Take this Quiz: AP World History — the world from 1200 to 1450 | Zestly

Question 1

Song China recruited its officials through written examinations on the Confucian classics. What was the main effect of that system on who held political power?

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Power shifted away from hereditary landholders towards a scholar-gentry defined by examination success

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Office was reserved for merchant families, on the reasoning that commercial success proved competence

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Central government withdrew from the provinces, leaving authority with village councils

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Provincial administration passed to the hereditary aristocracy, whose titles now carried office with them

Question 2

Between 1200 and 1450, Islam and Islamic learning spread widely into South Asia, Southeast Asia and West Africa — regions no Muslim army conquered. What chiefly carried them?

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Merchants settling in trading ports, and Sufi teachers whose practice accommodated local custom

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Rulers of those regions requiring conversion of their subjects before any trade was permitted

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The displacement of existing scholarly institutions by newly founded ones on the same sites

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A single caliphate directing missionary policy from one capital across the whole Muslim world

Question 3

How did rulers of the Khmer state in mainland Southeast Asia principally establish their right to rule in this period?

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Through an identification of the king with divine power, made visible in vast temple complexes and the waterworks around them

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Through written examinations on a classical canon, on the model then used in China

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Through election by assemblies of village heads, whose consent could be withdrawn

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Through alliances among nomadic pastoral clans, with no permanent capital or administration

Question 4

Historians describe Mongol rule across Eurasia as double-edged. Which statement captures that assessment most accurately?

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Trade across Eurasia contracted, because the conquests closed the overland routes to foreign merchants

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Ideas and religions travelled freely, but commerce was neglected as beneath the attention of a warrior state

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Cities across the Silk Roads were destroyed and none recovered, ending long-distance overland trade

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The conquests killed on a vast scale and levelled cities, and the single authority that followed made long-distance travel safer and cheaper than before

Question 5

Overland trade across Eurasia expanded considerably in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Which development did most to make that possible?

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Ocean-going navigation techniques, newly adapted to crossing deserts by the stars

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The abolition of tolls and duties on merchants along the whole length of the routes

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Caravanserai spaced along the routes, together with credit instruments and paper money that spared merchants from carrying bullion

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The replacement of pack animals by wheeled transport across the arid interior