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Practice AP MC Questions Which long-distance trade network was stabilized in the period historians term the Pax Mongolica (Mongol Peace)?
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Indian Ocean routes Triangular trade routes East Asian sea routes Silk Roads Trans-Sahara routes
Which European power was first to establish large-scale slave-trading operations on the African continent for the purposes of export to plantations in the Americas? – – – – –
Practice AP MC Questions Which of the following was the most decisive change Mongol rule brought to Russia?
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– Emancipation of the serfs – Migration of the center of power from Kiev to Moscow – Permanent separation of Russian culture from that of the West – Abandonment of the Cyrillic alphabet – Adoption of Buddhism among Russia’s elite
Which would be the LEAST typical trade transaction along Africa’s northeast coast in the period 1450-1750? – Ivory exported to India – Gold exported to Persia – Female slaves exported to Arabian peninsula for domestic labor – Female slaves exported to a West Indies sugar plantation – Copies of the Koran imported to coastal towns
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Which of the following dealt the most devastating blow to the Abbasid caliphate in particular and Islamic civilization in general? Christian crusader incursions in the Near East Ottoman Turkic conquest of Constantinople Mongol invasion of Mesopotamia U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan after September 11, 2001 – Portuguese defeat of the Ottoman navy – – – –
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Which Western power was first to ban its citizens from engaging in the slave trade? – – – – –
France England United States Portugal Spain
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Refusal to adopt Chinese civil service exams Dependence on Muslims and nomads, not Confucian bureaucrats, as next in command in the exercise of power Stubborn clinging to nomadic habits and refusal to settle down and administer the new dynasty from one imperial city
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Which practices were employed by Kublai Khan and later Yuan dynasty rulers to ensure Mongol dominance in China?
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I and II II and III I and III I, II and III II only
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Who led a short-lived reemergence of Central Asian nomadic dominance after the fall of the Mongol Empire? – – – – –
Suleyman the Magnificent Kublai Khan Babur Timur-I Lang Genghis Khan
The shift of the Russian imperial capital to which city indicated a shift in orientation toward the West under the rule of Peter the Great? Moscow Kiev Vladivostok St. Petersburg Belgrade
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How did Russia tend to fit into the emerging global economy in the period 1450-1750? – As a source of serf labor transported to till the soils of Western Europe – As a market for grain grown in the New World – As the primary Old World destination of the silver begin taken out of the New World – As a supplier of grain, timber, fur, and other raw materials to the West – As a center of industrial development based on export of finished goods