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the tests for hewett ch, 14 and 13 and 12 and 11
Question | Answer |
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During the 17th and 18th centuries which region of the world accounted for a rising share in the world's supply of silver? | The Americas |
during the 17th and 18th centuries the average life expectancy of a slave brought from africa to work on sugar plantaions in the carribean was | 3 years |
during the 17th and 18th centuries the largest group of immigrants that came to the americas came from | Africa |
In Africa, the Atlantic slave trade helped to shift wealth from rural dewllers to | urban merchants |
The Safavid Empire collapsed in the 18th century primarily due to | constant warfare with Afghan fighters |
Ottoman efforts to deal with inflationary problems in the 17th century were known as | the Koprulu reforms |
The main wealth of the Mughal dynasty was | Land rents |
During the 17th century rising levels of global commerce increased prosperity in the Ming and Mughal dynasties but it also led to | a splintering of central control |
The "dashing prince" rebel leader who captured Bejing from the Ming was | Li Zicheng |
the northern neighbors who took advantage of the collapse of Ming auhority in the 17th century and established their own Qing Dynasty in China were the | Manchus |
The "Canton System" | only allowed European Merchants to trade in the port of Canton in China |
Russian expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries primaily concentrated in which area? | Siberia |
The Romanovs did what to the peaseants duting the 17th century? | They made the peaseants serfs, taking away their liberty over their lives and economic activities |
the Thirth Years' War did NOT | signal the rise of Russia ad a great European power |
The European nation that pioneered commercial practices that helped to integrate the Atlantic economy during the 17th century was | the Netherlands |
The enclosure of common lands in the English countryside during the 17th century resulted in | the commercialization of agriculture |
The model of "abso;ute" rule in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries was the | French Dynastic monarchy |
English Monarchs did not establish an absolutist regime in part because | they could not taise tax funds without the consent of Parliment |
True or False: (1) European Merchants formed alliances with African commercial and political networks in order to obtain slaves from Africans | True(1) |
True or False: (2) IN the Franch absolutism of Louis XIV, the king gained tyrannical authority, able to follow any policy he wished, even outside of the law. | False(2) |
True or False: (3) After 1715, mercantiist wars were mainlyy conducted outside of Europe as empires fueded over coloniam possessions | True(3) |
Around 1500 the world's most flourising cultures were in | Asia |
the Ottoman Empire allowed authorized religious mimnority communities to do all of the following except: | seek to convert neighbors to their religions |
describe kanun, or Ottoman admistrative law | It was a comprehensive and well understood set of laws that bridged differences among the many different social and legal systems that had come under ottoman rule |
The Mughal dynasty in India proved willing to adopt what aspect of European science and technology? | guns and cannons |
Traditionally Islamic societies had looked to _________ for external expansion | CHina and India |
What kinds of books saw the largest demand in CHina during the 17th and 18th centuries? | study aids for the civil service exams |
Chinese cartography in the 16th and 17th centuries was NOT characterized by | the chinese lacking the scientific tequniches to produce technically accurate maps |
WHat new groups in Europe began to paricipate in the production and consumption of the arts and sciences in the 18th century? | the commercial classes |
in the 18th century Europe, the policies of religious toleration resulted in | a loosening of religious uniformity |
Enlightened thinkers did not agree that | faith in the Roman Catholic Church would promote good |
in the West African kingdoms of the 16th centuries arts and crafts were not | a major export that influenced developing art in Europe |
The Native Americans | did not avoid sexual relations with Europeans |
Vodun and santer'a are examples of | African-American syncretic religions |
Peninsulars reffers to | European-born residents of Spanish and Portuguese American colonies |
Creoles in Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas were drawn to Enlightenment ideas because | Enlightenment Ideas heloed to justify tehir resentments against colonial elites and colonial government |
True or False: (4) The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Dynasties unified by their islamic faith developed similar forms of Muslim culture | False (4) |
True or False: (5) Scholars in the Ottoman Empire carried out important work in the fields of astronomy, physics,history, geography, an politics. | True (5) |
True or False: (6) In the 17th and 18th centuries, Chinese elites maintained a sense of Cultural superiority and did not find a compelling reason to revise their view of the world | True (6) |
True or False: (7) Enlightenment thinkers believed in social equality fo all human beings in every part of the globe | False (7) |
True or False: (8) Absolutist governments were hostile to Enlightened ideas since such ideas challenged absolutist rule. | False (8) |
Akbar | 1. Had disscussions with people from other religions and common people 2. Created own religion, a mix of Islam and Hinduism. 3. Had 3 wives from 3 different religious backgrounds |
Voltaire | 1. Didn't like institutions 2. wrote many satires 3. thought the nature of man was bad. |
Rousseau | 1. man was born free but forever in chains 2. Noble Savage 3. feeling and reason should be used for education, not books |
Locke | 1. "clean slate" of mind at birth 2. rights of upper class 3. change the government if its not working. |
Smith | 1. Buissness was run by man's selfishness 2. proposed an early form of capitalism 3. lassie faire: let the people do as they please |
Montesquieu | 1. 3 tiered government + checks and balances 2. Against Absolutism 3. believed in a limited monarchy |
Hobbes | 1. During English Civil war 2. Nature of man is bad 3. meracantalism 4. Man is born free, exchanges freedom for security |
merchants in Ming China | were tolerated as long as they did not disturb political or social order |
in the Ottoman Empire merchants | were revered and celebrated as shrewd individuals |
in order to facilitate and secure the movements of the caravan trade Ottoman officials | established refreshment and military stations along caravan routes |
