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WHAP EXAM REVIEW TEST #3: Post-Classical Period
1.
Which global force was the first to consistently
integrate sub-Saharan Africa into a global network
of exchange and ideas?
a. Globalization
b. Transatlantic slave trade
c. Roman Empire
d. Islamic civilization
e. Conquests of Alexander
2.
Which of the following was a common unifying
feature of sub-Saharan African societies in the
post-classical era?
a. Adoption of Islam by elites
b. Broad-based expansion of literacy among
the masses
c. Common Bantu linguistic roots
d. Matriarchal political power
e. Stateless societies
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North Africa served as a bridge for Muslim
influence to reach which area?
a. Persia
b. Central Asia
c. Anatolia
d. Spain
e. Scandinavia
Which indigenous African ethnic group adopted
and vigorously spread Islam?
a. Khoisan
b. Zulu
c. Berber
d. Ethiopian
e. Bedouin
Which African society held on most fiercely to
Christianity in the period of Islamic expansion in
Africa?
a. Mali
b. Ghana
c. Ethiopia
d. Tunisia
e. Swahili Coast
Which of the following does not belong in a list of
similarities in the process of how Islam spread to
South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa?
a. Islam arrived with traders and took root first
in urban areas
b. The spread of Islam was mainly peaceful
c. Political power remained in the hands of
non urban elites
d. Considerable syncretism was involved
e. A majority of the population in all three
areas converted to Islam.
Which postclassical civilization was most famous for
its extensive and centrally planned imperial road
network?
a. Roman
b. Aztec
c. Incan
d. Mongol
e. Mali
8.
Which of the following organizations group people
according to occupation, regulated
apprenticeships and upheld standards of
workmanship?
a. Communes
b. Monasteries
c. Guilds
d. Parliaments
e. Unions
9.
Of those listed, which civilization existed in the most
complete state of isolation between 600-1450?
a. Ming china
b. Delhi sultanate
c. Aztec empire
d. Carolingian France
e. Kievan Rus
10. Which of the following is most closely associated
with postclassical Western Europe?
a. Sudra
b. Slave
c. Proletarian
d. Plebeian
e. Serf
11. What was the title earned by students who passed
the most difficult battery of Chinese civil service
examinations?
a. Gentry
b. Sensei
c. Eunuch
d. Jinshi
e. vizier
12. Russian civilization emerged nearest to what city?
a. St.Petersburg
b. Kiev
c. Moscow
d. Leningrad
e. Warsaw
13. Which dynasty built the largest land empire?
a. Zhou
b. Han
c. Tang
d. Song
e. Ming
14. The Byzantine Empire flourished as a crossroads of
trade from which regions?
a. Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia
b. India, Mediterranean and Asia
c. Sub Saharan Africa, India and the Middle
East
d. Middle East, Asia and Scandinavia
e. Scandinavia, Mediterranean and India
15. Which region, while under Muslim control,
remained the least converted and integrated into
the empire constructed in the era of the Umayyad
and Abbasid caliphates?
a. South Asia
b. East Asia
c. Anatolian Peninsula
d. Egypt
e. Morocco
16. Who would not have qualified as a ‘dhimmi’ in the
Abbasid caliphate?
a. Jews
b. Catholics
c. Hindu
d. Greek/Russian Orthodox
e. African animist
17. Which of the following was the most decisive
change Mongol rule brought to Russia?
a. Emancipation of the serfs
b. Migration of the center of power from Kiev
to Moscow
c. Permanent separation of Russian culture
from that of the West
d. Abandonment of the Cyrillic alphabet
e. Incorporation of animism into Russian
Orthodoxy
18. Pre-Islamic Arab society is best characterized as:
a. Pastoral nomadic
b. Sedentary agricultural
c. Highly urbanized
d. Maritime trade based
e. Hunter gatherer
19. What ideology gained influence in the period of
disorder that followed the collapse of the Han
dynasty?
a. Buddhism
b. Legalism
c. Taoism
d. Neo-Confucianism
e. Communism
20. Which of the following was the great infrastructural
achievement of postclassical China during the
Tang-Song era?
a. Great Wall
b. Forbidden City
c. Port at Canton
d. Grand Canal
e. Port of Macao
21. Which postclassical societies most closely mirrored
the same political patterns for most of the period?
a. Mongol-Chinese
b. Japanese-Chinese
c. Japanese-Western Europe
d. Mongol-Russian
e. Japanese-Russian
22. Maya, Aztec and Inca civilization managed to
construct monumental structures without what of
the following?
