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Brooklyn Technical H.S.
R. Asher Principal
AP World History
Mr. Stevens
Mongol Expansion—Interruption or Stimulant in the Advance of Civilization?
Opening Passage, p. 302 -305
1. Map Study: how does the map indicate how the Mongols might have laid a basis for the travels of Columbus? (see map p. 312 as well).
Conquest: The Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, p. 307 to 308
2. Geneticists estimate that one in seven people alive in the world today bear chromosomes in their DNA that can be traced back to Chinggis
Khan and his descendants. Combined with Khan’s own words in this passage, what does that tell us about the nature of gender relations
during the period of the Mongol conquests?
Russia in Bondage, p. 311 to 313
3. How did the Mongol conquests solidify the institution of serfdom in Russia?
4. How did the Mongol conquests guarantee that Russia would be “different” from the rest of Europe as history unfolded?
Gender Roles and the Convergence of Mongol and Chinese Cultures, p. 316-317
5. How did Mongol women chip away at patriarchal gender relations in China?
6. Why was the Mongol influence able to make more progress against patriarchy than Buddhist influence?
Mongol Tolerance and Foreign Cultural Influences
7. List a few important intellectual achievements of Kublai Khan’s court.
8. Why were Marco Polo’s reports from China bad news for the indigenous people of the Americas he never even met?
Social Policies and Scholar-Gentry Resistance
9. Why were Mongol priorities in terms of social class pre-capitalist as opposed to feudal in orientation?
10. Why did the Mongols gravitate toward drama and not poetry?
Tang/Song China
15. What did the practice of foot-binding encouraged by neoConfucianism reflect about gender attitudes during the Song period
1. Female subjugation was a common feature of
Chinese society.
2. Women had to participate in certain religious
rituals in order to maintain their superior religious
status.
3. It maintained gender equality since it was
practiced by both sexes.
4. It was a way of preserving the sanctity of
marriage.
5. It social liberation for women during the Song
Dynasty.
14. Central principles of Neo-Confucianism included all of the
following EXCEPT
1. social equality among the classes
2. rejection of the reincarnation concept
3. importance of the family
4. establishment of a government based on a merit
system
5. subordination of women
17. Intellectual achievements thrived during the Song Dynasty
mainly because of which of the following?
1. Confucian principles of education and the
scholar-gentry were revived.
2. Agricultural surpluses gave the social classes
more free time to pursue other activities.
3. The first mandatory education laws were
enforced by the empire.
4. Earlier Buddhist priests had ordered the
construction of schools and universities.
5. The introduction of movable type by Marco Polo
made book-making more efficient.
16. Which of the following was a technological achievement of Song
China?
1. development of a magnetic compass for
navigation
2. invention of the sun dial
3. earliest use of the cross-bow in battle
4. development of bronze armor and weapons
5. use of the arch in monuments in and buildings
10. All of the following were characteristics of the Song Dynasty
EXCEPT
1. extensive urbanization
2. increased production of non-consumable goods
(cash crops)
3. an elaborate economy based on paper currency
4. abandonment of metallurgy
5. a revival of Confucianism
7. The causes for the decline of the Tang Dynasty can best be
described as
1. internal, in the form of aristocratic usurpations of
the throne
2. internal, in the form of tensions between religious
groups
3. external, in the form of invading Arab armies
4. external, in the form of invaders from Tibet
5. both internal and external, in the form of military
and peasant rebellions and invasions from
northern nomadic groups
Brooklyn Technical H.S.
R. Asher Principal
AP World History
Mr. Stevens
Medieval Europe Awakens
5. Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, Western
Europe was
1. ruled by large military aristocracies
2. unified under the Goths
3. a series of colonies to the Byzantine Empire
4. ruled by decentralized tribal groups
5. conquered by Umayyad armies
6. What effect did the growth of feudalism in Middle Ages
Europe have on the aristocracy?
1. Aristocrats participated less in political
administration.
2. Aristocrats were forced to give up their lands to the
central ruler.
3. Most aristocrats were removed from public office
following the establishment of civil service
examinations.
4. Aristocrats were forced to emancipate their slaves.
5. Aristocrats acquired new rights and privileges as
powerful landholding nobles.
7. What was the basis for the feudal economy during the
Middle Ages in Western Europe?
1. local trade between the different manors
2. trade contacts with Arab merchants from north Africa
and the Iberian peninsula
3. agricultural labor of the peasant classes
4. exports of raw materials to the Byzantine Empire to
manufacture finished products
5. selling of agricultural lands to the Catholic church
8. All of the following were characteristics of European
feudalism EXCEPT
1. the manor was a large estate controlled by a lord
2. the vassal received a parcel of land in exchange
for providing military protection to the lord
3. there were more peasants than lords on a manor
4. agricultural production sustained the feudal economy
5. slaves and peasants freely moved from manor to
manor
9. An important contribution of the medieval craft guilds was
that they
1. increased competition
2. set standards of quality for manufactured goods
3. encouraged trade between nations
4. united the workers against the masters
5. resolved the tensions between the European and
Islamic merchants
11. Which of the following developments led to the other four
during the High Middle Ages?
1. greater agricultural production due to new laborsaving devices and expansion of arable land
2. revival of trade and commercial capitalism
3. urbanization in northern Europe
4. schools and universities were established throughout
Europe
5. new guilds formed for artisans
12. Which of the following increased trade during the Late
Middle Ages?
1. New banking houses in Italy and central Europe
became more prominent.
2. Commercial alliances were formed between
Europeans and the Seljuk Turks.
3. The Swahili city-states of eastern Africa ended the
competing Indian Ocean trade.
4. Catholicism spread throughout western Europe.
5. The downfall of the Byzantine Empire opened up new
trade routes to Western Europeans.
13. Why was the revival of towns a significant development in
medieval Europe?
1. The manorial system was abandoned as peasants left
for the city.
2. It led to increased tensions between peasants and
lords.
3. The towns stimulated trade and intellectual activity.
4. Europeans no longer had to depend on long-distance
trade to acquire manufactured products.
5. It weakened the Holy Roman Empire by promoting
decentralization.
14. One motive for serfs to migrate to the medieval cities of
Europe was
1. they could live in their own houses with their families
2. they were allowed to obtain church membership
3. they would be liberated from their serf status
4. they could hold political office
5. they no longer had to pay tithes to the church
15. During the High Middle Ages, what brought about the
Europeans' renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman
texts?
1. establishment of Catholicism as the official religion of
the Holy Roman Empire
2. contacts made between Europeans and Muslims
during the Crusades
3. abandonment of the manorial system
4. dissolution of the Silk Roads
5. growth of commerce and manufacturing in European
cities