Chapter 12 Quiz - World Civ
In Ming China, where did women find the greatest opportunities to obtain wealth and influence?
As healers, consorts, and power brokers in the Forbidden City
Which of the following allowed the Spanish to defeat both the Aztec and Inca Empires?
Both empires suffered from internal weakness and divisions that were exploited by the Spanish.
What was a similarity between the Ming and the Mughal dynasties?
Both were able to limit European traders to port cities.
Which of the following is a difference between Martin Luther's and Jean Calvin's beliefs?
Calvin, unlike Luther, emphasized the doctrine of predestination.
Which of the following was a way in which the spread of Protestant beliefs contributed to protracted warfare in Europe between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?
Common people took up arms to defend their religious beliefs and practices instead of leaving warfare to professional soldiers.
Newfound expertise with the compass and astrolabe allowed Portuguese navigators to:
Determine latitude
The Protestant Reformation encouraged the growth of nationalism in Europe by encouraging people to:
Identify their religion with their local state and language.
What advantage was provided by the English East India Company's royal charter?
It gave exclusive rights to import East Indian goods into England.
Which of the following sparked Martin Luther's challenge to the Catholic Church?
Luther was disgusted with corrupt church practices such as the selling of indulgences.
In what way did the Spanish capture of Manila in 1571 inaugurate the first worldwide trade circuit?
Manila gave the Spanish a base to trade silver from the Americas to China, and then Chinese goods to Europe.
What was Europe's main contribution to the Atlantic system?
Military Technology
Why was it necessary to continue to import large numbers of African slaves to replenish labor on sugar plantations?
Most of the slaves were men, who suffered high mortality rates due to overwork and poor conditions.
Which group dominated the Indian Ocean trade in the fifteenth century?
Muslims
In the early sixteenth century, which of the following contributed to the Aztecs' constant warfare?
The Aztecs wanted to extract tribute and take war captives to sacrifice to their gods.
In the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church responded to the challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation in which of the following ways?
The Church sought to reform clerical corruption.
Which of the following characterized the Portuguese presence in sixteenth-century Macao?
The Portuguese used Macao as an entry into the lucrative import-export trade with China.
Which of the following was an important effect of the Ottoman conquest of Syria and Egypt?
The conquest created a Muslim majority, allowing Ottoman sultans to see themselves as heirs of previous Muslim states that had ruled over the region.
What circumstance permitted the English and Dutch to expand their trade in Asia and the Americas?
They took advantage of Spain's bankruptcy caused by religious and dynastic wars.
Why were the Portuguese and other Europeans motivated to find new routes to Asia?
They were responding to the conquest of Constantinople and the rise of Ottoman power in the Mediterranean.
Which of the following best summarizes the goals of Spanish explorers such as Columbus?
To Christianize the world and accumulate wealth.
