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What best describes the spread colony of the Spanish Empire in the Americas

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It centered on farming and mining operations

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What was associated with the Great Dying

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The Little Ice Age

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What is the Little Ice Age

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A period of cooling that occurred after the medieval period

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What is true of the plantation/ecomienda system in Latin America

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It relied on a steady supply of slave labor

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What country settled along the Mississippi River during the early modern period

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The French

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What describes European’s attitudes towards empire building

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They were enlightening barbarians with their society

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What characterizes Akbar the Great

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He brought the Hindu and Muslim populations together

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One of the driving forces behind the European desire for gold was

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Mercantilism

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What describes the fate of the Siberian’s people under Russian rule

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They were assimilated into Russian society

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What is marked by the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans

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The beginning of an age of Muslim dominance in Eurasia

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What country still had tribal peoples living in it during the early modern period

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Australia

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What event was most disruptive to European society in the 14th and 15th centuries

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The Hundred Years War

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What describes the roles of women in Inca and Aztec societies

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They were in separate but equal spheres of society compared to men

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What marked a period in European history where more emphasis was placed on art and expression

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The Renaissance

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How were the Aztecs and Incas similar

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Both started as outsiders who conquered a region

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What was the main form of society present in North America in the 15th century

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Hunting and gathering

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What set the European colonies in America apart from colonies in the rest of the world

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Reliance on slave labor

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The creation of what two empires had the greatest on Central Asia

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The Russian and Chinese empires

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What best describes Ottoman rule over Southeastern Europe

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They were accommodating of the native Christians

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What was the common trait shared by Ming and Ottoman dynasties

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Both featured strong, organized bureaucracies

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What set the Russian Empire apart from European empires

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It both established and expanded itself at the same time

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What was untouched by prominent trade routes in Afro-Eurasia

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Japan

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Europe’s many different countries represent

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A deeply fragmented society

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What was included in Constantinople’s defensive design?

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High roads surrounded by the sea

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The rise of what blocked direct commercial contact between Europe and China

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The Ottoman Empire

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How was Islam introduced into Southeast Asia and West Africa

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By traveling merchants

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How were Ottoman troops able to overcome the defenses of Constantinople

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Gaining access to the sea surrounding the walls

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How did the Chinese state resolve the problem created by a growing population and land scarcity

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It made more intensive use of available land

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What was a concept of a web that linked many of the people’s of the world in the fifteenth century

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Empire

30
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Where did the Ottoman Empire extend its control during the 16th century

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North Africa

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Why would the fall of Constantinople to Ottoman forces have been memorialized by Christians and Muslims as a significant event

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Constantinople represented the historical capital and center of Eastern Roman Christian civilization

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How did the Inca Empire’s treatment of conquered peoples differ from that of the Aztec Empire

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The Aztec Empire demanded tribute and used prisoners of war as human sacrifices, whereas the Inca Empire created a bureaucracy, encouraged cultural assimilation, incorporated people in lower levels of bureaucracy, and practiced religious tolerance

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What features differentiated the four Islamic empires in the fifteenth century

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The Mughal Empire was in India, the Songhay Empire was in North Africa, the Safavid Empire endorses Shia Islam, the Ottoman Empire has to deal with a Christian population, the Mughal Empire has to deal with a Hindu population, the Songhay Empire blended Islam with local faiths

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Who would Russia come into direct conflict with as it spread into the Blacj Sea

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The Ottomans

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As Russia spread to Siberia, it encroached on what lands

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The lands of the Manchuria dynasty

36
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Where did Russia become a prominent power during the 18th century

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The Baltic Sea

37
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What characterized the colonial economy of the Spanish Empire

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It was based on commercial agriculture and mining

38
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What describes slavery in Latin America

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Large-scale importation of new slaves continued into the nineteenth a century

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What reflects mercantilism

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Accumulating precious metals

40
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During which century did Russia experience its most extensive territorial expansion

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The 17th century

41
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What did the Europeans Christians refer to the people of the Pacific Northwest as

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Affluent hunters and gatherers

42
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What did the Igbo and Iroquois lack

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A larger state system

43
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Who rebuilt much of Genghis Khan’s empire?

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Tamerlane

44
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What country did Tamerlane fail to conquer

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China

45
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Who were the Fulbre

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African nomadic cattle herders who travelled alongside settled societies

46
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Who supported the sea voyages of the Chinese

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Emperor Yongle

47
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Who participated in grand Chinese voyages which almost bankrupted the economy

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Zheng He

48
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How did Zheng He’s voyages differ from European voyages to America

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Zheng He did not seek to conquer, but rather to expand the trade system

49
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What was the Rennaisance

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A resurgence of Greco-Roman art and philosophy

50
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Who did the Mexica claim descent from

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Toltec

51
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What city was the capital of the Aztec Empire

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Tenochtitlan

52
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What is the encomienda system

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A system in which Spanish settlers were given control over territory and allowed to extract wealth and labor as the saw fit

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What is the repartimiento system

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A system with more direct government control

54
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What is the hacienda system

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A system in which Spanish officials were given large lands and paid piots small wages to work their land

55
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Why did the Russians conquer Siberia

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To gain access to furs

56
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What is the devshirme system

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A system in the Ottoman Empire where Christian families had to turn over their first born son to be converted to Islam and raised by the state

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