Download APWH MITERM TEST 1. All Mesoamerican societies used calendars

APWH MITERM TEST
1. All Mesoamerican societies used calendars derived ultimately from the
a. Maya.
b. Mochica.
c. Olmecs.
d. Aztecs.
e. Incas.
2. The first ceremonial center of the Maya was
a. Tikal.
b. San Lorenzo.
c. Mochica.
d. Kaminaljuyú.
e. Tres Zapotes.
3. The most important political center of the Maya realm at its height was
a. Kaminaljuyú.
b. Teotihuacan.
c. Tikal.
d. Chavín.
e. San Lorenzo.
4. Which of the following devices did the ancient Maya build in order to trap silt carried by the
numerous rivers passing through the Mesoamerican lowlands?
a. dams
b. massive irrigation projects
c. terraces
d. primitive water purification filters
e. moats
5. In the ninth century C.E., a loose Maya empire was constructed by the state of
a. Tikal.
b. Kaminaljuyú.
c. Chavín.
d. Teotihuacan.
e. Chichén Itzá.
6. The magnificent capital of the Persian empire constructed by Darius was
a. Byzantium.
b. Pasargadae.
c. Marathon.
d. Susa.
e. Persepolis.
7. Satrapies were
a. Mesopotamian kings.
b. Egyptian administrators.
c. Persian administrative units.
d. demons of the Lydian underworld.
e. Arabian merchants.
8. The Persian “eyes and ears of the king”
a. was Ahura Mazda.
b. were satraps.
c. was a popular expression that related to the divinity of the king.
d. were spies.
e. were the cavalry.
9. Darius picked up the idea of a standardized government-issued coinage from the
a. Babylonians.
b. Egyptians.
c. Lydians.
d. Indians.
e. Chinese.
10. Which of the following empires normally displayed the greatest degree of toleration toward
its subject peoples?
a. Assyrian
b. Greek
c. Egyptian
d. Achaemenid
e. Olmec
11. What was the Chinese political philosophy that called for clear and strict laws?
a. Confucianism
b. Legalism
c. Daoism
d. Buddhism
e. Hinduism
12. Shang Yang and Han Feizi hoped to control China’s subjects
a. through religious devotion.
b. with clear and strict laws.
c. by adhering to certain classic Confucian concepts such as ren and li.
d. with a well-meaning government designed to bring out the inherent goodness of human
beings.
e. by building peasant support through democratic reforms.
13. In an effort to bring about effective governmental control, the Legalists
a. relied on the example set by hard-working junzi.
b. stressed that the peasants should follow the Daoist doctrine of inaction.
c. established the principle of collective responsibility before the law.
d. stressed the need for education.
e. suggested that each individual Hindu focus on his or her caste duties.
14. The Book of Lord Shang is one of the most influential works of
a. Legalism.
b. Confucianism.
c. Daoism.
d. Buddhism.
e. Zoroastrianism.
15. The first ruler to unite all of China was
a. Liu Bang.
b. Prince Wu.
c. Qin Shihuangdi.
d. Wang Mang.
e. Prince Yu.
16. Although only fragments remain, some of our best information about early Indian history
comes from the Indika, written by
a. Socrates.
b. Megasthenes.
c. Herodotus.
d. Sima Qian.
e. Kautalya.
17. Megasthenes was
a. the author of the Indika.
b. the Macedonian general who invaded India in 327 B.C.E.
c. the Indian spiritual leader who founded Jainism.
d. the founder of the Mauryan dynasty.
e. the name for a special class of Jain priests.
18. During the time of the Aryans, the Indian political landscape was characterized by
a. a series of small kingdoms.
b. efficient centralized government.
c. constant bloody civil war.
d. two equally matched rival states.
e. a turbulent but profitable union with China.
19. The Indian political scene changed dramatically in 520 B.C.E. when new administrative
techniques were introduced after the invasion of the
a. Aryans.
b. Greeks.
c. Chinese.
d. Austronesians.
e. Persians.
20.
In 327 B.C.E., India was thrown into political chaos by the invasion of
a. the Persian king Cyrus.
b. the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III.
c. Chandragupta Maurya.
d. Alexander of Macedon.
e. Qin Shihuangdi.
21. Who said, “The unexamined life is not worth living”?
a. Socrates
b. Aristotle
c. Pericles
d. Plato
e. Hippocrates
22. The concept of Forms or Ideas is associated with
a. Socrates.
b. Plato.
c. Xeno.
d. Aristotle.
e. Marcus Aurelius.