a. Writing systems
b. State authority
c. Draft animals
d. Slave labor
e. Stone tools
23. By which route would medieval women have
been most likely to find an alterative path in life
outside of marriage?
a. Joining a crusade
b. Entering a guild
c. Witchcraft
d. Entering a convent
e. Entering banking
24. Which two Muslim cities served as political and
administrative centers of Muslim empires during the
Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates?
a. Baghdad and Istanbul
b. Mecca and Medina
c. Mecca and Baghdad
d. Baghdad and Damascus
e. Mecca and Damascus
25. In which postclassical civilization did women enjoy
the highest status, in general?
a. Tang China
b. Islamic
c. Carolingian
d. Heian Japan
e. Aztec
26. Which of the following best describes the status of
Buddhism in China after Tang-era persecutions?
a. Chinese emperors continued to practice
Buddhism
b. Buddhism grew rapidly as a form of
rebellion against the emperor
c. Buddhism disappeared completely from
China
d. The presence of Buddhism remained
largely unchanged
e. Buddhism continued to exist but on a
much smaller scale
27. Which of the following regions of Western Europe
remained the most insulated from the general
trend toward disorder following the fall of the
Roman Empire?
a. France
b. England
c. Germany
d. Spain
e. Italy
28. Which body of water was the scene of trade
involving merchant ships from the most diverse
collection of civilizations in the postclassical era?
a. Atlantic Ocean
b. Pacific Ocean
c. Baltic Sea
d. Indian Ocean
e. Sea of Japan
29. Which best characterizes the impact of the Magna
Carta?
a. The principle of representative
government and limited monarchy was
established
b. More accurate maps were produced
c. Universal manhood suffrage became the
norm for feudal societies
d. Parliamentary rule replaced monarchy
across Western Europe
e. Increasingly, females came to have a
place in politics
30. What is the name of the family units into which
Aztec society was organized?
a. Calpulli
b. Ayullu
c. Quipu
d. Clans
e. Tribes
31. Which group benefited from newfound higher
status in the period of Mongol rule in China?
a. Scholar-gentry
b. Aristocracy
c. Peasantry
d. Merchants
e. Buddhist monks
32. As Islam spread, which of the following proved
most durable across sub-Saharan Africa?
a. Ancestor worship
b. Roman Catholicism
c. Zen Buddhism
d. Coptic Christianity
e. Roman polytheism
33. The leader most closely associated with Islam in
Africa is:
a. Sundiata Keita
b. Sunni Ali
c. Mansa Musa
d. Ibn Batutta
e. Kwame Nkrumah
34. Which of the following does not belong on a list of
characteristics common to the decline of both the
Roman and the Abbasid empires?
a. Succession fights for the imperial throne
b. Frequent interference of military
commanders in politics
c. Growing dependence on nomadic
warriors as mercenaries
d. Decline in agricultural productivity
e. Imperial conversion to a new religion
35. Which of the following does not belong in a list of
similarities between Byzantine and dynastic
political rule in the Tang era?
a. An imperial bureaucracy that is based in
meritocracy but generally staffed by
members of the upper class
b. A throne occasionally held by women
c. An emperor whose rule has God’s
approval
d. Focused initiatives to expand imperial
boundaries
e. Centralized government that oversees
most aspects of life
36. Merchants played a central role and were given
high social status in all of the following areas
except:
a. Aztec Empire
b. Swahili Coast
c. Song Dynasty
d. Bedouin Arabia
e. Indian Ocean
37. Which of the following rulers is not correctly paired
with the empire they ruled?
a. Justinian-Byzantine
b. Mansa Musa-Mali
c. Charlemagne—Carolingian
d. Muhammad—Umayyad
e. Kublai Khan—Yuan
38. Which religious schism stemmed from disputes over
legitimate succession of leadership?
a. Eastern Orthodox and Catholic
b. Mahayana and Theravada
c. Coptic and Orthodox
d. Mahayana and Zen
e. Sunni and Shia
39. Neo Confucianism is a movement from which
dynasty?
a. Han
b. Tang
c. Song
d. Yuan
e. Ming
40. Which of the following does not belong on a list of
features of a stateless society?
a. Delayed ability to respond to external
threats
b. Limited ability to mobilize for war
c. Mass slave revolts
d. Difficulty undertaking large construction
projects
e. Lack of stability required for consistent and
growing long-distance trade
41. By 1450, Islam had spread to all of the following
regions EXCEPT
a. Western Europe.
b. East Asia.
c. the Middle East.
d. India.
e. East Africa.
