Ch 13

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 was a consequence of the Thirty Years' War?

Central Europe's populations and economies did not recover for more than a century.

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.

Under the French model of absolutism, to whom was the king accountable?

God

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

The Dutch were Protestants and did not proselytize

Which of the following was a consequence of the political and economic disorder in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century?

The Mamluks in Egypt asserted political and commercial autonomy.

Why can historians claim that Mughal rulers were victims of their own success?

The combination of prosperity and dependence on local elites for governance allowed the local elites to become more autonomous.

Which of the following was the most common way that African slaves in the Americas resisted the conditions of their enslavement?

Thousands of slaves fled to the remote interiors of Brazil or the Caribbean islands.

The Tokugawa shogunate, unlike many other states in the seventeenth century, regulated foreign intrusion and managed to remain free of outside exploitation.

True

Which of the following was a consequence of the fact that European buyers preferred male slaves?

Gender imbalance in the Americas contributed to the continuation of the transatlantic slave trade.