550 WHAP questions by Princeton Review (2013) - Diagnostic Test

All of the following ancient civilizations developed near river valleys EXCEPT

The two major religions practiced in Classical India were

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of early civilizations?

The location and architecture of buildings in major Mayan cities such as Palenque are most likely based on

The Silk Roads, the largest trade network of the ancient world, were controlled by

Which of the following is an accurate characterization of trade along the overland route between the Roman Empire and India through the first two centuries C.E.? (first: from Roman Empire, second: from India) A:

The Hebrews were unique in ancient civilization for their

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the ancient Greeks?

Source: Encyclopedie: Classical Orders, engraving from the Encyclopédie vol. 18. Public domain eighteenth century French engraving. The columns illustrated are architectural contributions from which civilization?

Ashoka Maurya is responsible for which religion's expansion beyond India and into many parts of Southeast Asia?

Which of the following is an important contribution of the Lydians?

Emperor Justinian of Byzantium preserved Roman customs in which of the following ways?

Which of the following contributed significantly to the decline of both the Han and Gupta empires?

Which of the following was NOT a major effect of movement along the Silk Road?

Along the trade routes of the post-classical period spread

All of the following were contributions from cultures Muslim invaders absorbed from civilization they were in contact with EXCEPT (first: the civilization; second: their contribution)

Which of the following is not one of the Five Pillars of Islam?

The Islamic ummah was

The image of the Alhambra in Andalusia, Spain shows the influence of which widespread religion?

Which of the following is true about the declining role of women in the Islamic Abbasid era?

The map shows which seventh century empire's extent?

Which of the following is an example of how Muslim culture influenced Western Europe in the era of the Crusades?

Orthodox Christianity split form Roman Catholicism in 1054 C.E. in part due to the former's

Alhambra's Court of the Lions The fourteenth century palace in Spain shown above is an example of

Which of the following correctly chronicles the regions to which Islam spread from the Arabian Peninsula?

Which of the following most accurately describes the development of Incan political structure from the 12th to 15th centuries C.E.?

The Ming Dynasty adopted which of the following belief systems for which of the following reasons?

Which of the following correctly compares the Muscovite Russians and Ottoman Turks?

Epidemics in sixteenth-century Mesoamerica led to

From 1600 to 1700, sugar was

Northern Europe's population increased in the 16th and 17th centuries in part thanks to the

Which of the following statements about the Songhai in the sixteenth century is accurate?

Babur led his Mughal army to conquer India chiefly in order to

The building shown above is an example of

The shaded area on the map above shows the extent of which of the following empires in the fifteenth century?

The "Columbian Exchange" brought

The expansion of global trade in the 16th and 17th centuries contributed to China's becoming a major holder of the world's silver because

The Weaver of Designs "She concerns herself with using thread, works with thread. The good weaver of designs is skilled==a marker of varicolored capes, an outliner of designs, a blender of colors, a joiner of pieces, a matcher of pieces, a person of good memory. She does things dexterously. She weaves designs. She selects. She weaves tightly. She forms borders. She forms the neck..." Source: Bernadino de Sahagun, La Historia Universal de las Cosas de Nueva España The above sixteenth-century quote form Spaniard Bernardino de Sahagún refers to a woman from which civilization?

Careful, careful where are you going: You group of know-nothings! Come here and let your older sister teach you to write poems. Young bees whose stringers itch rub them in wilted flowers. Young goats who have nothing to do with their horns butt them against spare shrubbery. The eighteenth-century poem was written by a women of which region?

Which of the following statements about slavery in the pre-modern world is NOT accurate?

The European maritime activity at the end of the fifteenth century led to all of the following EXCEPT

North American European colonies differed from Latin American colonies in that

How was the process of industrialization similar in Russia and Japan?

Which of the following was a characteristic regarding gender roles in the early days of the Industrial Revolution?

Which of the following did most industrializing countries quickly develop?

Japan's industrialization process was initially limited by which of the following?

All of the following were contributing factors to Great Britain's Industrial Revolution EXCEPT

Which of the following is true about Egypt's industrialization process in the early nineteenth century?

How were immigration patterns of the nineteenth century to Hawaii similar to those to Latin America in the seventeenth century?

Which of the following is NOT true about population patterns in the nineteenth century?

Why were the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century fought?

Which of the following is true about the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?

Which of the following countries most resisted European intervention in the early nineteenth century?

Great Britain's first Industrial Revolution was fueled primarily by

Latin American wars of independence in the early nineteenth century had which of the following results?

"Take up the White Man's burden== Send forth the best ye breed== Go send your sons to exile To serve your captives' need To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild== Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child" Source: Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899. The quotation above by a late nineteenth-century British author illustrates

Dissatisfaction over the agreements ending the First World War led to all of the following EXCEPT

Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward in 1958 was primarily intended to

Industrialization and rural exodus in Latin America in the twentieth century drove the trend of

Massive labor migrations to economically developed countries in the twentieth century occurred primarily because of

"Concerned that in situations of poverty women have the least access to food, health, education, training and opportunities for employment and other needs... Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women...The same conditions for career and vocational guidance, for access to studies and for the achievement of diplomas in educational establishments of all categories in rural as well as in urban areas; this equality shall be ensured in pre-school, general, technical, professional and training.... The elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels and in all forms of education by encouraging coeducation and other types of education which will help to achieve this aim and, in particular, by the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaptation of teaching methods..." Which of the following most likely produced the twentieth-century document quoted here?

Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Aung San Suu Kyi each drew their political philosophy and protest tactics in part from the work of

The European Union was founded primarily in order

All of the following countries experienced social unrest and student protest movements in the 1960s similar to those in the United States EXCEPT

In late-twentieth century sub-Saharan Africa, political stability often failed in part because

Which of the following correctly lists three leaders who rose in opposition to colonial rule of their home countries?

Which of the following statements correctly describes global affairs at the dawn of the twenty-first century?

In the twentieth century, the phrase "mutually assured destruction" most accurately referred to

The image reflects

During the Cold War, Latin America was primarily