Portuguese oceangoing ventures benefited from all of the following except | development of gunpowder technologies especially cannonry |
the first European Sugar plantations in the Atlantic ocean were located in | the islands off teh west coast of Africa |
The Portuguese empire in the Indian Ocean | never aspired to colonize territoris but sought to exploit asian trade networks |
The Atlantic Ocean system involved a complex trading system between Europe, the Americas, and | Africa |
in 1492 the Spanish Monarchy conquere _______ the last Muslim stronghold on the Iberian Peninsula. | Granada |
Christopher Columbus did NOT | believe he had conquered new lands |
Ecomiendas were | labor grants given to Spanish conquerors over indigenous groups in the Americas by the Spanish crown |
_____ did not help the Spanish conquer the aztec empire | the aztecs organized resistance |
in the 1540s the Spanish crown sought to prevent the establishment of a powerful aristocracy in the former Inca empire by | preventing Ecomiendas from becoming inheritable |
the defeat of the Aztecs and the Incas had all of the following repercussions except | the europeans had a large labor pool of native poples form which to draw to develop the Americas |
All told foreign pathogens wiped out up to ___ of the Native American population during th 16th century | 90% |
in the Atlantic Ocean system, what role did Africa tend to play? | a supplier of labor |
The doctrines promoted by Martin Luther did all of the following except | argued that church officials were best suited to interpret the bible |
who preached the doctrine of predestination | Jean Calvin |
The Catholic Church's effort to respond to the challenges of the Protestant Reformation was known as | the Counter Reformation |
An example of the catholic church's ability to missionize and educate around the world in the 16th century was | the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits |
One major legacy of the Protestant Reformation in Europe is that | it encouraged dsunity in Europe and further propelled the process of nation formation |
The ruler that expanded Mughal control over much of the Indian subcontinent was | Akbar |
in Ming China in the late 16th century market activity spread as a result of | greater avalibility of silver money |
True or False: (9) following Vasco de Gama's sea voyage to south asia, the Portuguese soondeveloped and extensive trade with South Asia sending nearly 200 ships a year to the Indian Ocean | False (9) |
True or False: (10) the 2 primary images that Europeans established for native peoples of the Americas were as innocents or savages | True (10) |
True or False: (11) The Spanish experience conquering the Aztec Empire taought the Spanish that an effective conquest had to be accomplished quickly, destroying completley the symbols of legitamate aouthority | True (11) |
True or False: (12) Few Spanish women came to the americas and Spanish men often formed relationships with native women, resulting in mestizos | True (12) |
True or False: (13) in the 16th century, France,England and Holland clamied a share of wealth in the Americas by stealing treasure from the Spanish Ships while on the high seas | True (13) |
True or False: (14) Both European and Mughal rulers of the 16th century showed remarkable religious tolerance | False (14) |
the main avenue of transmission for the black death was | Eurasian trade routes |
A dynasty is best defined as | a hereditary ruling family that passed power from one generation to the next |
Mongol rulers in the MIddle East can be credited with | destroying the old political order of the religious world |
Ottoman territorial expansion culminated during the rein of | Suleiman |
Topkapi Palace served as all of the following except | a religious school |
what best describes the ottomans ruler's stance toward regional differences within their realm | they were flexible and tolerant to differences |
which islamic empire was the most single mindedly religious? | the Safavid Empire |
all of the following factors contributed to the downfall of the Dehli Sultanate except | the MOngol invasions of the early 14th century |
the founder of the Mughal dynasty in India was | Babur |
What best describes the impact of the Black Death on the influence of the church in Western Europe? | the black death unleashed a awave of popular hostility towards the church |
State building in Europe | was aided by strategic marriges and alliances |
the member of the Portugues royal family who supported naval developments was | Prince Henry the Navigator |
under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain | the last muslim stronghold in Spain, Granada, fell to Christian forces |
in terms of population European States in the 14th century | were smaller than their eurasian counterparts |
the most important European city in terms of trade between east and west Eurasia in the 14th century was | Venice |
instead of relying on the Church's teachings to analze the world the scholars and artists of the Renissance turned to | the classical teachings of Greece and Rome |
The Renissance created | a network of educated men and women who re not deoendent wholly on the state or church and who increasingly challenged th authority of both |
in china, foreigners were viewed as | barbarians |
the group that eventually drove th mongols out of china was known as | the Red Turbans |
what best describes the erly ming dynasty | it has to rebuild a devastated society from the ground up after the cotastrophes of the 14th century |
all of the following correctly describe the CHinese Emperor Hongwu except | Hongwu built an imperial bureacracy so powerful in eventually undermined his own rule |
Ming Religious reform | established Ming rulers as the moral and spiritual benefactors of their subjects |
the Ming dynasty viewed oversea trade as | a potential source of instability |
Zheng he's fleets did not visit | Western Europe |
as a result of the abandonment of the Ming dynatsy's support for oceanic exploration | chinese naval power declinded and opened the way for newcomers and rivals in the Indian ocean and the Southeast Asia |
True or False (15) The Eurasian dynasties of the 14th century all used religion to legitimize their rule | true (15) |
True or False (16) as a result of the trauma of the black death the western church in europe began to allow greater religious liberty as a way to rebuild support amoung the peasantry | false (16) |
True or False (17) in europe, political stabilization following the black death occured in the south were kingdoms and city-states enjoyed wasy access to the vibrant Mediteranian trade | true (17) |