Midterm 1 Flashcards
Who had the most advanced economy in the world before the eighteenth century?
China
Why did women in Southeast Asia tend to have more economic power than women in India, China, and Europe?
They took the primary role in planting and harvesting rice
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?
Ottoman
What event occurred in the Byzantine empire in the late fifteenth century that limited Europe’s access to spices from the East?
Ottoman armies conquered Constantinople and took control of trade routes to the East
Scholars have identified the natives first encountered by Columbus as peoples from what indigenous group?
Taino
The assembly called by Charles V in Valladolid, Spain, in 1550 debated what issue?
The exploitation of the native population of the Americas
What did the Spanish discover at Potosì in the sixteenth century?
Silver, in large quantities
What did the encomienda system, established by the Spanish crown, allow Spaniards to do?
Exact tribute and forced labor from the native people on a particular piece of land
How far west did Zheng He explore in the fifteenth century?
Egypt
Where did Italian merchants originally purchase slaves?
The Balkans
Where did the Turks originate?
Mongolia
Who were the janissaries?
Elite Ottoman slave soldiers
What was the religious basis of the Safavid Dynasty?
Shi’ite Islam
Which of these did Akbar use to help govern his vast empire?
Four co-equal ministers
How did Aurangzeb anger many of his subjects?
His Islamic zealotry troubled his non-Muslim subjects
To where have Arabs traced the first use of coffee?
To Sufi religious rituals in Yemen
What did Aurangzeb do in his attempts to enforce a more Islamic culture?
He forbade Sati and abolished all taxes not authorized by Islamic law
The Treaty of Paris in 1763 gave control of India to whom?
The British
What practice did Shah Abbas of the Safavids adopt from the Ottomans?
He built an army of slaves
Suleiman and Francis I of France formed an alliance to prevent the expansion in Europe of what ruling family?
The Hasburgs
