Final Review Flashcards
Which of the following areas was not successfully defended by the catholic reformation?
The Netherlands
Which of the following statements about the renaissance is not accurate?
The renaissance failed to develop any new ideas concerning political organisation.
Which of the following statements most accurately describes a change in popular mentality as a result of the Protestant reformation?
Protestants and Catholics considered the family in more positive terms, not simply as an institution necessary because of human lust.
Which of the following was not one of the new areas brought into the global commercial network after 1450?
Scandinavia
The British were able to oust the French from India following the
Seven years war
Which of the following represents an impact of the development of colonies on Western Europe?
The use of colonially produced sugar spread widely in Europe, particularly in countries with relatively cold climates
What percentage of Russian population remained rural in the eighteenth century?
95%
How did Caribbean cities differ from those of Europe?
American cities were laid out in a grid plan
The Brazilian model of a plantation colony was later followed in the eighteenth century by other European nations in
The Caribbean
What conditions under cut the position of the Brazilian sugar plantation economy?
Competition from English, French, and Dutch plantation colonies in the Caribbean led to rising prices for slaves and falling prices for sugar
What was the negative impact of the discovery of gold on Portugal?
Portugal failed to develop internal industries because the supply of hold allowed the Portuguese to purchase manufactured goods from other European countries
What was the I tent of the reformed Spanish policy the commercio libre?
To open trade to the Spanish colonies to cities other than Seville or Cadiz
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the state of the Portuguese and Spanish American colonies by the middle of the 18th century?
The American colonies of Spain and Portugal were experiencing considerable growth in population and production capacity
Which of the following was not one of the early modern Islamic empires?
Abbasid empire
Which of the following statements concerning the relationships of the Muslim empires to the west is not accurate?
The absence of minority people’s within the empires left them without commercial and cultural contacts with the West
Which of the following statements about slavery in Europe before 1450 was most accurate?
Slavery had died out of the Middle Ages in most of Europe except along the military frontier between Christians and Muslims in the Mediterranean
How did the profitability of the slave trade compare to that of other contemporary business ventures?
The slave trade was little more profitable than most businesses activities of the age and was not a major source for the industrial revolution for Europe
That was the political impact of the prescience of Europeans on the African coast?
West and central kingdoms in land began to redirect their trade and expand their influences
What area of Africa was least affected by the slave trade?
Southern Africa
What was the average mortality for slaves shipped to the Americas in the Atlantic slave trade?
18-20 percent
Which of the following was not an impact of the renaissance on politics and commerce?
Under humanist influence, wars among Italian city-states became less frequent and violent
What was one of the primary differences between the northern and Italian renaissance?
Northern humanists focused more on religion than their Italian counterparts
What was the European style family pattern that emerged in the 15th cen?
Nuclear families, late marriage ages
Which of the following was not a religious proposition advanced by Martin Luther?
Priests should practice celibacy
Inflation and commercialisation in the west produced a group of people without access to producing property called the
Proletariat
How did the western view of science compare with that of other civilisations?
The west was not alone in developing crucial scientific data, but it’s thinkers were the only ones to see science in broader philosophical terms as central to intellectual life
Why were Africans sought for plantation labour in the Americas?
Africans rapidly expanded their population in the Latin American colonies
Which of the following statements concerning slave families is most accurate?
Despite enormous difficulties, slaves continued to live in their family units
Which of the following statements concerning the impact of the French rev. on the rest of Europe is not accurate?
The French rev and it’s subsequent empire created a general consensus after the defeat of France for a more liberal Europe
What movement of artisans and workers in the 1830’s and 40’s armed at obtaining the vote for all males?
Chartists
Which of the following statements concerning the rev. of 1848 is most accurate?
Nationalist agitation failed, as the armies of Russia and Austria-Hungary restored the political status quo.
Which of the following was not a motive for expansion in the late nineteenth cen?
The absence of influence of political leaders in the European countries
Which of the following statements concerning the internal economics of the European colonies is most accurate?
Colonial economies were steadily reduced to dependence on the Europe-dominated global market
Which of the following is not a similarity between South Africa and Australia?
Both were settled at approximately the same time
What event set the Boer colony in South Africa on a different path than the white dominions of Canada and Australia?
The annexation of the colony by the British in 1815
Prior to 1902, what type of colony was South Africa?
Contested settler colony
Which of the following nations did not enter the competitive race for colonial empire and industrial supremacy after 1870?
Spain
Which of the following was not a feature of twentieth-century world history?
A lessening of conflict
Which of the following was not an event leading to the outbreak of WW1?
France’s invasion of Belgium
By 1916, conflict on the western front
Had settled into a deadly stale meant in which hundreds of thousands of lives were expanded for a few feet of trench
By 1917 the war on the eastern front
Led to major revolution in Russia that toppled the tsarist government
Adolph Hitler was the political and ideological leader of the
National socialist party
All of the following policies were followed by soviet sponsored regimes in Eastern Europe except
The establishment of parliamentary democracies
Despite the loosening of soviet control over Eastern Europe following Stalin’s death, what aspects of soviet domination continued to be enforced?
Single-party dominance and military alignment with the Soviet Union
The communist party was run by a top committee, the
Politburo
Which of the following was not a source of pressure on the soviet family?
Religious constraints imposed by the Orthodox Church
Immediately after Stalin’s death in 1953, what form of government was established?
A ruling committee rather than a single-man rule
What was the outcome of the dinshawai incident in Egypt?
Mass support, including the emergence of the of the aryan alliance, for the national cause free in Egypt
What document during WW2 included a clause that recognised “the right of all people to choose the form of gov. under where they live”?
The Atlantic charter
Who emerged as the head of the nationalist party and defacto ruler of china by the late 1920’s?
Chaing Kai-shek
The communist victory over the nationalist forces was achieved following chiamps withdrawal to Taiwan in
1949
What was the impact of the Japanese invasion on the relative strengths of the struggle in china between the nationalist party and the communist party?
Japanese victories robbed the nationalists of their supporters in the southern cities and diminished chaing’s military reputation as saviour of china
In what way was the Chinese communist take over of china different than the Bolshevik seizure and power in Russia?
The Chinese communists claimed a unified country and did not experience years of civil war and foreign intervention
Which of the following statements concerning Chinese foreign policy during the 1950s and 60s is not accurate?
China was able to achieve a close alliance with the emerging third world gov. in India as a means of uniting the major powers of Asia
Which of the following statements concerning Chinese domestic policies during the 1950s and 60s is most accurate?
With the intro of the first five year plan in 1953, the communist leadership turned away from the peasantry
Which of the following “pragmatists” come to power following Mao’s fall in 1960?
Zhou enlai
The “gang of four” were
Jiang Qing and three allies who contested for power with the “pragmatists” on behalf of the waging war
The communist-dominated nationalist movement in Vietnam during WW1 was called the
Viet Minh
The Vietnamese nationalists in 1954 decisively defeated the French at the battle of
Dien Bien Phu
Communist opposition to the US supported gov. in south Vietnam was referred to as the
Viet Cong