23. In Republic, Plato proposed that the true rulers of society should be
a. the descendents of Socrates.
b. the electorate, through a democratic framework.
c. the Spartans, because of their emphasis on character and control.
d. the Athenians, because of their wealth and fame.
e. philosopher kings.
24. Which Greek god was the grandson of the earth and sky gods?
a. Apollo
b. Zeus
c. Hera
d. Demeter
e. Dionysus
25. Aristotle
a. gave unconditional support for the Platonic world of Forms.
b. called for a renunciation of the world because its distractions blinded the thinker.
c. believed that philosophers could rely on their senses.
d. exclusively studied human nature.
e. was Socrates’ best student.
26. The turning point in Roman history was their struggle, in the Punic Wars, with the
a. Phoenicians.
b. Carthaginians.
c. Persians.
d. Greeks.
e. Sasanids.
27. Of the following groups, which did not engage in conflict with the Romans during Roman
expansion into the Mediterranean?
a. the Carthaginians
b. the Antigonids
c. the Seleucids
d. the Spartans
e. None of these answers is correct.
28. Latifundia were
a. enormous plantations worked by slaves.
b. the emperor’s elite guard.
c. the priestly class devoted to the worship of Mithras.
d. the wealthy classes of ancient Rome.
e. short lyric poems focused on erotic love.
29. The tribune whose call for land reform led to his assassination in 132 B.C.E. was
a. Julius Caesar.
b. Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
c. Tiberius Gracchus.
d. Gaius Marius.
e. Cincinnatus.
30. Gaius Marius
a. created an army of common men who were loyal only to him.
b. had the support of the patrician class.
c. posted a list of enemies who were to be killed on sight.
d. was the chief Roman proponent of Stoicism.
e. was the greatest writer in Rome before the time of Virgil.
31. In 180 C.E. smallpox claimed the life of the Roman emperor
a. Augustus Caesar.
b. Constantine.
c. Romulus Augustulus.
d. Marcus Aurelius.
e. Tiberius.
32. By around the year 600 C.E., the ravages of epidemic disease had caused both the
Mediterranean and Chinese populations to fall by
a. at most five percent.
b. around a tenth.
c. at least a quarter.
d. over half.
e. over four-fifths.
33. Which of the following recorded the suffering of Christians caused by epidemic diseases in
his On Mortality?
a. Aristotle
b. St. Augustine
c. Constantine
d. Mani
e. St. Cyprian
34. In the year 184 C.E., peasant discontent in China led to an uprising known as the
a. Wang Mang revolt.
b. Yellow Turban rebellion.
c. White Lotus rebellion.
d. period of the six dynasties.
e. Taiping rebellion.
35. With the collapse of political order after the fall of the Han empire,
a. Confucianism became much more popular.
b. Christianity became one of the most important religions in China.
c. Daoism and Buddhism became much more popular.
d. Hindu thought began to have a profoundly important influence in China.
e. religions of every variety were persecuted and suppressed.
36. The word ulama refers to
a. “the house of Islam.”
b. “holy war.”
c. “people with religious knowledge.”
d. “the community of Allah.”
e. “the one god.”
37. During the last two hundred years of the Abbasid empire, it fell under the control of the
a. Byzantine empire.
b. Ottoman Turkish empire.
c. Sasanids.
d. Saljuq Turks.
e. Holy Roman Empire.
38. The Abbasid dynasty finally came to an end in 1258, when it was overrun by the
a. Mongols.
b. Ottoman Turks.
c. Saljuq Turks.
d. Byzantines.
e. French.
39. What new industry, transmitted to the Islamic world from China, was introduced during the
Abbasid period?
a. steel production
b. paper manufacture
c. bronze production
d. textile production
e. iron production
40. Caravanserais were
a. Islamic thinkers who stressed a more emotional connection to Allah.
b. Islamic officials.
c. inns offering food and lodging for traveling merchants.
d. heretical Muslims who practiced polytheism.
e. Arabic warriors.
41. Dunhuang in western China
a. was the capital of the Tang dynasty.
b. contained an early Buddhist community.
c. served as the capital of the early Song dynasty.
d. was the first area that fell to the advancing Mongols.
e. was the Christian center of China.
42. In an effort to win support in China by tying into Chinese traditions, Buddhist missionaries
translated the Indian term dharma as
a. wuwei.
b. sui.
c. dao.
d. nalanda.
e. tang.
