AP World History Practice Exam: Full-Length Multiple Choice

Topic 1.1 · Concept check

Candidates for government posts in Song China (960–1279) had to pass civil service examinations based mainly on which body of writing?

Topic 1.2 · Concept check

As the Abbasid Caliphate weakened, which groups founded important new Muslim states between about 1000 and 1450?

Topic 1.3 · Concept check

The Bhakti movement in South Asia emphasised

Topic 1.4 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): The Inca state required each community to provide a set number of days of labour each year: building and repairing roads and terraces, working state lands, filling storehouses and serving in the army. Officials kept records of these duties on knotted cords called quipu.

The labour system described in the source most directly helped the Inca state to

Topic 1.6 · Concept check

In Western Europe between about 1200 and 1450, political power was best described as

Topic 2.1 · Concept check

Between about 1200 and 1450, which goods made up most of the trade on the overland Silk Roads?

Topic 2.2 · Concept check

How did the Mongol Empire most affect trade across Eurasia in the 1200s and 1300s?

Topic 2.3 · Concept check

Which knowledge was most important for sailors trading across the Indian Ocean?

Topic 2.4 · Concept check

Which innovation did most to expand trade across the Sahara Desert?

Topic 2.5 · Concept check

Which technologies spread westward from China along trade routes in this period?

Topic 3.1 · Concept check

What most helped the Ottomans capture Constantinople in 1453?

Topic 3.1 · Concept check

The Qing dynasty, which took power in China in 1644, was founded by

Topic 3.1 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): In 1526, Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, defeated the much larger army of the Delhi Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat. Babur's forces combined cavalry with field cannons and matchlock muskets.

The source best supports which claim about how land-based empires expanded between 1450 and 1750?

Topic 3.2 · Concept check

In the Mughal Empire, zamindars were

Topic 3.2 · Apply it

Under the Ottoman system of tax farming,

Topic 3.3 · Concept check

The long conflict between the Ottoman and Safavid empires was made worse by

Topic 3.3 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): In 1517, the German monk Martin Luther criticised the Catholic Church's sale of indulgences and argued that people were saved through faith alone, not through good works. With the help of the printing press, his ideas spread quickly across Europe.

Which was a long-term effect of the movement that Luther started?

Topic 3.4 · Apply it

Which statement best compares the Ottoman Empire and the Qing dynasty between 1450 and 1750?

Topic 4.1 · Concept check

Which ship design helped Portuguese sailors explore the west coast of Africa and sail into the open Atlantic in the 1400s?

Topic 4.2 · Concept check

Why did Portugal sponsor voyages along the coast of Africa in the 1400s?

Topic 4.3 · Concept check

What was the main cause of the steep decline in the Indigenous population of the Americas after 1492?

Topic 4.4 · Concept check

The Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan fell in 1521 to

Topic 4.5 · Concept check

How did the Spanish obtain labour for the silver mines at Potosí in the Andes?

Topic 4.6 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): In 1680, Pueblo communities in what is now New Mexico, led by a religious leader named Popé, rose against Spanish rule. They drove the Spanish out of Santa Fe, destroyed many churches and returned to their own religious practices. The Spanish did not regain control for twelve years.

The event described in the source is the best example of

Topic 4.7 · Concept check

In the casta system of colonial Spanish America, which group held the highest status?

Topic 4.8 · Apply it

Which statement best describes a continuity in Indian Ocean trade between 1450 and 1750?

Topic 5.1 · Concept check

Which idea is most closely associated with the Enlightenment thinker John Locke?

Topic 5.2 · Concept check

The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was unique among the revolutions of this period because it

Topic 5.2 · Apply it

The unification of Germany in 1871 under the leadership of Prussia's Otto von Bismarck best illustrates

Topic 5.3 · Concept check

Which industry was the first to be transformed by machines and factories in Britain?

Topic 5.6 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): After 1868, Japan's new Meiji government sent officials to Europe and the United States to study their industries and governments. It built railways, telegraph lines and state-owned factories, and later sold many of the factories to private businesses.

The source best supports which claim about industrialisation in Japan?

Topic 5.7 · Concept check

In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith argued for

Topic 5.8 · Apply it

In the 1800s, industrial workers formed labour unions mainly to

Topic 6.1 · Concept check

Which idea did supporters of imperialism use in the late 1800s to claim that some peoples were naturally superior to others?

Topic 6.2 · Concept check

At the Berlin Conference of 1884–85,

Topic 6.3 · Concept check

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began among

Topic 6.4 · Apply it

In the late 1800s, many economies in Latin America, Africa and South Asia

Topic 6.5 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): By the early 1900s, British investors owned much of Argentina's railway network, and U.S. companies such as the United Fruit Company controlled large banana plantations and the railways and ports that served them in parts of Central America. These countries remained formally independent.

The situation described in the source is the best example of

Topic 6.6 · Apply it

The Irish Potato Famine (1845–1852) is an example of

Topic 6.7 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): In 1882, the U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned most Chinese labourers from entering the United States. In the following decades, Australia also passed laws that restricted immigration from Asia.

The laws described in the source best illustrate

Topic 7.1 · Concept check

Which group of empires collapsed between 1911 and 1922?

Topic 7.2 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo. Within six weeks, most of the great powers of Europe were at war.

Which best explains why the event described in the source led to a much wider war?

Topic 7.4 · Concept check

The Great Depression began with

Topic 7.5 · Apply it

After the First World War, former Ottoman territories such as Syria and Iraq became

Topic 7.7 · Concept check

Which best describes how the Second World War was fought?

Topic 8.1 · Apply it

Which development after 1945 set the stage for both the Cold War and decolonisation?

Topic 8.2 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): In 1947, U.S. President Harry Truman asked Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey. He said the United States should support free peoples who were resisting attempts by armed minorities or outside pressure to take over their countries.

The policy described in the source is best known as

Topic 8.4 · Concept check

In 1949, communist forces led by Mao Zedong

Topic 8.5 · Apply it

Algeria won independence from France in 1962 mainly through

Topic 8.7 · Concept check

Which is an example of nonviolent resistance to established power after 1900?

Topic 9.1 · Concept check

Which technologies most reduced the time needed to communicate across the world after 1900?

Topic 9.2 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): HIV/AIDS was first identified in the early 1980s and spread around the world. By 2000, the large majority of people living with HIV were in sub-Saharan Africa, where many could not afford the new drugs that were extending lives in wealthier countries.

The source best illustrates which development after 1900?

Topic 9.4 · Concept check

After 1978, Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in China

Topic 9.5 · Apply it

Which was a result of movements for women's rights after 1900?

Topic 9.7 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): In 1999, tens of thousands of people protested in Seattle during a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Protesters included trade unionists worried about jobs moving abroad, environmental groups and campaigners against poverty in developing countries.

The protests described in the source best illustrate