Social / Interaction with the Environment
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Cultural
Economics
MCQ & SAQ Strategies
100

This painful practice implemented on women is evidence of the Song Dynasty's patriarchal society.

What is foot binding?

100

Both the Inca and Aztec kings were closely affiliated with a god that represented this essential aspect of nature.

What is the sun?

100

One of the five pillars of Islam, this practice requires Muslims to travel to Mecca at least once during their lifetime.

What is the hajj?

100
This luxury item was China's main export.

What is silk?

100
This strategy is the best way to select the correct answer to MCQ questions.

What is to eliminate wrong answers first?

200

This term refers to the community, or united nation of the followers of Islam, c. 1200-1450.

What is Dar al-Islam?

200

China's process of hiring employees to serve in their bureaucracy was called the _________ system.

What is merit?

200

This religion originated in India but spread to East Asia through trade routes, where it is mainly practiced today.

What is Buddhism?

200

This 300-year event allowed merchants to reconnect with trade routes and begin importing luxury items into Europe.

What are the Crusades?

200

These are the three components of ACE, which is used to structure your written responses to SAQs.

What is answer, cite/content, and explain?

300

Egalitarian is a good term to describe the society of which American civilization that existed before 1450?

Who are the Pueblo?

300
These rulers of Dar al-Islam were both political and religious leaders. (name their title)

What are caliphs?

300

________ (two words) is the Confucian virtue and cultural expectation of a child's dutiful respect, obedience, and care for their parents and other elders in the family. It can be extended to include loyalty to the state and its leaders. 

What is filial piety?

300

This system was set up to give European villages all of the resources they needed to survive, without the need for trade.

What is the manor system?

300

Once you have narrowed down the options to two answers, the best MCQ strategy is to select the answer that best aligns with the ________.

What is the stimulus?
400

This environmental phenomenon aided in destroying the social system of medieval Europe.

What is the plague / Black Death?

400

China built win-win relationships with nearby civilizations such as Korea and Vietnam through which political system?

What is the tribute system?
400

This is the name for the period when the Muslim world experienced significant intellectual, cultural, economic, and scientific flourishing, acting as a bridge for knowledge between ancient Greece, India, and China, and Europe's Dark Ages.

What is the Golden Age of Islam?

400

China first obtained this food staple through trade with Vietnam.

What is champa rice?

400

True or False: SAQ responses should be split into three separate answers, labeled A. B. and C.

True

500

Muslim merchants on the trade routes in North Africa invented a saddle for this animal, called the "ship of the desert".

What is a camel?

500

The feudal system in Middle Ages Europe was based on ________ and loyalty.

What is land?

500

The Catholic Church held political power over the kings of Europe through their power of ___________.

What is excommunication?

500

This is the name for the trade route within Dar al-Islam that connected the Arabian Peninsula with West Africa.

What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Route?

500

This is the amount of time you have per question on the MCQ section of the actual AP Test.

What is one minute?