Ch 13-15 Exam

What did Europeans mean when they proposed that Africans should engage in "legitimate" trade?

Africans should sell raw materials instead of slaves, and buy manufactured goods from Europe.

Which of the following was a long-term effect of the Atlantic trade on Africa?

American food crops produced more calories per acre than traditional African staples, which partially offset the population loss of the slave trade.

Which of the following is a similarity between indigenous peoples in the Pacific and the Americas?

Both groups had large numbers of people perish from European-introduced disease.

Which of the following accurately describes the role of silver in early seventeenth-century China?

China increasingly relied on the global trading system for silver, making the Chinese economy vulnerable to dislocation.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, what led the Japanese to consider how to control and integrate foreign learning (especially from China and Europe)?

Earlier, foreign ideas rarely traveled beyond coastal regions, but by the eighteenth century, expanded networks of exchange facilitated their spread throughout the country.

Which of the following prevented English monarchs, such as Queen Elizabeth I, from establishing an absolutist regime?

English monarchs were legally required to obtain the consent of Parliament in order to raise funds.

As Africa became increasingly caught up in global economic exchanges during this period, African culture was heavily influenced by European culture.

False

In the sixteenth century, the world's most dynamic cultures were in Europe because of their control of the Atlantic trade.

False

Which of the following supported the Mughal nobility's lavish lifestyle?

Foreign trade brought in silver had advanced the money economy, which helped the nobility prosper.

By 1789, which country held the richest sugar colony?

France

Which of the following led Russians to migrate to Siberia?

Many were fleeing serfdom and religious persecution.

How did the trade relationship between China and Europe change in the early nineteenth century?

The balance of trade between China and Europe was reversed.

The wealth generated by the expansion in trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries led to the emergence of which of the following social groups?

The bourgeoisie

What were some of the broader consequences of the Enlightenment?

The expansion of literacy and the spread of critical thinking

Which of the following undermined both the Ottoman and Mughal Empires?

The influx of silver from the Americas created inflation, which undermined their economic autonomy.

Which of the following is a valid comparison between the American and the Saint Domingue Revolutions?

The leaders of the American Revolution were primarily owners of property, but the leaders of Saint Domingue were primarily slaves.

What invention transformed sugar refining, pottery making, and textile making?

The steam engine

In early-nineteenth-century industrial societies, why did migration to urban areas increase so rapidly?

There was a growing demand for factory workers in the cities.

The American Revolution was the first of a series of revolutions to shake the Atlantic world, inspired by new ideas of freedom.

True

In the eighteenth century, global trade was stimulated by poor people in Western Europe consuming which of the following products?

Coffee, tea, and sugar

What was a global effect of the Seven Years' War?

Great Britain emerged as the world's strongest colonial power, making it harder for indigenous people to pit European powers against one another.

Which of the following shows the early Mughal Empire's attitude toward the culture of South Asia?

Hindus and Muslims shared the flourishing of art, architecture, and music.

What was the political rationale for monarchs such as Louis XIV and Charles II to support scientific academies?

If the crown was seen to support scientific progress, the great minds of the academies would also be seen to support the crown.

Which of the following helps explain the degree of intermarriage between European men and native women in the Americas?

Initially, European colonists were overwhelmingly male.

In what way was the U.S. Declaration of Independence an Enlightenment document?

It announced that all men were endowed with equal rights.

Which of the following describes events in the Kongo kingdom in the seventeenth century?

Kidnapping became so prevalent that cultivators worked their fields bearing weapons, leaving their children behind in guarded stockades.

Which of the following accurately describes a reason cited by the colonists for the North American War of Independence?

King George III insisted that colonists help pay for Britain's war with France and for the benefits of being subjects of the British Empire.

Who benefited most from the revolutions against Spanish rule in the Americas?

Local military chieftains who formed alliances with land owners

What factor contributed most to Mexico's declaration of independence in 1821?

Loss of faith in the Spanish king's ability to rule effectively

What was the economic philosophy called that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase its wealth at the expense of another?

Mercantilism

How did the European missionary presence differ in the Americas from that in East Asia before 1800?

Missionaries to the Americas were backed up by colonial officials and military power.

Calls for political revolution in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world relied on which of the following new ideas?

Nationalism and democracy

Which of the following accurately describes global trade in the mid-nineteenth century?

People increasingly worked to produce goods they could sell in the global market instead of producing subsistence crops

In what way might the transporting of British prisoners to Australia be considered an Enlightenment concept?

Prisoners were to be removed from an environment that did not suit them and sent to a new one where they could reform

Who constituted "the people," according to political arrangements Americans made during the War of Independence?

Propertied white men

Which of the following were the most popular books published in Ming China?

Study guides for civil service examinations

Which of the following was the most lucrative source of wealth for European planters in the Americas in the seventeenth century?

Sugar

How did the Asante kingdom use its access to gold to begin its growth and development?

The Asante used their gold to buy firearms, which they used to raid neighboring communities for captives to be sold as slaves.

For what reason did the Chinese take little interest in the maps brought by Matteo Ricci?

The Chinese believed that Ricci's maps made China seem an unimportant country on the edge of the world.

Which of the following was included in 1842 Treaty of Nanjing?

The Chinese ceded the island of Hong Kong to the British

For what reason did the Dutch kill or enslave nearly the entire population of the Bandanese Islands?

The Dutch wanted to buy nutmeg at a low price in the Bandanese Islands and sell nutmeg at many times that price in Europe.

For what reason did the Tokugawa shoguns expel all foreign traders except for the Dutch?

The Dutch were Protestants and did not proselytize.

How did Dutch merchants contribute to the development of European commerce?

They established a stock exchange, a banking system, and a system for insuring cargoes.

Which of the following was a product of radical French revolutionaries who controlled the French government during the 1790s?

They established the world's largest army.

Which of the following strategies contributed to the early success of the Qing dynasty?

They presented themselves as upholders of familial values and traditional Chinese culture.

Which of the following was one of the goals of the authors of the Encyclopédie?

They sought to gather all the knowledge scattered over the face of the earth and to present it in useful form.

What was the primary goal of liberal European reformers, such as Lord Macaulay, concerning changes to India's educational and cultural systems?

To create a class that was Indian in blood but English in taste and culture

What, according to mercantilist thinkers, was the purpose of colonies?

To enrich the states that had founded them

The English colonial model in the New World differed from that of other European states in that it:

dispossessed native peoples from their lands in order to accommodate a growing English settler population.

Which of the following best describes the initial relationship that developed between French North American colonists and Amerindians?

The French relied on native peoples' knowledge of trapping and adapted to Amerindian ways.