire ruled from Samarkand [Tamerlane’s Central Asian capital] had become [a fantasy].” *a Turko-Mongolic ruler who conquered much of Central Asia and the Middle East in the late 1300s and early 1400s. John Darwin, British historian, After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000, published in 2008
P39-Q1. All of the following statements about nomadic empires in the period 1200–1700 are factually accurate. Which statement most likely explains why Tamerlane’s empire rapidly declined in the late fifteenth century?
(A) Nomadic empires contained numerous ethnic and religious groups within their territories. (B) Nomadic empires frequently sought to control key trade routes in order to secure access to luxury goods. (C) Nomadic empires often used the governmental systems of sedentary societies to rule agricultural regions. (D) Nomadic empires typically contained numerous tribes and confederations that were difficult to control.
Answer: (D)
P39-Q2. Inca and Aztec societies were similar in that both
(A) developed from Mayan civilization (B) acquired empires by means of military conquest (C) independently developed iron technology (D) depended entirely on oral record keeping (E) had no system of regional trade
Answer: (B)
LIU GUANDAO, YUAN DYNASTY CHINESE COURT PAINTER, WHILING AWAY THE SUMMER, PAINTED SCROLL, CIRCA 1280 The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo The image depicts a Chinese Confucian scholar and two female attendants.
P40-Q3. The image can best be used as a source of information about the
(A) social prestige of established educated elites in Chinese society under Mongol rule (B) influence of Christian missionaries in Mongol-controlled China (C) high status of wealthy merchants in traditional Chinese society (D) increased importance of Mongol Buddhism and shamanism on Chinese society under Yuan rule
Answer: (A)
P40-Q4. The term “samurai” describes men in feudal Japan who were most like the men in feudal Europe known as
(A) lords of the manor (B) Catholic bishops (C) serfs (D) knights (E) merchants
Answer: (D)
P40-Q5. The spread of Bantu-speaking peoples over southern Africa before 1400 C.E. can be best explained by their
(A) conversion to Islam (B) use of cavalry (C) centralized political systems (D) knowledge of agriculture
Answer: (D)
P41-Q6. The responsibilities of aristocratic women in both feudal Japan and medieval Europe usually included
(A) directing religious festivals (B) managing household supplies and finances (C) representing their families in courts of law (D) training their sons to be warriors (E) overseeing village schools and hospitals
Answer: (B)