Drill 2 · Multiple Choice · Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
AP World History Unit 1 Drill 2 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 1: The Global Tapestry. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This drill focuses on developments in Dar al-Islam from c. 1200 to c. 1450, including the spread of Islam, the role of scholars and merchants, and the Swahili Coast trading world. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.
Adapted from the account of a Muslim scholar-traveler journeying through the East African coast, c. 1330 CE.
"I arrived at the town of Kilwa, one of the most beautiful and well-constructed towns in the world. The sultan is a man of great piety who gives generously to scholars and to the poor. His court is attended by learned men who have traveled from as far as Persia and the Hejaz. The people of this coast speak a tongue that borrows much from Arabic, and they wear fine cotton garments imported from India. Though situated far from the heartlands of Islam, they have embraced the faith with great devotion, due in no small part to the merchants who have settled here and the holy men who have come to teach. The markets are remarkable: ivory and gold from the interior are exchanged for cloth and porcelain from across the ocean."