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AP WORLD HISTORY
1) What comprised pre-Islamic Arabic society?
a. Hunter-gatherers
b. Migrant scholars
c. Agriculturalists
d. Nomadic tribes
2) The Almoravids and Almohads are significant
because:
a. They help to spread a strict form of Islam
to the Iberian Peninsula and along the
Western coast of Africa
b. They were groups of Muslim traders who
brought Islam to Southeast Asia
c. They are dynasties of African rulers who
converted to Islam
d. They are groups of scholars who had
dramatically different views towards nonMuslim knowledge
3) Jenne and Timbuktu are significant because
a. They are large and cosmopolitan cities in
Africa, directly challenging the idea that
African cities even during this period are
unsophisticated and poor
b. They are some of the few major cities in
Africa that developed free from Islam
c. They are the sites of major battles
between Muslims and native Africans
d. They represent the African trend of
developing highly fortified cities
4) All of the following statements are true about
Ghana, Mali, and Songhay EXCEPT
a. They are three important Sudanic states
b. They participated heavily in coastal trade
c. They had great military leaders which
aided in each empire’s regional
dominance
d. Their rulers enforced their power and
authority through Muslim dominance
5) Charles Martel’s Battle of Tours of 732 is
significant because
a. It kept Muslims confined to the Iberian
Peninsula
b. It ended in the complete expulsion of
Muslims and Jews from Europe
c. It marked a key moment in European
military weakness
d. It completely severed trade relationships
between the Western Europeans and the
Middle East
CHAPTERS 6, 7, 8 EXAM REVIEW
6) The Abbasid caliphate saw all of the following
areas improve in the Abbasid Golden Age
EXCEPT:
a. Abbasidian political theories
b. Scientific discoveries
c. Islamic literature
d. Muslim architecture
7) What integrates sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of
the world?
a. Knowledge of classical antiquity
b. Islam
c. Christianity
d. Military battles for dominance
8) Which of the following statements is FALSE
about stateless societies?
a. They are centralized forms of power
b. Power is held by a council or families
c. It is difficult to resist external pressures
under a stateless society
d. There is generally no undertaking of large
building projects with stateless societies
9) How does the Abbasid Caliphate end?
a. A new family of Arabic Muslims, the
Umayyads, take over at the Battle of the
River Zab
b. Internal political rivalries result in the
murder of the final caliph
c. The last Abbasid caliph and his family is
murdered by the Mongols in 1258
d. The Seljuk Turks and Buyids of Persia
weaken the caliphate enough that
eventually the last Abbasid caliph resigns
10) Who primarily converts to Islam in Africa?
a. All people; when a king converted, he
mandated that his people convert as well.
b. Traders primarily; this gave them good
connections to other Muslim traders
c. Peasants only; the messages of Islam did
not resonate with the elite
d. Mainly the elite; the common people
often maintained their own indigenous
religions
11) The group in control of Jerusalem at the time of
the Crusades was the
a. Persians
b. Buyids of Persia
c. Umayyads
d. Seljuk Turks
AP WORLD HISTORY
12) Which of the following was NOT a consequence
of the Moorish occupation of Spain?
a. The Moors brought advanced knowledge
of medicine and science
b. The Moors left behind a distinct artistic
and architectural style
c. The Moors persecuted Jewish scholars
and professionals
d. The Moors’ expansion worried
Europeans, who eventually fought Moors
13) Which of the following is true of the Abbasid
Caliphate?
a. It presided over the golden age of Islamic
culture
b. It forbade Jews and Christians to practice
their religions
c. It provided powerful and skilled defenses
against Crusaders
d. It established separate Muslim states in
India and the Western Sahara
14) Like Mali, Great Zimbabwe’s wealth came from
a. Regional and interregional trade
b. Agriculture and farming
c. Working as mercenaries for larger
empires
d. Herding cattle and selling goods at local
markets
15) All of the following are characteristics of Islam
EXCEPT:
a. A monotheistic belief in one god that
must be worshipped as the only god
b. A belief in community of believers unified
by their faith above all else
c. A tradition of passing down the central
teachings of their faith orally
d. A belief in the importance of prayer,
fasting, and charity
CHAPTERS 6, 7, 8 EXAM REVIEW
16) In contrast to Islam’s arrival in West Africa and
the Swahili coast, its introduction to India was
a. More likely to influence only the elite
b. More violent
c. Less disruptive to the existing social
structure
d. More acceptable to the conquered elite
17) Like the earlier Han and Roman Empires, the
Abbasid Dynasty weakened because of the
difficulty of
a. Controlling ambitious religious leaders
b. Meeting challenges from powerful cities
on the borders of the empire
c. Building powerful navies to protect
overseas possessions
d. Governing a vast, multi-ethnic domain
18) Which of the following technologies directly
stimulated trade on the Indian Ocean routes?
a. The compass
b. The lateen sail
c. The junk
d. The caravel
19) The caliph
a. Always ruled over one extended area of
land from Spain to India
b. Was a position that dissolved a short time
after Muhammad’s death
c. Was a position passed down through one
family that traced its roots to Mecca
d. Was considered to be the successor of
Muhammad as well as a political leader
20) Which of the following best describes the spread
of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa?
a. Immediate conquest of the entire region
b. Systematic takeover of port cities
c. The absence of indigenous religions
d. Gradual conversion in various parts,
mostly resulting from trade
21) By 600-1450 CE, coastal cities in East Africa spoke
the Swahili language, which blended
a. Sudanic and Ethiopian influences
b. Egyptian and Persian influences
c. Bantu and Persian influences
d. Bantu and Arabic influences