AP World History Exam - Unit 3 ( Latest -
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- Which of the following distinguished the empires of Western Europe from other
empires?
Answer: They were initiated by maritime expansion.
- Which of the following was a reason that Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain were
the first to expand into the New World?
Answer: These lands were on the Atlantic coast and were closer to the Americas.
- Why did some Native Americans aid the Spanish in their initial invasion of the
New World?
Answer: To gain an advantage against their own enemies
- The colonial economy of the Spanish Empire in former Aztec and Inca lands was
Answer: based on commercial agriculture and mining.
- How did many Native Americans in Mesoamerica and Peru respond to Spanish
missionaries' efforts to convert them to Catholicism?
Answer: They blended their old customs into Catholic practices.
- Which of the following motivated Europeans to venture across the Atlantic
Ocean?
Answer: Rivalries between competing European states
- Which of the following describes slavery in Latin America?
Answer: Slaves could not be set free by their owners nor could they buy their
freedom.
- In contrast to the Portuguese and Spanish colonists in Latin America, British
colonists in North America Answer: sought to escape rather than re-create Eu ropean traditions in the Americas.
- How did Chinese and Russian expansion into Central Asia affect the nomadic
peoples inhabiting the steppe lands?
Answer: They no longer enjoyed political independence and economic prosperity.
- The Mughal ruler Akbar favored policies that promoted
Answer: a cosmopolitan and hybrid Indian-Persian-Turkic culture.
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- Which of the following was an outcome of the establishment of European
empires in the Americas?
Answer: The emergence of an Atlantic world connecting four continents
- Which of the following contributed to the great dying in the Americas?
Answer: -Native Americans' lack of immunity to European and African diseases
- How did silver from the mines of Mexico and Peru affect international
commerce?
Answer: It enabled Europeans to buy Chinese tea, silk, and porcelain.
- Which of the following is an example of the Columbian exchange?
Answer: The introduction of corn and potatoes into the Afro-Eurasian diet
- Which of the following policies reflects mercantilist thinking?
Answer: Accumulating precious metals
- Which of the following dominated the agricultural economy in British North
America?
Answer: Small-scale independent farmers working their own land
- Which of the following was a reason Russia expanded beginning in the sixteenth
century?
Answer: To secure its borders from attack
- Which of the following resulted from Russia's westward expansion in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
Answer: A program of westernization in Russia
- Which of the following reflects how Louis XIV saw his role as king as
expressed in his memoirs?Answer: ". . . I would doubtless be capable of governing other empires, just as the sun was capable of lighting up other worlds if they were exposed to its rays."
- What did the Portuguese do after they established sea routes to the Indian Ocean?
Answer: They conquered several strategic port cities.
- What was one main difference between the Spanish colonization of the
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Philippines and the Portuguese strongholds in the Indian Ocean basin?Answer: The Spanish converted Filipinos to Christianity while the Portuguese often blended into the local populations.