Midterm 1 Flashcards

1
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Who had the most advanced economy in the world before the eighteenth century?

A

China

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2
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Why did women in Southeast Asia tend to have more economic power than women in India, China, and Europe?

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They took the primary role in planting and harvesting rice

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3
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By the mid-sixteenth century, what empire had established control over eastern Mediterranean routes to trading centers in Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and the rest of North Africa?

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Ottoman

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What event occurred in the Byzantine empire in the late fifteenth century that limited Europe’s access to spices from the East?

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Ottoman armies conquered Constantinople and took control of trade routes to the East

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5
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Scholars have identified the natives first encountered by Columbus as peoples from what indigenous group?

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Taino

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6
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The assembly called by Charles V in Valladolid, Spain, in 1550 debated what issue?

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The exploitation of the native population of the Americas

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7
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What did the Spanish discover at Potosì in the sixteenth century?

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Silver, in large quantities

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8
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What did the encomienda system, established by the Spanish crown, allow Spaniards to do?

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Exact tribute and forced labor from the native people on a particular piece of land

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9
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How far west did Zheng He explore in the fifteenth century?

A

Egypt

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10
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Where did Italian merchants originally purchase slaves?

A

The Balkans

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11
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Where did the Turks originate?

A

Mongolia

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12
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Who were the janissaries?

A

Elite Ottoman slave soldiers

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13
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What was the religious basis of the Safavid Dynasty?

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Shi’ite Islam

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14
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Which of these did Akbar use to help govern his vast empire?

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Four co-equal ministers

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15
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How did Aurangzeb anger many of his subjects?

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His Islamic zealotry troubled his non-Muslim subjects

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16
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To where have Arabs traced the first use of coffee?

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To Sufi religious rituals in Yemen

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17
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What did Aurangzeb do in his attempts to enforce a more Islamic culture?

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He forbade Sati and abolished all taxes not authorized by Islamic law

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18
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The Treaty of Paris in 1763 gave control of India to whom?

A

The British

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19
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What practice did Shah Abbas of the Safavids adopt from the Ottomans?

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He built an army of slaves

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20
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Suleiman and Francis I of France formed an alliance to prevent the expansion in Europe of what ruling family?

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The Hasburgs

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21
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What happened on Saint Bartholomew’s Day August 24, 1572?

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French Catholics attacked Calvinists at the wedding of the king’s sister

22
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Martin Luther clashed with what Habsburg emperor?

23
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What was the root cause of the Thirty Years’ War?

A

Conflicts between Catholics and Protestants

24
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Who did the Spanish crown expel in 1609?

A

Moriscos, or former muslims

25
Louis XIV believed in what political doctrine?
The divine right of kings
26
In the late seventeenth century, the Austrian Habsburgs drove what rival empire out of Hungary?
The Ottomans
27
Who held the political power in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century?
An oligarchy of wealthy businessmen
28
The first permanent French settlement at Quebec was founded as
a fur trading post
29
What was an important aspect of Peter the Great's tour of Western Europe?
He was particularly impressed by the power of the Dutch and English
30
The negative reputation of Ivan the Terrible grew from his violent treatment of what group?
The leading boyar families
31
How did humanists of the 15th century help provide a foundation for the Scientific Revolution?
They emphasized the value of acquiring practical knowledge
32
What was Copernicus's primary reason for rejecting the Ptolemaic model of the solar system.
He felt that it was too unwieldy to be part of God's harmonious creation.
33
How did Johannes Kepler refine the Copernican model of the solar system?
He hypothesized elliptical orbits for the planets
34
Isaac Newton's theories were based on the principle that the motions of the universe could be explained through which of the following?
mathematics
35
Which of the following did empiricism emphasize?
Acquiring evidence through observation and experimentation
36
Which two men are generally given credit for creating the modern scientific method?
Renè Descartes and Francis Bacon
37
What did John Locke claim in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding?
That all ideas are derived from experience
38
Rousseau's Social Contract was based on what two fundamental concepts?
The general will and popular sovereignty
39
The consumer revolution came about in part because of
Cheap reproductions and colonial trade
40
The Haskalah movement advocated for which of the following?
Religious freedom and civil rights for European Jews
41
How were chattel slaves viewed?
They were commodities that were considered subhuman property
42
For what is Leo Africanus best known?
His descriptions of African society
43
Why was the city of Timbuktu well known?
It possessed a thriving urban culture
44
In the trans-Saharan trade, Kanem-Bornu traded slaves to North Africa for what?
Horses
45
What was the chief trade good in the trans-Saharan trade routes?
Salt
46
What was the primary religion of Ethiopia?
Coptic Christianity
47
Roughly 35% of Swahili words come from which of the following languages?
Arabic
48
What important role did the Portuguese forts and markets at Kilwa, Zanzibar, and Sofala have?
They became the foundation of Portuguese economic power on the Swahili coast.
49
Which of these was true of the black population of eighteenth-century London?
Most black Londonders were sailors or personal servants
50
Most slaves exported by the Portuguese to Brazil came from
Angola