AP Modern World History Practice Quiz: Global Economic Development
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A) The desire of non-industrial regions to create their own finished goods.
B) A decline in the population of urban centers, which created a labor surplus for agriculture.
C) The need for raw materials for factories and food for growing urban populations.
D) A global surplus of finished goods that needed new markets.
Correct Answer: C
The text explicitly states, 'The need for raw materials for factories and increased food supplies for the growing population in urban centers led to the growth of export economies.'
A) Manufacturing complex finished goods for global trade.
B) Commercial extraction of natural resources and production of crops.
C) Developing advanced factory systems to compete with established urban centers.
D) Processing imported raw materials for domestic consumption.
Correct Answer: B
The passage states that these economies 'specialized in commercial extraction of natural resources and the production of food and industrial crops.'
A) They reinvested profits from raw materials into building their own factories.
B) They used profits from selling raw materials to purchase finished goods.
C) They traded finished goods for food supplies from urban centers.
D) They established a self-sufficient system independent of industrial nations.
Correct Answer: B
The text clearly indicates that 'The profits from these raw materials were used to purchase finished goods.' This describes the primary way they participated in the global market.
A) a universal focus on industrial manufacturing.
B) a division of labor where some regions supplied natural resources and others produced finished goods.
C) the economic decline of urban centers due to resource depletion.
D) the equal distribution of profits from the sale of both raw materials and finished goods.
Correct Answer: B
The 'environmental factors' refer to the location of natural resources. The text describes a system where some economies specialized in extracting these resources while others (implied) created finished goods, thus creating a global division of labor.
A) The expansion of commercial farming techniques.
B) The growth of populations in urban centers.
C) A series of crop failures in industrial regions.
D) The need to feed armies during global conflicts.
Correct Answer: B
The passage directly links the need for 'increased food supplies' to 'the growing population in urban centers.'
A) A country develops its own factories to process its iron ore into steel, which it then exports.
B) A region focuses on growing rubber and uses the income generated to import manufactured clothing and tools.
C) A nation with a large urban population develops advanced agricultural methods to become self-sufficient in food.
D) Two industrialized nations trade finished goods with each other, such as automobiles for electronics.
Correct Answer: B
This scenario perfectly matches the model described: an export economy specializes in a raw material/industrial crop (rubber) and uses the profits to purchase finished goods (clothing and tools).
A) decline of international trade in favor of local production.
B) growth of economies that specialized in producing and exporting raw materials.
C) shift of populations from urban centers back to rural agricultural areas.
D) even distribution of factory production across different regions of the world.
Correct Answer: B
The core argument of the text is that the need for raw materials and food led to the 'growth of export economies around the world that specialized in commercial extraction of natural resources and the production of food and industrial crops.'