02-10-25 Flashcards
All of the following describe the Atlantic slave system except
the first instance of contact between African and European civilizations.
According to mercantilist theory, a national economy could only grow if the home country
and its colonies were to trade exclusively with each other ,were to forge a trade-tight system of national commerce,imposed navigation laws and tariffs on its colonies.
d.
All of these answers are correct.
Conquistadores are best described as
Spanish adventurers who sought to gain wealth and glory for themselves.
Why were the Spanish able to conquer the Aztecs?
A.
European diseases decimated native American tribes.
b.
The Spanish military technology was superior.
c.
There were insurrections among Aztec subject peoples.
d.
All of these answers are correct.
The answer is D
Francisco Pizarro was able to conquer the Incas because
he deceived, captured, and killed the Inca emperor.
Bartolomé de Las Casas believed that
conquest was not necessary for the conversion of Native Americans.
Besides the introduction of diseases, the Columbian Exchange affected the people of the Americas by
a.
increasing the sources of protein in their diet.
b.
introducing animals that could be used for transportation and warfare.
c.
introducing crops that could most efficiently be cultivated by slave labor.
d.
All of these answers are correct.
The answer is D
According to an un-named friar, a mita was a
method of forced labor exacted from the native peoples
The responsibility of the Casa de Contratación was to
regulate trade with the New World
The economies of the Spanish colonies in Latin America were dominated by
mining and ranching.
The repartimiento
required adult male Indians to devote a particular number of days of labor annually to Spanish economic enterprises.
The encomienda was a
grant awarding colonists the right to the labor of Native Americans.
The flota system was
an attempt to regulate Spanish trade in the New World.
The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
divided the empires of Spain and Portugal.
Most of the African slaves taken to the New World went to
sugar plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean.
English colonies in North America were different from Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Latin America because they
were more suspicious of royal power and enjoyed more self-government.
The English founded colonies in North America for all of the following reasons except the desire
to convert Native Americans.
Slavery
a.
became prominent in sub-Saharan Africa only in the 16th century.
b.
was limited to European traders in sub-Saharan Africa.
c.
was not practiced by Islamic states in North Africa.
d.
None of these answers are correct.
ANSWER IS D
The occidental slave trade of the Europeans particularly disrupted
West and Central Africa.
The relationship between slave-trading and the general development of trade within Africa was
unknown to present historians, though the slave trade detracted from economic development overall.
The Chinese response to Jesuit priests who attempted to introduce science into their societies was
general indifference
The fundamental similarity between Chinese and Japanese culture in the nineteenth century was based on
Confucianism
Under the Ming dynasty, Chinese population
grew significantly
China’s third commercial revolution was based primarily on
a.
a surge of population.
b.
the importation of silver.
c.
the relaxation of government controls.
d.
All of these answers are correct.
D IS THE ANSWER
In Ming-Qing times, government was characterized by
an increasingly well-funded and extensive bureaucracy
Confucianism in imperial China advocated the idea that
the state is identified with the family.
The Manchu desire to maintain themselves as an ethnically separate elite group can be seen in all of the following policies except the
movement of the capital from Mukden to Beijing.
The mandarins were
powerful bureaucrats
The Ming-Qing foreign policy can best be described as
aggressive
All of the following were economic innovations during the third commercial revolution in China except the
creation of a national economic system
The chief threat to the Ming dynasty were the
Mongols
Zheng He’s experiences showed the
lack of interest in maritime exploration by the Chinese
The Japanese Warring States era ended with the
national unification under the Tokugawa shoguns
Vermillion-seal trade” refers to trade
officially sanctioned by the Japanese ruler.
All of the following are reasons Christianity was more accepted in Japan than in China except
the similar roles played by Japanese and Christian holy figures.
Under the Tokugawa, all of the following methods were used to control and to stabilize society except
the elimination of domains
The Chinese influence on Japan, Korea, and Vietnam included all of the following except
the use of the Chinese alphabet and language
The Vietnamese used all of the following Chinese techniques to build their government except
Legalist principles of law and order.
The Nguyen dynasty in 19th century Vietnam
rejected French influence and adopted elements of Chinese governance.
Vietnam’s Le Thanh Tong weakened the nobility by
holding civil service examinations for the selection of officials.
Which of the following is true about Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
A.Many states consolidated themselves into stronger, more aggressive political units.
b.
The economies took their first steps toward industrialization.
c.
Food supplies stabilized, and population increased.
d.
All of these answers are correct.
ANSWER IS D
The Puritans were
Calvinists who wanted to purify the Anglican church.
Parliament readily supported the monarchy of Charles II because of their
dissatisfaction with Cromwell’s Puritan republic
Politically, the Glorious Revolution replaced
James II with William and Mary.
After his invasion in 1688, William of Orange recognized a Bill of Rights that accomplished all of the following except
allowing for full religious toleration in England and its empire
Which phrase best sums up the spirit of Louis XIV’s government?
I am the state”
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV led to all of the following except
the end of the French wars of religion.
The French state turned absolutist for all of the following reasons except
the relative homogeneity of the population in terms of religion and language.
A major goal of Peter the Great’s reforms was to
increase the military power of Russia.
The German landowning nobility of Prussia was known as the
Junkers.
The ancien regime refers to
social, economic, and political relationships in France before 1789.
Probably the most striking feature of the Old Regime was the
contrast in the lives and experiences of people in different social ranks.
The concept of “family economy” maintained that
the household was the fundamental unit of production and consumption
The innovations that drove the agricultural revolution seem to have originated with
landlords, whose earnings had increased because their products were valuable to a growing population.
The Industrial Revolution started in Britain for all of the following reasons except
taxation was not especially heavy.
The steam engine made possible the
industrialization of many areas of production.
In what ways did colonies contribute to the process of industrialization in Britain?
They furnished raw materials for manufacturers and provided a market for British manufactured goods.
Henry Cort’s rolling mill
produced iron bars, rails, and other forms from molten metal.
Which of the following statements best explains the growing tension between the aristocracy and the middle class?
The aristocracy refused to share power with the middle class.
During the early modern period, urban Jews were confined to areas called
ghettos
