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AP Modern World History Units 1-4
Review Questions and Correct Answers/
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Champa Rice
Ans: Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing
season. It was later sent to China as a tribute gift.
Proto-industrialization
Ans: a set of economic changes in which people in rural areas made
more goods than they could sell in East Asia
artisan
Ans: A skilled crafts person
Scholar-gentry
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Ans: in China, a group of people who controlled much of the land and
produced most of the candidates for civil service
Filial Piety
Ans: In Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and
respect for one's parents and ancestors.
Grand Canal
Ans: The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the
Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the
Sui Empire.
Song Dynasty
Ans: During this Chinese dynasty (960 - 1279 AD) China saw many
important inventions. There was a magnetic compass; had a navy; traded
with India and Persia (brought pepper and cotton); paper money, gun
powder; landscape black and white paintings
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Imperial Bureaucracy
Ans: Division of an empire into organized provinces to make it easier to
control
Meritocracy
Ans: government or the holding of power by people selected on the
basis of their ability.
woodblock printing
Ans: a type of printing in which text is carved into a block of wood and
the block is then coated with ink and pressed on the page
Foot Binding
Ans: 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.
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Buddhism
Ans: Belief system that started in India in the 500s BC. Happiness can be
achieved through removal of one's desires. Believers seek enlightenment
and the overcoming of suffering.
Theravada Buddhism
Ans: the oldest of the two major branches of Buddhism. Practiced mainly
in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia, its beliefs are relatively
conservative, holding close to the original teachings of the Buddha
Mahayana Buddhism
Ans: "Great Vehicle" branch of Buddhism followed in China, Japan, and
Central Asia. The focus is on reverence for Buddha and for Bodhisattva,
enlightened persons who have postponed nirvana to help others attain
enlightenment.
Tibetan Buddhism
AP Modern World History Units 1-4
Review Questions and Correct Answers/
Latest Update / Already Graded
Champa Rice
Ans: Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing
season. It was later sent to China as a tribute gift.
Proto-industrialization
Ans: a set of economic changes in which people in rural areas made
more goods than they could sell in East Asia
artisan
Ans: A skilled crafts person
Scholar-gentry
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Ans: in China, a group of people who controlled much of the land and
produced most of the candidates for civil service
Filial Piety
Ans: In Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and
respect for one's parents and ancestors.
Grand Canal
Ans: The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the
Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the
Sui Empire.
Song Dynasty
Ans: During this Chinese dynasty (960 - 1279 AD) China saw many
important inventions. There was a magnetic compass; had a navy; traded
with India and Persia (brought pepper and cotton); paper money, gun
powder; landscape black and white paintings
,3 | Page
Imperial Bureaucracy
Ans: Division of an empire into organized provinces to make it easier to
control
Meritocracy
Ans: government or the holding of power by people selected on the
basis of their ability.
woodblock printing
Ans: a type of printing in which text is carved into a block of wood and
the block is then coated with ink and pressed on the page
Foot Binding
Ans: 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.
, 4 | Page
Buddhism
Ans: Belief system that started in India in the 500s BC. Happiness can be
achieved through removal of one's desires. Believers seek enlightenment
and the overcoming of suffering.
Theravada Buddhism
Ans: the oldest of the two major branches of Buddhism. Practiced mainly
in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia, its beliefs are relatively
conservative, holding close to the original teachings of the Buddha
Mahayana Buddhism
Ans: "Great Vehicle" branch of Buddhism followed in China, Japan, and
Central Asia. The focus is on reverence for Buddha and for Bodhisattva,
enlightened persons who have postponed nirvana to help others attain
enlightenment.
Tibetan Buddhism