42. The reasons for the Arabs’ (Muslim) successful
conquest of the Middle East and north Africa was
most likely due to
a. the promise of booty to be won.
b. overpopulation in the Arabian peninsula.
c. the desire to convert others to Islam.
d. the weaknesses caused by their long wars
of Islam’s two main adversaries, Persia and
the Byzantine Empire.
e. the unity provided by their faith in Islam.
43. The decline of women’s position within Islamic
civilization was due to
a. Islamic dogma.
b. contacts with older sedentary cultures and
their highly stratified urban systems.
c. the necessities of war and holy war.
d. the high death rates of males & the
increased number of women in Islamic
society “decreased the value” of women
e. bedouin traditions.
44. The Sufis
a. condemned scientific and cultural
borrowing from non-Muslim sources.
b. helped spread Islam.
c. objected to the violence and social strife,
which befell the Abbasid world.
d. led religious wars against Christians in
Europe and the Middle East.
e. attempted to blend Islam with Judaism
and Christianity.
45. Sub-Saharan African societies are similar to Latin
American Indian societies in that both
a. built classical civilizations without cultural
diffusion from other civilizations.
b. developed in mountainous environments.
c. originated complex mathematics and
scientific traditions.
d. had numerous similarities making it
impossible to generalize about them.
e. were devastated by contacts with
Europeans and Arabs, which led to mass
epidemics and the death of whole
indigenous populations.
46. After the arrival of Islam, societies in west Africa
a. became largely patrilineal.
b. implemented Islamic law regarding the
seclusion of women.
c. often continued to recognize traditions
granting women extensive rights.
d. abandoned the tradition of polygamy.
e. abolished slavery.
47. Serfs differed from slaves in that
a. serfs were largely commercialized artisans
while slaves were agricultural.
b. serfs were ethnically Europeans while
slaves were Muslims, pagans, and Africans.
c. they could not be bought or sold, and
owned some of the land they farmed.
d. serfs could serve in the military, while slaves
could not.
e. slaves frequently were better educated
and lived in towns.
48. Although later civilizations in Mesoamerica
borrowed and built on the previous
accomplishments of the Olmecs and Maya, later
civilizations
a. were not as war-like as their predecessors
had been.
b. rarely surpassed their intellectual
predecessors.
c. failed to improve on the political
institutions and types of Olmec and Maya
states.
d. abandoned polytheism in favor of
monotheism.
e. abandoned trade.
49. One reason offered for the expansion of the Inca
state was
a. a need for humans to sacrifice to the state
gods.
b. overpopulation and the need for new
crop land.
c. each new Inca ruler had to secure new
land and wealth for himself.
d. changing environment and climate that
drove the Incas from their homeland.
e. superior technologies made it easy for the
Incas to conquer other peoples.
50. The major barrier to west European expansion prior
to the 15th century was
a. the low level of European technology.
b. the lack of interest by western European
rulers for acquiring territory.
c. the overwhelming power of Muslim and
Mongol states.
d. religious civil wars that divided western
Europe and made overseas expansion
impossible.
e. the lack of popular interest and public
funds to support expansion.
51. Which of the following belief systems emerged
from political disorder, did not worship a deity, and
remained primarily regional beliefs?
a. Buddhism and Confucianism.
b. Buddhism and Hinduism.
c. Confucianism and Islam.
d. Judaism and Islam.
e. Confucianism and Daoism.
52. Which of the following concepts was introduced
after the other four?
a. The Four Noble Truths.
b. The Way
c. The Holy Trinity.
d. The Five Pillars.
e. The forgiveness of sins.
53. Which of the following is true of Pacific Ocean
trade during the period 600 to 1450?
a. European traders carried on active trade
with Pacific islanders.
b. It was dominated by Malay sailors.
c. Pacific islanders concentrated on regional
trade.
d. It included active trade between Mongol
China and Japan.
e. Pacific islanders carried on trade with East
Asia.
54. Japanese and European feudalism were similar in
that
a. bushido and chivalry involved reciprocal
relationships.
b. both were based on group loyalties.
c. neither emphasized personal ties in
political relationships.
d. both involved the receipt of contracts.
e. both ended as their respective regions
developed centralized governments.
55. In the period between 600 and 1450
a. agriculture increased the aboriginal
population of Australia.
b. North American nations north of Mexico
were more settled than the natives of
Mesoamerica.
c. North American and Mesoamerican
societies were connected by trade.
d. Asian trade networks reached to the
islands of Oceania.
e. metallurgy was more advanced in
Polynesia than in Mesoamerica and South
America.