Chapters 15-23 Flashcards
Which of the following was not influential in the Renaissance?
Industrialization
One of the reasons that the Chinese did not have overseas empires was
They did not colonize
Christopher Columbus hoped to
Convert the Native peoples to Christianity
Within a hundred years of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage, millions of Ameridians had died mainly from
Disease
The Aztec Altepetl was able to expand because of
Conquest
The Inca rulers were determined by
Combat
Christopher Columbus was from
Italy
The Catholic Reformation was
An attempt by Catholics to reform Catholicism
The Portuguese achieved trade by
Force
Confucianism stressed
Strict gender hierarchies
Which of these countries would Ming China have considered the least civilized?
Japan
The largest movement of people at this point in time came from
Atlantic slave trade
Who was at the forefront of early modern capitalism?
The Dutch
The ultimate basis of Mughal wealth and power was
Agriculture
The Portuguese were seeking an oceanic route for trade because
The Muslims controlled the land routes
The main source of revenue for the tsars and nobility was
Agricultural surplus
The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was
The slaughter of Huguenots by Catholics
Janissaries were
Elite slaves
Empires that collapsed during this time period include all of the following except
The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire’s form of Islam is classified as
Sunni
Iberian Muslims were
Forced to convert to Christianity but practiced Islam in private
When Shah Abbas invited European merchants and diplomatic representatives to Isfahan, which country/people group was favored?
Russia
Constantinople was seized in 1453 by
The Ottoman Empire
Syncretism is
The mixing of paganism and Christianity
Cultural and racial mixing were uncommon in New England because
There were equal numbers of European men and women
Brazil was Portugal’s most important overseas colony because of
Sugar and gold
It was ____ that filled the Spanish treasury and transformed the world economy.
Silver
All of the following displaced Spain’s pre-eminence during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries except for
Portugal
By 1641 what percentage of the Huron had been killed by disease?
50%
The foundation for Virginia’s prosperity was
Tobacco
Spain’s main goal concerning the New Worlds was
Extract wealth
What was the last and largest African Empire?
The Songhai Empire
Kimpa Vita preached that
Jesus Christ was an African
The Act for the _________ of the Slave Trade passed in the year _____ .
Abolition; 1807
The first major country to abolish slavery was
Britain
The three areas involved in the triangular trade were:
Africa, America, Europe
The Black Seminoles were
Runaway slaves who lived and mixed with the Creek
What powerful kingdom or kingdoms emerged in the Great Lakes region?
All of the above (Baganda & Rwanda)
What percentage of African slaves who crossed the Atlantic came to British North America?
5%
After the fragmentation of the Mughal Empire, who stepped into their place?
Britain
Women worked in the area of
Weaving
The Qing Dynasty was marked by all of the following except
Religious intelerance
What did the engine of Chinese textile production consist of?
Human labor
By what standard was Qing China prosperous?
Confucian
The Seclusion Edicts
Outlawed Christianity
What showed the increasing influence of Europe in Asian affairs?
Russian and British expansion
All of the following were the true foundations of Aurangzeb’s empire except
Territorial conquest
The “moderns” rejected the infallibility of
Both b and c (Classical authority and Christian theology)
Enlightenment ideas include all of the following except
Superstition
All of the following women were Enlightenment thinkers except for
Montesquieu
Studying _______ is characteristic of all cultures.
Plant life
Joseph Banks’ voyage helped expand
The knowledge of the natural world
New South Wales began as a
Penal colony
Enlightened despots claimed they brought which of the following to their domains:
Order, harmony, and reason
Linnaeus invented which of the following
Both a and b (Binomial nomenclature and Hierarchy classification of living things)
How did Tupac Amaru II die?
Execution by the Spanish government
What are caudillos and what did they look after?
Dictatorial rulers who looked out for themselves and the military
The Constitution of the United States of America grants which of the following powers to the federal government
Taxation and judicial oversight
The Bill of Rights established which of the following rights?
None of the above
The Third Estate was made up of
The Middle Class
The Amerindian uprising of 1780 in the Andes was led by
Tupac Amaru II
All of the following factors inhibited a strong sense of “Venezuelan” identity except for
Religious divisions
Boukman and Toussaint L’Ouverture were famous for starting revolutions in
Haiti
Social Darwinism justified
Social inequality
Who unified Italy by conquering Naples and Sicily?
Guiseppe Garibaldi
Marx saw history as propelled by
Changes in modes of production
What philosophy guided Victorian reform?
Utilitarianism
The Industrial Revolution was unleashed by
Improvements in the production of iron
Adam Smith argued that ________ was a key to increased productivity.
Division of labor
Herzen saw the Emancipation Edits as
A wasted opprotunity for more meaningful reform
John Stuart Mill believed that
Both a and b (working men should be able to vote & women should be able to vote)
