Final Flashcards
Aztecs were defeated by the Spanish for all of the following reasons except
Aztec army suffered from a lack of military training
____ Propose that humans consisted of a material (body) being & an immaterial being (thinking)which is called dualism
Rene Descartes
____ Introduced the line of infantry in the mid-17th century which required extensive peacetime drills
Sweden
The racing, training, and equipping of armies in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries required substantial increases in tax revenue. And all the emerging nation-states across Europe this increase was resistant with one exception
Netherlands
Well became more respectable and Christian society under____
Calvinism
T/F Calvinism was essential in urban denomination, and peasants did not join in large numbers
True
T/F The ruling class in France preferred to build a centralized naval base state rather than a land-based state
False
T/F The theory of absolutism, as practice by Louis XIV of France, had both centralizing and do you centralizing qualities and therefore was not entirely absolute in the pure definition of the word
True
T/F Louis XIV reign was it economically advantageous to France
False
T/F the practice of “devsirme” Conscripting young boys to be trained soldiers and administrators in the ottoman empire, was against Islamic law. Therefore, Ottomans sultans ruling by divine grace, were makers of their own law and Muslim scholars would have to adapt sharia law as best as they could
True
____ was the most Successful colonial power to achieve cooperation with the Native American populations
France
____ Was the first war fought all over the world and resulted in a tremendous increase in debt for the vanquished and the Victor, there by contributing to American and French revolutions in the second half of the 18th century
The 7 years war
T/F The British David’s North American colonies a great deal of latitude in governing their own affairs during the early colonial period
True
T/F Akbar realize that religious intolerance was distructive and wasteful and there by developed a new religion called the “divine faith” which was very successful in ending religious strife during the after his reign
False
T/F the Manchus Made the same mistake that the Mongols made about failing to recruit any Chinese for high administrative posts and therefore laid the seeds for rebellions
False
T/F The tent government in Japan which set up the rule for alternate attendance in Edo was similar to Louis XIV summoning the nobility of France to Versailles so he could loosen the reins of their power in their home provinces
True
T/F The Dominican order was instrumental in creating good relations with the Chinese court officials
False
All the following civilizations were experiencing a movement to centralization state building from 1500 to 1800 except
Africa
All of the following products were exchanged in the system of triangular trade established between Europe and the Americas except
Porcelain
____ Propose the idea of using debtor prisoners in England to settle the colony of_____ which was used as a bulwark against Spanish Florida
James Oglethorpe
& Georgia
The tax place done unbelievers by the mughals was called
Jizya
The first European power to establish trade in India
Portugal
The slave ships voyage from Africa to the Americas is referred to as the ____
Middle passage
The plantation zone With its cash crops and tremendous profits in the Americas created the largest demand for human labor. It resulted in establishing an immutable colorline that to find a permanent underclass and identified blackness with slavery and inferiority this phenomenon is called
Racism
Both ___ and ____ were Worried about outside foreign influences on their empires and took steps to control those influences
Japan and China
Matching-
- People of the book
- Mughals, Persians, & ottomans
- Aurangzeb
- Akbar
- Boers
- Jews and Christians
- Gunpowder empires
- Rules by sharia law
- Tolerant of all religions
- Afrikaners
____ reaction to foreign intrusion was more urgent
Japan’s
____ leadership was more unified in facing the western threats
Japan’s
___ has needed to import most of its raw materials. A situation that has continued to this days
Japan
___ was the loser in the sink-Japanese war
China
____ finances Were continually strained by artificially low treaty tariffs and the obligation to pay old indemnities
China’s
T/F At the end of the 19th-century great Britain suggested that all Western powers refrain from securing exclusive concessions and instead maintained an open door for all trade in China
False
T/F The mandated by annual pilgrimage of high-ranking Chinese officials to the capital of Beijing aided in the expansion of economy of China
False
T/F The taping rebellion was the largest civil war in world history and resulted in the death of some 30 million Chinese
True
T/F The three responses (reaction, reform, and revolution) were possible courses of action by China and Japan to address the western threat in the 19th century. The one selected by both countries to follow was reform
False
T/F The Meiji Constitution borrowed greatly from the western constitutions but the one exception that Japan utilize was by placing the phrase “unless provided by law “ which left the door open for the government to invoke extra ordinary powers during national emergencies
True
________ between the unites states and Japan was the first treaty signed by japan with an outside power
Treaty of kanagawa
In the treaty of nanjing the British insisted that the Chinese could now charge no more than a 5% tariff on British goods. This loss of a country is right to set it on tariffs is called
No tariff autonomy
T/F According to Einstein’s theory of relativity either space nor time had an existence independent of the human experience
True
T/F Friedrich Nietzsche Proposed the concept of a superman to enable superior intellectuals to free themselves from the ordinary thinking of the masses
True
