Advanced Placement World History
Unit 9: The Age of Encounters
PretestSection 1: Multiple Choice
Directions: Choose the best answer to the following questions.
1) The Mesoamerican ruling classes were motivated to build pyramids in order to demonstrate A. Religious power
B. Artistic brilliance
C. Mastery of architectural and astronomical techniques D. The levels of social classes in their societies
2) The center of the Hopewell culture was a trade city known as A. Cahokia
B. Teotihuacan C. Tenochtitlan D. Seattle
3) Which city was the most influential Mesoamerican city before the Mexica? A. Cahokia
B. Teotihuacan C. Tenochtitlan D. Miami
4) Which of the following Mesoamerican patterns began with the Toltecs? A. Human sacrifice
B. The development of the jaguar motif
C. Communication with the aliens from Allegorix IX D. Belief in Quetzalcoatl
5) Conquered provinces resented Aztec rule because the A) Aztecs forced conquered people to migrate.
B) Aztecs forced conquered people to join the military. C) Aztecs used conquered people for human sacrifice.
D) Aztecs forced conquered people to change their agricultural methods. 6) Before the arrival of Columbus, Mesoamerican codices emphasized
A) Warfare
B) Religious beliefs C) Farming
D) Architecture
7) Which empire was based upon corvee labor, public warehouses, and quipu records? A) Mexica
B) Inca C) Toltec D) Nazca
A) Farming plots created with woven sticks
B) Irrigation canals and embankments between them C) Artificially-dug flat areas in mountainsides D) A government corvée system
9) The Incan social system was based on an age-old form of kinship cooperation called A) Ayllu.
B) Quipu. C) Mita.
D) None of the above 10) Mit’a was/were
A) Farming plots created with woven sticks
B) Irrigation canals and embankments between them C) Artificially-dug flat areas in mountainsides D) A government corvée system
11) Waru waru was/were
A) Farming plots created with woven sticks
B) Irrigation canals and embankments between them C) Artificially-dug flat areas in mountainsides D) A government corvée system
12) What was the main motive for the French to establish New France? A) Finding gold and spices
B) Building a fur trade C) Finding religious freedom
D) To establish a slave trading empire.
13) The Spanish conquistadors who took over Mexico and the Inca Empire were A) Cortes and Pizarro
B) Alhambra and Quixote C) De Las Casas and Sepulveda D) All of the above
14) Why did Europeans see Africans as a better source of labor than Native Americans? A) Africans had no experience in farming, so they wouldn't try to do things their own way.
B) Africans were strangers in the Americas, so they wouldn't have allies or places to hide, and it was cheap to import them.
C) Africans were already Christians, so they didn't have to be converted. D) Africans had complete immunity to all diseases, so they wouldn't die off. 15) Segres was crucial in the development of
A) The Portuguese exploration of West Africa B) Weaknesses in the Spanish empire
C) The Dutch trading post empire
D) The acquisition of the silver mines at Potosi
16) The Arabian state which defeated Portugal in the 1600s and built a Swahili empire of its own, with
A) Yemen B) Oman C) Sa’ads D) Mombasa
17) Government-sponsored banking and joint-stock companies led to A)The Portuguese exploration of West Africa
B) Weaknesses in the Spanish empire C) The Dutch trading post empire
D)The acquisition of the silver mines at Potosi 18) Cod fishing was crucial to exploration of
A) North Atlantic B) South Atlantic C) Siberia
D) The Indian Ocean
19) What was the motivation of the British colony known as Massachusetts Bay? A) Gold
B) Northwest Passage to the Pacific C) Religion
D) Damage to the Spanish
20) What made the West Indies (Caribbean) worth colonizing? A) Tobacco
B) Silver Mines C) Cotton D) Sugar
21) What were Spanish explorers and conquerors supposed to do before they conquered Native Americans?
A. Obtain permission from the local leaders to attack the people B. Attempt to convert locals to Christianity
C. Submit detailed plans for the invasion to local authorities D. Go on previous expeditions to gain experience
22) Which empire controlled Siberia by the late 1700s?
