Unit 4 Flashcards
What was the one major advantage that allowed the small Portuguese fleet to dominate the Indian Ocean militarily?
a. They had large amounts of gold.
b. They could speak the languages of the cultures they encountered.
c. Their onboard cannon could defeat other ships and coastal forts.
d. They intermarried with local leaders’ families.
c
What strategic significance did the Philippines hold for Spain?
a. Christianity was already established on the islands.
b. They were close to China, but not ruled by China.
c. They could be used to launch attacks on Portuguese forts.
d. They were close to Australia.
b
What was one main difference between the Spanish colonization of the Philippines and the Portuguese strongholds the Indian Ocean Basin?
a. The Spanish converted Filipinos to Christianity; the Portuguese often blended into the local populations.
b. The Spanish only established coastal outposts; the Portuguese conquered inland areas.
c. The Portuguese killed large amounts of natives; the Spanish did not use violence to enforce their rule.
d. The Portuguese were only interested in spreading Christianity; the Spanish were only interested in getting rich.
a
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the emergence of silver as the currency of global trade in the sixteenth century?
a. Skyrocketing Chinese demand for silver as a means for paying taxes.
b. The proximity of the Spanish Philippines to China.
c. The lack of any silver mines in Asia.
d. The discover of vast silver mines in Bolivia.
c
How did the discovery of silver mines in Japan impact Japanese fortunes?
a. The ruling shogunate isolated Japan even more, fearing that greedy Europeans would conquer and enslave Japanese for their silver as in the Andes.
b. The ruling shogunate used the silver to buy a large military and luxury goods for the elites, but did nothing to help commoners.
c. The ruling shogunate wisely invested wealth from the mines to create a sustainable market-based economy and ecology.
d. The ruling shogunate disintegrated into civil war and anarchy as factions fought over control of the silver mines.
c
In what way did the Chinese response to the global silver economy differ from the Japanese response?
a. The Chinese economy became diversified; the Japanese did not.
b. Chinese merchants began exporting goods to other lands; Japan did not.
c. Inflation destroyed the Chinese economy; but aided the Japanese economy.
d. Economic changes resulted in ecological devastation in China, but not in Japan.
d
What was the main way through which Europeans acquired furs in North America?
a. Trade with Native Americans
b. Hunting by European fur traders
c. Trapping
d. Raising furry animals
a
How did African slavery in the New World differ fundamentally from past instances of slavery in world history?
a. Black Africans had never before been enslaved.
b. Slavery previously was only practiced in the Middle East.
c. Slavery in the Americas was clearly associated with race and with plantation economies.
d. Slaves were usually not transported long distances.
c
How did African slavery in the New World differ fundamentally from past instances of slavery in world history?
a. Black Africans had never before been enslaved.
b. Slavery previously was only practiced in the Middle East.
c. Slavery in the Americas was clearly associated with race and with plantation economies.
d. Slaves were usually not transported long distances.
a
All of the following explain why Christianity did not catch on in China EXCEPT:
a. Christianity offered little not already offered by Chinese religions.
b. Conversion to Christianity was all-or-nothing, and ruled out much Chinese culture.
c. Jesuits were viewed as superstitious and uneducated by Chinese intellectuals.
d. Western military gains in Asia made many Chinese suspicious of missionaries.
c
How were individual merchants, wandering holy men, or scholars able to spread Islam further throughout Africa, Asia, and even the Americas during the Early Modern Era?
a. They were not threatening to local rulers, and were often quite useful.
b. They were advance scouts for Islamic armies preparing invasion.
c. They were not able to spread Islam on their own.
d. They offered to convert local people if those people gave up their old religions.
a
Which of the following best describes the state created by Abd al-Wahhab and Muhammad Ibn Saud in the 1740s?
a. A state based on a pure and strict interpretation of Islam
b. A state dedicated to the creation of material wealth
c. A state open to learning and understanding the world’s other religions
d. A state defined by corruption, greed, and non-Islamic values
a
How might the Hindu practice of bhakti have threatened the social order in India?
a. It sought to revive Hinduism.
b. It set aside caste distinctions.
c. It encouraged foot-washing.
d. It sought to combine Islam and Hinduism.
b
Why was the legal concept of a “corporation” so important to the development of the European Scientific Revolution?
a. It allowed universities to have a measure of educational and intellectual freedom from the church and state.
b. It allowed for large-scale businesses to develop that could fund research.
c. It allowed universities to make profits.
d. It allowed churches and monasteries to make profits off their inventions.
a
What role did science play in the educational systems of Islamic and Chinese societies?
a. It was central.
b. It was marginal.
c. There was great curiosity, but no texts in their languages.
d. These societies had never had interest in science.
b
How does the Enlightenment compare to the Scientific Revolution?
a. The Enlightenment applied the idea of natural laws to human affairs.
b. The Enlightenment refers to people’s growing awareness of the Scientific Revolution.
c. The Enlightenment inspired the Scientific Revolution.
d. The Enlightenment was more mystical than the Scientific Revolution.
a
How did many Enlightenment thinkers, such as Voltaire, think about established religion?
a. They were devoutly religious.
b. They believed they could replace Christianity with an even better religion.
c. They saw most religions as superstitious and intolerant.
d. Publicly they supported the Church, but privately they mocked it.
c
why couldn’t europe trade during unit 4?
the muslim conflicts were blocking the roads
What nationality was Martin Luther?
German
The birth of Lutheranism prompted ..
humanism
secular power to monarchs, not church
human rights
(due process, habius corpus)
What helped the growth of cash crops?
the introduction of horse power
What was the beginning of the wealth gap?
intensification/colonization of trade routes
certain people were getting richer than the average farmer
What does “interdependency” mean?
many countries became dependant on each ohter because only some countries could produce certain things
Controlling ____ gave hte upper hand at this time?
sea lanes
what new element was introduced to slavery?
exporting slaves
who would “export” slaves?
local africans
peninsulares
spain born person who came to S america
creol
2nd generation spanish in S america
how many slaves were uprooted from africa?
10 million
mita
slavery in inca empire
Mestizo
S. America/White
Mulatto
Black/White
Who were allowed into the isolated Japan?
Chinese & Dutch
Where did hte Dutch set post?
Indonesia
Who were the first to do maritime long distance trade?
Portugese
the 3Gs
gold, glory, god
The Safavids: shiia or shiite
Shiite
