24 i STEP 2. Determine Your Test Readiness
- Before the European Renaissance, most phi-
losophies in Europe and Asia
(A) were spread through the printing press
(B) were spread through conquest
(C) relied on religious faith
(D) involved the social contract - By 1500, Islam had extended to all of the fol-
lowing areas of Africa EXCEPT
(A) East Africa along the Indian Ocean
(B) West Africa
(C) Central Africa along the Atlantic Ocean
(D) North Africa along the Mediterranean Sea - Which of the following is true of the bubonic
plague?
(A) It followed established trade routes.
(B) It affected West Africa.
(C) It began in Europe and spread to China.
(D) It died out completely after the fourteenth
century. - Which major language family arose as a result
of migrations beginning in central Asia and
spreading westward?
(A) Indo-European
(B) Romance
(C) Sino-Tibetan
(D) Semitic - The Mongols
(A) were capable administrators
(B) persecuted Christians and Muslims within
territories they conquered
(C) were interested only in Asian territories
(D) moved main trade routes farther north - Migration forged contacts between all of the
following peoples EXCEPT
(A) Bantu peoples and cattle herders of sub-
Saharan Africa
(B) Aryans and Mongols
(C) Germanic peoples and Romans
(D) Hittites and Assyrians
50. A thirteenth-century traveler described the city
he was visiting as one with numerous craft
guilds and wealthy merchants. Its people used
paper money and the city showed signs of
highly effi cient administration. The traveler was
describing a city in
(A) India
(B) Persia
(C) England
(D) China
51. As a result of African long-distance trade pat-
terns in the period 1450 to 1750,
(A) Islam and Christianity increased their infl u-
ence over sub-Saharan Africa
(B) eastern African city-states came under
Spanish domination
(C) central Africa remained under the rule of
stateless societies
(D) indigenous African religions declined in
popularity
52. In the period between 1500 and 1800, Euro-
pean exploration accomplished all of the fol-
lowing EXCEPT
(A) charting of eastern Australia
(B) study of the geography of the Pacifi c Ocean
(C) discovery of the northwest passage through
North America
(D) study of Pacifi c societies
53. Which of the following is true regarding a com-
parison of trade between Spain and the Nether-
lands between 1450 and 1750?
(A) The Dutch concentrated on the Indonesian
spice trade.
(B) The Dutch were more concerned than the
Spanish with spreading Christianity.
(C) Trade made Spain the wealthiest state in
Europe in the seventeenth century.
(D) The Dutch were more interested in chang-
ing native societies than the Spanish were.
54. By the eighteenth century, the basis of Euro-
pean diplomacy was
(A) the establishment of empire
(B) absolutism
(C) the balance of power
(D) the limitation of standing armies