A) Qing Dynasty B) Ottoman Empire C) Safavid Empire D) Russian Empire
23) As part of the Columbian Exchange, which region brought livestock to a new location? A) Europe
B) Africa C) Asia D) America
24) As part of the Columbian Exchange, which region brought potatoes and maize to someplace new? A) Europe
B) Africa C) Asia D) America
25) What did ships transport on the "Middle Passage"? A) Coins and sugar
B) Enslaved Africans
C) Rum, trade goods, and currency D) Sugar and molasses
26) As part of the Columbian Exchange, which region brought manufactured goods to a new location? A) Europe
B) Africa C) Asia D) America
27) What environmental impacts did sugar plantations have? A) Deforestation and demineralization
B) Salinization and the spread of disease
C) Water management systems but flooding increases D) All of the above
28) Who bought guns and sold slaves in the Triangular Trade? A. Europe
B. Africa C. Asia D. America
29) Who bought slaves and sold sugar in the Triangular Trade from 1500-1700? A. Europe
B. Africa C. Asia D. America
30) Which of the following did NOT aid the Spanish in conquering the Aztecs? A) Disease
B) Larger forces C) Native enemies D) Superior weapons
31) What was one result of the loss of native lives to disease? A) The ruin of several tobacco and sugar cane plantations B) A growing tolerance between the colonists and the natives
C) The end of all battles between the colonists and natives over land D) A severe shortage of labor in the colonies
32) Land shortages led to what situation? A. End of indentured servitude in Caribbean
B. Territorial wars between French and British colonies C. Hydroponic agriculture
D. The Rise of the Machines…
33) How did slavery in African and Muslim societies differ from slavery in the Americas? A) People in African and Muslim societies could not escape their slavery.
B) Enslaved people in African and Muslim societies could not rise socially. C) Slavery in Africa was not hereditary, so children of slaves were free. D) The slavery in Africa and Muslim societies was based primarily on race. 34) What region saw women gain status as a result of the slave trade?
A. Europe B. Africa. C. Asia D. America
35) Rice and okra came to America from A. Europe
B. Africa C. Asia D. Trepikistan 36) Encomienda created
A) The viceroy system
B) The increased use of the mit’a system C) Increasing amounts of Amerindian slavery D) Increasing amounts of African slavery
37) The viceroy system was created by the passage of the A. Encomienda
B. New Laws C. Mita Laws D. Sharia
38) All of the following were common conditions on the slave ships traveling from Africa to the West
Indies EXCEPT
A) Frequent beatings B) Overcrowding C) 100% death rates D) Use of torture devices 39) A creole is a person who was
A) Born in Europe of European parents B) Born in America of European descent C) Descended from Europeans and Africans
D) Descended from Europeans and Native Americans
40) Governments trying to sell more than they buy, therefore raising tariffs and establishing colonies,
are motivated by which economic philosophy?
B. Liberalism C. Autarky D. Mercantilism
41) The best estimate of the total number of Africans enslaved in the Americas is A) 300,000 – 500,000
B) 5,000,000 – 6,000,000 C) 9.5-12 million
D) Over 1 billion
42) Racism probably was developed by Europeans in order to justify A. Forcing Christianity on American population
B. Warfare against the gunpowder empires C. Continued slavery of African descendants D. All of the above
43) All of the following were typical of sixteenth century absolute monarchy in Europe EXCEPT A. Justification through the idea of “divine right”
B. Working out arrangements with elected representatives of common people C. Building up large militaries
D. Creating bureaucracies to run government rather than counting on nobles
44) Piracy, revolt in the Netherlands, and the Thirty Years’ War were all attempts to attack A. Spain
B. France C. Great Britain D. Russia
45) Which of the following was NOT controlled by absolutist monarchs? A. Education systems
B. The military C. Religion D. The arts
46) What ruler built Versailles? A. Kaiser Wilhelm
B. Louis XIV C. Peter the Great D. Emperor Kangxi
47) Which ruler built St. Petersburg? A. Kaiser Wilhelm
B. Louis XIV C. Peter the Great D. Emperor Kangxi