43. One of the more popular schools of Buddhism in China was
a. Xuanzang Buddhism.
b. Tang Buddhism.
c. Hinayana Buddhism.
d. Theravada Buddhism.
e. Chan Buddhism.
44. Japanese Zen Buddhism is known in China as
a. Chan Buddhism.
b. Pure Land Buddhism.
c. Kusha Buddhism.
d. Mani Buddhism.
e. a combination of Christian and Buddhist philosophies.
45. In the 840s, Tang emperors
a. made Buddhism the favored religion of the central court.
b. officially favored the Manichaeans instead of the Buddhists.
c. converted to Buddhism but didn’t force the spread of the religion.
d. ordered the closure of monasteries and the expulsion of Buddhists.
e. converted to Islam.
46. In 711, the northern Indian area of Sind fell to the
a. Abbasid dynasty.
b. Umayyad dynasty.
c. Tang dynasty.
d. Byzantine empire.
e. Chola dynasty.
47. Islam reached India by all of the following routes EXCEPT
a. conquest by Arabic invaders.
b. missionaries sent by the emperor Harsha.
c. Islamic merchants.
d. migrations from Turkish-speaking peoples from central Asia.
e. conquest by Arabic invaders and missionaries sent by Harsha.
48. The Islamic ruler who led seventeen different raiding expeditions into India in the eleventh
century was
a. Harihara.
b. Srivijaya.
c. Ramanuja.
d. Abu Bakr.
e. Mahmud of Ghazni.
49. Mahmud of Ghazni’s main inspiration for visiting India in the eleventh century was to
a. spread Islam.
b. visit important Buddhist temples.
c. build a centralized state based on a Persian model.
d. plunder.
e. forge a lasting trading alliance with China.
50. Northern India was dominated from the twelfth through the early sixteenth century by the
a. Abbasid dynasty.
b. Chola kingdom.
c. Southern Song dynasty.
d. Delhi sultanate.
e. Umayyad dynasty.
51. In 802, what gift did Charlemagne receive from the Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid?
a. a thousand pounds of gold
b. a golden chandelier
c. a terra-cotta army
d. an elephant named Abu al-Abbas
e. a chess set displaying the two leaders as the kings
52. Byzantium’s major advantage was its
a. position as the greatest trading center of the Greek world.
b. huge army.
c. strategic position on the Bosporus.
d. magnificent library, which contained the cultural treasures of the Hellenistic world.
e. status as the most populous city in the Mediterranean basin.
53. Which of the following statements about Constantinople is NOT true?
a. It was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished eastern half of the Roman empire.
b. It was constructed by Constantine.
c. It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on the Sasanid empire in Persia.
d. It was built because the eastern half was the wealthier and more productive part of the
empire.
e. It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on Germanic tribes on the Danube.
54. The most important political feature of the Byzantine state was
a. its docile acceptance of Rome’s superiority.
b. its republican governmental structure that resembled early Rome.
c. its tightly centralized rule under a powerful emperor.
d. its division of power under the tetrarchs.
e. its reliance on Achaemenid ruling principles.
55. The mixture of secular and religious authority that marked Constantine’s reign as well as that
of the Byzantine emperors is known as
a. Byzantine.
b. caesaropapism.
c. Corpus iuris civilis.
d. secularism.
e. divine right rule.
56. Karakorum was
a. the central Asian capital of the Mongols.
b. the founder of the Mongol empire.
c. the term applied to the Mongol policy of religious toleration.
d. the last powerful Mongol ruler.
e. the leading god in the Mongol divine hierarchy.
57. The largest empire of all time was created by the
a. Romans.
b. Chinese.
c. Mongols.
d. Incas.
e. Indians.
58. The invasions of the nomadic Turkish and Mongol tribes between the eleventh and fifteenth
centuries
a. left nothing but devastation in their wake.
b. facilitated greater cross-cultural communication and integration.
c. led to the rise of a centralized imperial state that ran from China to Persia.
d. was brought to an end by increasingly powerful European states.
e. was inspired by their devotion to Islam.
59. The Turkish peoples
a. were a single, homogeneous group.
b. established a tightly structured centralized government.
c. abandoned their urban existence because of disease and economic pressures.
d. spread Islam to southwest Asia.
e. never formed a single, homogeneous group.
60. The environment of central Asia
a. guaranteed a bountiful harvest.
b. does not receive enough rain to support large-scale agriculture.
c. was marred by such violent flooding that urbanization was almost impossible.
d. facilitated urbanization because of its tremendous agricultural potential.
e. was dominated by devastating monsoon rains.