AP World History Practice Exam 2

AP World History Practice Exam 2 GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved)

• Which of the following best describes the most likely purpose of telling these

details about Sundiata?

Answer: To persuade listeners that his rule over the Mali Empire was justified.

• The best evidence to support the claim in the exerpt that Sundiata "was striving

towards a great destiny" is that Mali became...

Answer: wealthy from trans-Sa- haran trade conducted by Muslims.

• Which of the following conclusions about porcelain is best supported by the

passage?

Answer: People in the Middle East preferred luxury items made in Persia.

• What development most aided the growth in the labor supply needed for the

increasing production of porcelain and other manufactured goods?Answer: The changes in agriculture, including the introduction of a fast-growing variety of rice known as champa, increased food production.

• The passage most strongly supports the idea that the Mongols...

Answer: created a loose confederation of local kings, sultans, and caliphs.

• Which of the following was the most immediate political change in the

Mongol Empire after the death of Genghis Khan?

Answer: Russian rulers in Moscow became more powerful.

• Which of the following best explains the ideas expressed by the author in the

title and contents of the passage? - David E. Stannard, American Holocaust:

Columbus and the Conquest of the New World, 1992.

Answer: Stannard respects Columbus for searching for a Northwest Passage to

the East Indies.

• Spanish goals diverged from those Stannard attributed to Columbus in the passage

with the...

Answer: development of a profitable tobacco industry.

• European exploration at the end of the 15th century was motivated most strongly

by a desire to...

Answer: avoid the ottoman-controlled trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean.

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• What factor is most responsible for the trend of increasing trade in the

Indian Ocean during the period shown on the timeline? - Chola King- dom (850-1267), Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526), Mughal Empire (1526-1857).

Answer: The growth of Dar al-Islam.

• The Mughals consolidated rule of South Asia as a...

Answer: Hindu Empire.

• As shown by the Benin Bronze, the most influential context shaping West Africa

in the 16th century was the...

Answer: adoption of European political structures by West African rulers.

• The Benin Bronze... could best be used as evidence for a historian studying..

Answer: hierarchy in West African society.

• The empires, shown on the map, expanded during the 15th and 16th

centuries mostly as a result of diffusion of technology of...

Answer: transportation.

• Which of the following arguments about empires in the 16th century is best

supported by the evidence shown on the map? (Page. 728)

Answer: Political unity characterized Dar al-Islam after the Abbasid Caliphate.

• The views expressed in Source 1 and Source 2 are best used as evidence of

which of the following? (Page. 729)

Answer: State expansion was resisted by local groups.

• An important context of the successful Spanish conquest was that...

Answer: the Aztec population grew after the introduction of Spanish technology.

• Which of the following contributed most to the trend in British population

shown in the table in the years from 1750 to 1770 (Page. 730)

Answer: The spread of disease pathogens along trade routes.

• Which of the following statements describes developments in the Americas that

contributed to the changes in British sugar imports?

Answer: British primarily relied on indentured servants to work on their sugar

colonies in the Caribbean.

• Which of the following ideologies led to the British economic interactions

with their American colonies that are shown in the table? (Page. 730)-

Answer: Free-trade

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