Topic 6 AP Exam Practice
Multiple-Choice Questions
Questions 1 to 3 refer to the passages below.
“This small Christian clan stranded in a tiny corner of the earth, surrounded by half-savage Mohammedan tribes and by soldiers, considers itself highly advanced, acknowledges none but Cossacks as human beings, and despises everybody else. The Cossack spends most of his time in the cordon [i.e., frontier fort], in [military] action, or in hunting and fishing.”
Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852, published in 1863
“That night he stayed at home and dreamed, of the [American] West. His memory, coupled with what he had heard and idealized by his imagination, conjured dim visions of what he had once known and forgotten; of a land where men and conditions harked back to the raw foundations of civilization.”
B. M. Bower, The Lure of the Dim Trails, 1907
1. One similarity between Cossacks and American cowboys was that both
- (A) lived on the frontier of an expanding country
- (B) were criminals forced into exile by their government
- (C) often formed alliances with the native inhabitants of their region
- (D) represented the spread of urban society
2. Why would Tsar Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) use Cossacks to expand the Russian empire into Siberia?
- (A) They lived in a harsh climate and could withstand the Siberian winters.
- (B) They lived near Muslims and therefore could negotiate with Siberian Muslims.
- (C) They had a tradition of being fierce warriors.
- (D) They were Ukrainian and would defend Ivan from rebellions by Siberian Russians.
3. The conflict between the Cossacks and Catherine the Great known as the Pugachev Rebellion was most similar to
- (A) the Mongol conquests because it was a fight over control of wealth
- (B) the English Civil War because it was a fight between a monarch and a legislature
- (C) the Thirty Years’ War because it was a fight dominated by religious beliefs
- (D) the conflicts in Japan during the Heian period in which feudal lords controlled the lives of the serfs SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION 1. Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows. “The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was one of the most significant events in New Mexico history. But 1680 was not the first time New Mexico’s Pueblos had attempted to rebel against the Spanish government. Beginning with the Acoma Revolt of 1599, Spanish intolerance of Pueblo religious practices and a persistent abuse of Pueblo labor had prompted several revolts against the Spanish in the seventeenth century. These uprisings, however, were discovered and ruthlessly crushed before they could grow into broader action. . . . The Spanish remained at El Paso until 1692. For a while it appeared that the revolt had indeed succeeded. Popay and the other Pueblo leaders began a systematic eradication of all signs of Christianity and Spanish material culture. Everyone was to bathe in a ritual which washed away any trace of baptism, and Christian marriages were invalidated until reconfirmed by native tradition. . . . But it was easier to order the eradication of all vestiges of the Spanish presence than to accomplish it. Many items of material culture which had been introduced by the Spanish—iron tools, sheep, cattle, and fruit trees, for example—had become an integral part of Pueblo life. A few individuals, deeply influenced by the teachings of the Franciscans, rescued and hid the sacred objects of their adopted religion to await the eventual return of the Spanish friars.” Robert Torrez, Former New Mexico State Historian (A) Compare Torrez’s view of the long-term impact of Spanish rule in New Mexico with the long-term impact of Metacom’s War. (B) Explain ONE way in which the Pueblo Revolts were similar to the battles between the Marathas and the Mughals. (C) Explain ONE way in which the Pueblo Revolts differed from the Cossack Revolts. 2. Answer all parts of the question that follows. (A) Describe ONE example of how social structures affected a state’s ability to maintain order in settlements in the period c. 1450–c. 1750. (B) Describe ONE example of how economic structures affected a state’s ability to maintain order in settlements in the period c. 1450–c. 1750. (C) Explain ONE historical situation in the period 1450–1750 in which state power was challenged by internal pressures.