AP WORLD HISTORY MODERN EXAM 2023 / 2024
GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved)
- Islam
Answer: A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed expanded
throughout the Middle East and ruled by a caliph.
- Abbasid Dynasty
Answer: From 750-1258 this was the 3rd dynasty of the Islamic Caliphate. They
built their capital in Baghdad after overthrowing the Umayyad caliphate.
- Middle Ages
Answer: Also known as the medieval period, the time between the collapse of the
Roman Empire in the fifth century AD and the beginning of the Renaissance in the fourteenth century.
- Feudalism
Answer: A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land
- Nobles
Answer: people from rich and powerful families
- Serfs/Peasants
Answer: Workers who were tied to the land on which they lived
- Three-field system
Answer: A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain, one
grows legumes, and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
- Code of chivalry
Answer: a code of behavior that governed the aspect of all knights behavior
- Burghers
Answer: Merchant class town dwellers
- Bubonic Plague
Answer: disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It
killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats, fleas. 1 / 3
- Song Dynasty
Answer: (960-1279 CE) The Chinese dynasty that placed much more emphasis on
civil administration, industry, education, and arts other than military.
- Yuan Dynasty
Answer: (1279-1368 CE) The dynasty with Mongol rule in China; centralized with
bureaucracy but structure is different: Mongols on top->Persian bureau- crats- >Chinese bureuacrats.
- Ming Dynasty
Answer: Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China.
- Foot binding
Answer: Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household.
- Code of bushido
Answer: "The Way of the Warrior". Samurai Code of Conduct: Loyalty, Bravery, Honor. Those who broke the Code had to commit ritual suicide called Seppuku.
- Delhi Sultanate
Answer: (1206-1526 CE) The successors of Mahmud of Ghazni mount- ed more
campaigns, but directed their goals to creating this empire.
- Angor Wat
Answer: Huge temple complex the Khmer built in the 1100s located in Cambodia.
- Indian Ocean Trade
Answer: world's richest maritime trading network that was essential for the prosperity of East Africa
- Silk Road
Answer: An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea extending some 6,440 km (4,000 mi) and linking China with the Roman Empire. Marco Polo followed the route on his journey to Cathay.
- Bahgdad
Answer: The capital of the Muslim world during the regions intellectual, eco-
nomic, and political height 2 / 3
- Mongols
Answer: A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang
Empire, living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia.
- Ottoman turks
Answer: Turkish group ruled by the Ottoman dynasty; formed an empire that lasted from about 1300 to 1922. The group that proved to be the greatest threat to the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century.
- Genghis khan
Answer: Founder of the Mongol Empire.
- Mongol empire
Answer: an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe.
- Kublai Khan
Answer: (1215-1294) Grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Mongol Yuan
Dynasty in China.
- Tamerlane
Answer: He is very much like Ghengis Khan; a military leader who conquered the
lands of Persia; his empire was decentralized with tribal leaders.
- Mansa Musa
Answer: Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage
to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East.
- Great Zimbabwe
Answer: City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose
many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
- Tenochtitlan
Answer: Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its
population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
- Cahokia
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Answer: an ancient settlement of southern Indians, located near present day St.