Midterm

Question 1

The Aztecs were defeated by the Spanish for reasons except:

Answer 1

Aztec army suffered from a lack of military training

Question 2

Who proposed that humans consisted of a material being (body) and immaterial being (thinking) which is called dualism

Answer 2

Rene Descartes

Question 3

Who introduced the line infantry in the mid-17th century which required extensive peacetime drills

Answer 3

Sweden

Question 4

The raising training and equipping of armies on the 16th 17th and 18th centuries required substantial increases in tax revenue. And all the emerging nations states across Europe this increase was resisted with one exception;

Answer 4

Netherlands

Question 5

Wealth became more respectable and Christian society under

Answer 5

Calvinism

Question 6

T/F: calvinism was essentially an urban Denomination, and peasants did not join in large

Answer 6

True

Question 7

T/F The ruling class in France preferred to build a centralize naval base state rather than a land-based state

Answer 7

False

Question 8

T/F The theory of absolutism as practiced by Louis XIV of France had both centralizing anti-centralizing qualities and therefore was not entirely absolute in the pure definition of the word

Answer 8

True

Question 9

T/F Louis XIV rain was Economically advantageous to France

Answer 9

False

Question 10

______ Was the most successful colonial power to achieve cooperation with the Native American populations

Answer 10

France

Question 11

T/F The British Davidson North American colonies a great deal of latitude and governing their own affairs during the early colonial period

Answer 11

True

Question 12

T/F Akbar realize that religious intolerance was distracted and wasteful and thereby developed a new religion called the divine faith which was very successful and ending religious strife during and after his reign

Answer 12

False

Question 13

T/F the Manchus Made the same mistake that the Mongols made about failing to recruit any Chinese for Hyatt in ministry to post and therefore laid the seeds for rebellion

Answer 13

False

Question 14

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

Answer 14

True

Question 15

T/F The Dominican order was instrumental in creating good relations with the Chinese court officials

Answer 15

False

Question 16

All the following civilizations were experiencing a movement to centralization and state building from 1500 to 1800 except ;

Answer 16

Africa

Question 17

All the following products were exchanged in the system of triangular trade established between Europe and America except;

Answer 17

Porcelain

Question 18

_____ _____ propose the idea of using debtor prisoners in England to settle the colony of _____ which was used as a bulwark against Spanish to Florida

Answer 18

James Oglethorpe

Georgia

Question 19

The tax placed on unbelievers by the mughals was called

Answer 19

Jizya

Question 20

____ Was the first European power to establish trade in India

Answer 20

Portugal

Question 21

The slave ships voyage from Africa to America is referred to as the _____ _____

Answer 21

Middle passage

Question 22

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 color line that defined a permanent underclass and identify blackness with slavery and inferiority. This phenomenon is called

Answer 22

Racism

Question 23

Both ____ and ____ We’re worried about outside foreign influences on their empires and took steps to control those influences

Answer 23

China & Japan

Question 24

People of the book

Answer 24

Jews and Christians

Question 25

Mughals, Persians, and Ottomans

Answer 25

Gunpowder empires

Question 26

Aurangzeb

Answer 26

Ruled by sharia law

Question 27

Akbar

Answer 27

Tolerant of all religions

Question 28

Boers

Answer 28

Afrikaners

Question 29

Practice of ottomans conscripting young Christians to be a part of the janissaries which is an exclusive army

Answer 29

Devsirme

Question 30

Practice of ottomans conscripting young Christians to be a part of the janissaries which is an exclusive army

Answer 30

Devsirme