<p>Name______Class Pd__ Date______</p><p>AP Semester Exam Review 2014-2015</p><p>1. What was the most significant development of the Neolithic Revolution?</p><p>2. Describe the Mesopotamian relationship to their gods.</p><p>3. Describe 3 major effects of the Bantu on Sub-Saharan Africa.</p><p>4. Define technological diffusion. Give an example.</p><p>5. List 3 achievements of the Greeks.</p><p>6. List 3 achievements of the Persians. 7. List 3 achievements of the Romans.</p><p>8. List 3 achievements of the Gupta.</p><p>9. List 3 achievements of the Han Chinese.</p><p>10. List 3 achievements of the Ghana.</p><p>11. List 3 achievements of the Abbasids.</p><p>12. List 3 achievements of the Tang/ Song Chinese.</p><p>13. List 3 achievements of the Mayas.</p><p>14. List 3 achievements of the Mayans. 15. List 3 achievements of the Aztecs.</p><p>16. List 3 achievements of the Incas.</p><p>17. List 3 achievements of the Mali.</p><p>18. List 3 achievements of the Songhai.</p><p>19. List 3 achievements of the Ottomans.</p><p>20. List 3 achievements of the Mughal.</p><p>21. List 3 achievements of the Safavid.</p><p>22. List 3 achievements of the Mesopotamians. 23. List 3 achievements of the Egyptians.</p><p>24. List 3 achievements of the Indus Valley.</p><p>25. List 3 achievements of the Shang/Zhou/Qin.</p><p>26. How were early Buddhism and Christianity similar?</p><p>27. What trade route linked East Asia and the Mediterranean Sea between 200BCE and 1450 CE?</p><p>28. What region was very decentralized during between 500-1000 CE: Western Europe, Anatolia, Central Asia, or East Asia? Why?</p><p>29. Summarize the main tenets of Confucianism.</p><p>30. Define patriarchal.</p><p>31. Define matriarchal. 32. Summarize the main tenets of Daoism.</p><p>33. Compare and contrast Daoism and Confucianism.</p><p>34. Summarize how Buddhism spread into Southeast Asia and China.</p><p>35. Name 3 factors that caused China’s population to double between the 600-1450 CE.</p><p>36. What was the main way that Islam spread to West Africa?</p><p>37. Define the Pax Romana. How did it benefit its people? 38. Define the Pax Mongolica. How did it benefit its people?</p><p>39. How did Islam affect gender relations as it spread between 1200-1600?. </p><p>40. What is a universalizing religion? Give an example.</p><p>41. Read about Borobudur on page 330 in your text book and on the internet. Summarize the 5w’s. </p><p>42. What was the Little Ice Age? How did it affect the Black Death? 43. Why did the Columbian Exchange involve have more significant consequences than earlier biological exchanges in world history?</p><p>44. Compare and contrast the Aztecs and Ottoman Empires. How were they similar? How were they different?</p><p>45. What commodity was most the most significantly transformed the global economy? How?</p><p>46. Give 3 examples of how cultural diffusion occurred between Japan and Tang/Song China.</p><p>47. Where were the majority of the slaves sent to in the Americas? Why?</p><p>48. Define tributary state.</p><p>49. Who was Ibn Battuta? Why was he important? 50. What role did the Swahili coast play in world trade?</p><p>51. Why did the Chinese close Buddhists monasteries in the late Tang dynasty?</p><p>52. What were some common features between Ming China’s government and the Ottoman government?</p><p>53. Name 3 technological innovations that spread from China to Eurasia by the 11th century.</p><p>54. How did Vietnam, Korea, and Japan combine elements of Chinese cultural with their local traditions in the pre-modern era?</p><p>55. How was Chinese culture initially introduced into Korea and Vietnam?</p><p>56. What did Japan and Europe have in common in the 10th century?</p><p>57. Define caesaropapism.</p><p>58. Define serfdom. 59. Define a city-state.</p><p>60. Name 3 ancient cultures that were city-states.</p><p>61. What factors led to the collapse of the Han, Roman, and Gupta Empires?</p><p>62. Why did the Mayan Empire collapse?</p><p>63. How were the Aztecs and Incas defeated?</p><p>64. Compare and contrast the Mongols treatment of the Russians to the way the Aztecs treated their conquered peoples.</p><p>65. Compare and contrast the Inca and Roman Empires.</p><p>66. What was an important social continuities in state structures existed between 600-1450CE? 67. What does the map below illustrate?</p><p>68. Describe the Trans-Saharan trade.</p><p>69. Define diaspora.</p><p>70. Identify 3 different merchant diaspora communities located? What did they all have in common? 71. How did the Mongol conquests encourage trade along the Silk Roads in the 13th century?</p><p>72. Compare and contrast the Roman and Persian Empires.</p><p>73. Compare and contrast the Roman and Han Empires.</p><p>74. What were the major effects of the Polynesian migrations in the Pacific between 600-1450?</p><p>75. What empire was an important continuity in the Mediterranean region between 400 and 1000CE?</p><p>76. Compare and contrast the Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire. </p><p>77. How did the establishment of nunneries in both Buddhism and Christianity affect their respective societies?</p><p>78. Describe the reign of Augustus Caesar. Why was his rule important? 79. Describe the political and cultural achievements of the Song and Tang dynasties.</p><p>80. Describe the political and cultural achievements of Ancient Athens.</p><p>81. How did the Bubonic Plague spread to Europe and Africa?</p><p>82. What region was NOT affected by the expansion of European trade networks in the period between 1450-1750?</p><p>83. What contributed most to the Ottoman Empire’s successful expansion between1450-1600?</p><p>84. Compare and contrast Aztec pyramids and Babylonian ziggurats.</p><p>85. Why did Chinese citizens move to Southeast Asia and Indonesia during the Ming dynasty?</p><p>86. Explain the rights of non-Muslims in the Ot.toman Empire. Explain the millet system.</p><p>87. Who were the janissaries? What was the devshirme? 88. What Chinese philosophy is similar to Machiavelli?</p><p>89. Describe Byzantine, Islamic, Chinese, and Gothic architecture.</p><p>90. Define the Mandate of Heaven.</p><p>91. What had the greatest impact on West Africa?</p><p>92. Where is the oldest Christian community located in Africa?</p><p>93. Compare and contrast the Ottoman and Safavid Empires.</p><p>94. Put the following empires in correct chronological order and list the continent that they are located on.</p><p>Mayan, Aztec, Inca, Mughal, Ottoman, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Tang, Song, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indus</p><p>95. List the 5 Pillars of Islam.</p><p>96. Describe the major tenets of Buddhism. 97. Describe the major tenets of Hinduism.</p><p>98. Define feudalism.</p><p>99. What was the earliest material used or writing?</p><p>100. Describe the importance of Johann Gutenberg in World History.</p><p>101. How did Eastern Orthodox differ from Roman Catholicism?</p><p>102. Why was Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis significant? </p>