AP World History Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. An Ottoman official recruits Christian boys, converts them to Islam, and trains them for military or administrative service. Which institution does this describe?
The millet system
The encomienda system
The zamindar system
The devshirme system
2. During the Cold War, a newly independent state accepts development assistance from both superpowers but refuses to join either military bloc. Which policy does this most clearly reflect?
Containment
Appeasement
Nonalignment
Collective security under a colonial alliance
3. Which consequence of the Columbian Exchange most dramatically affected Indigenous populations in the Americas during the sixteenth century?
The rapid disappearance of all Indigenous political states
The immediate abolition of coerced labor
The introduction of American maize into local agriculture
Severe population decline caused largely by Afro-Eurasian diseases
4. A colonized population organizes boycotts, marches, civil disobedience, and negotiations that eventually contribute to independence. Which decolonization strategy does this scenario most closely represent?
Mass nationalist mobilization combining noncooperation with political negotiation
Military reconquest by the former imperial state
Settler expansion into neighboring territories
The permanent replacement of nationalism by imperial federalism
5. A seventeenth-century government limits imports, subsidizes domestic producers, and seeks colonies as sources of raw materials. Which economic policy best fits these actions?
Collectivized agriculture
Laissez-faire capitalism
Mercantilism
Subsistence economics
6. During World War I, governments introduced rationing, directed industrial production, promoted war bonds, and used mass propaganda. These measures best illustrate which development?
The expansion of total war through broad mobilization of society
The replacement of nationalism by internationalism
The separation of military needs from civilian life
The decline of state involvement in civilian economies
7. Which pattern represented an important continuity after many Latin American colonies gained independence in the early nineteenth century?
Creole elites often retained political and economic influence despite the end of colonial rule
Independence immediately produced equal land ownership across social groups
European cultural influence disappeared from public institutions
The new states generally restored direct Indigenous imperial rule
8. Why did plantation owners in the Americas increasingly rely on enslaved African labor between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries?
African states required all prisoners of war to migrate to the Americas
Labor-intensive cash-crop production created demand that Atlantic slave-trading networks supplied
European indentured servants were legally prohibited from agricultural work
Indigenous communities experienced no demographic disruption after European contact
9. A revolutionary pamphlet argues that legitimate government rests on the consent of the governed rather than hereditary privilege. Which Enlightenment principle does it express?
Divine-right monarchy
Popular sovereignty
Economic mercantilism
Social Darwinism
10. A merchant sailing from East Africa to India around 1400 plans the voyage around winds that reverse direction seasonally. Which factor is the merchant using?
Atlantic Ocean trade winds
Indian Ocean monsoon patterns
Mediterranean westerlies
Pacific El Niño cycles
11. Which combination best explains why industrialization began in Great Britain before most other regions?
Accessible coal, investment capital, expanding markets, and agricultural change
Dependence on imported coal and the absence of overseas markets
Political isolation and restrictions on commercial investment
A large serf population and state ownership of all workshops
12. A colonial government builds railways from inland production zones to coastal ports while local manufacturing remains limited. What was the most likely primary purpose of this network?
To isolate the colony from international commerce
To move raw materials efficiently for export and strengthen colonial administration
To distribute industrial ownership equally among colonial subjects
To end the colony's dependence on foreign manufactured goods
13. Which development most directly helped increase long-distance exchange across Eurasia during the period of Mongol rule?
The replacement of overland trade by Atlantic shipping
The permanent end of warfare between Eurasian states
Greater security and coordination along major Silk Road routes
A Mongol ban on foreign merchants and diplomats
14. Why did the post-World War I language of national self-determination disappoint many anticolonial activists in Africa and Asia?
The principle was used only to justify communist revolutions
The principle required colonies to restore precolonial borders immediately
Anticolonial leaders generally preferred permanent imperial government
European powers applied the principle selectively while retaining most overseas empires
15. Which trend was a common governmental response to the Great Depression in several parts of the world?
A universal return to unrestricted international trade
The complete abandonment of tariffs and currency controls
Greater state intervention in economic planning, employment, or social welfare
The transfer of all economic authority to the League of Nations
16. Which policy best illustrates Japan's response to Western pressure during the Meiji era?
Rejecting foreign technology to preserve the Tokugawa political order
Dividing Japan into colonies controlled by European powers
Ending centralized government in favor of independent feudal domains
Using state-supported industrialization and institutional reform to strengthen national power