AP World History Unit 2 Practice Test: Networks of Exchange

Topic 2.1 · Concept check

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

Topic 2.1 · Apply it

Which innovation most directly reduced the risks of overland travel for Silk Road merchants?

Topic 2.1 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): In Tang and Song China, a merchant could deposit money in one city and receive a certificate, known as 'flying cash', that could be exchanged for coins in another city. The Song state later issued official paper money.

The financial practices described in the source most directly

Topic 2.2 · Concept check

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

Topic 2.2 · Apply it

Which is the best example of exchange that the Mongol Empire made possible?

Topic 2.2 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): In Persia, the Mongol rulers of the Ilkhanate converted to Islam and relied on Persian officials to run the government. In China, the Mongol Yuan dynasty kept much of the existing bureaucracy but placed Mongols and other foreigners in the top posts and did not hold the civil service exams for several decades.

The source best supports which claim about Mongol rule?

Topic 2.3 · Concept check

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

Topic 2.3 · Apply it

The Swahili city-states of East Africa, such as Kilwa and Mombasa, are best known for

Topic 2.3 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming admiral Zheng He led seven voyages with large fleets of treasure ships across the Indian Ocean. The fleets visited ports in Southeast Asia, India, Arabia and East Africa, and local rulers were invited to send tribute and envoys to the Ming emperor.

The main purpose of the voyages described in the source was to

Topic 2.4 · Concept check

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

Topic 2.4 · Apply it

The Mali Empire grew wealthy in the 1300s mainly because it

Topic 2.5 · Data analysis

Source (written for this practice test): Ibn Battuta, a Muslim scholar from Morocco, travelled about 75,000 miles between 1325 and 1354, through North and West Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and China. In several places, including the Maldives and the Delhi Sultanate, local rulers employed him as a judge under Islamic law.

Ibn Battuta's ability to find work as a judge in such distant places best illustrates

Topic 2.5 · Concept check

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

Topic 2.6 · Apply it

What was the most important link between trade networks and the bubonic plague of the 1300s?

Topic 2.6 · Apply it

The spread of bananas to East Africa and of Champa rice to China are both examples of

Topic 2.7 · Apply it

Which statement best compares trade on the Indian Ocean with trade on the Silk Roads between about 1200 and 1450?