gps test 3

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, what was the average life expectancy of an African slave brought to the Caribbean?

3 years

What percent of the Amerindian population was killed by Afro-Eurasian diseases during the sixteenth century?

90%

In what way was the principality of Moscow similar to both Japan and China in this period

All three used territorial expansion and commercial networks to consolidate state power

Who was the Christian bishop who argued that the "City of God" was represented by the universal Catholic Church?

Augustine of Hippo

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 was a consequence of the Thirty Years' War?

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

The Columbian Exchange led to which of the following?

Corn (maize) replaced some traditional crops in China and Africa.

What environmental change is credited with forcing pastoral peoples and plague-bearing rodents into closer contact with settled agricultural villages?

Drought in the central Asian steppe borderlands

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

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 was used by Tokugawa Ieyasu to secure relative peace, which lasted for two centuries after his death

He declared himself shogun and established a hereditary system of succession

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

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

It announced that all men were endowed with equal rights

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 is an accurate description of life in the Tang capital Chang'an?

It had a large foreign population, including Christians, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians

What led European countries other than Spain and Portugal to turn to cultivation in order to extract wealth from their American colonies?

Little mineral wealth was found in the English, French, or Dutch colonies

Which areas of the Americas produced the bulk of the silver that fueled global commerce in the sixteenth century?

Mesoamerica and the Andes

Which of the following was the most important factor in the rise of the Ottoman Empire?

Mongol forays into Anatolia destabilized the region

What actions did Ottoman officials take to assist the caravan trade transporting goods from China to the Ottoman heartland?

Officials established caravan series for travelers' refreshment and protection

Which of the following statements is supported by John Locke's notion of the tabula rasa?

People should be free to rise in society according to their talents.

What technological advantage led to the Vikings' successful conquests and trade?

Sophisticated ships that could travel up rivers and across open ocean waters

The Prophet Muhammad had many components to his teaching: which of the following best represents the central idea (the most important) of those components?

That the Day of Judgment was imminent

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

Which of the following demonstrates the relationship between the Silla state in Korea and the Tang Empire?

The Silla modeled their capital city on the Tang capital at Chang'an

Which of the following beliefs was shared by Luther and Calvin?

The belief that the source of religious knowledge lay in the scriptures

What was the benefit to the Spanish crown of an encomienda?

The crown received special taxes on the extraction of precious metals from the encomenderos.

What were some of the broader consequences of the Enlightenment?

The expansion of literacy and the spread of critical thinking

Who, according to the Sunnis, should succeed the Prophet?

The four rightly guided caliphs and then the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties

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

What was the impact of the Five Pillars of Islam on regional political structures?

They created a doctrinal and legal structure for the empire

Why did the Vikings fail spectacularly when they attacked Constantinople?

They faced, for the first time, a city defended by well-engineered late Roman walls and Greek fire

How did Captain Cook's voyages to Australia reflect Enlightenment ideas?

They included scientists to describe and classify Australia's fauna, flora, people, and natural features

Which of the following accurately describes the Vikings?

They opened a trading link between the Baltic and Kiev, creating a commercial avenue from Scandinavia to Baghdad

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

During the sixteenth century, to what use did Mughals put their increased global and local commerce?

They used the resources to glorify their court's architecture and art

Which of the following factors led to China's economic expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Thriving and elaborate internal trade networks

How did Europe's cultural exchanges with the Americas and the Pacific compare with its exchanges with China and the Islamic world?

Unlike cultures in China and the Islamic world, indigenous cultures in the Americas and the Pacific were undermined by contact with Europeans.

Which of the following factors made the Safavid Empire the most unstable of the large Muslim states

Weak rulers and internal divisions

Which group of people was consigned to the bottom of Linnaeus's classification of people

africans

To project imperial power and grandeur, the Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty:

constructed the forbidden city

In the fourteenth century, political stabilization in southern Europe was aided by

economic growth through sea trade with southwest Asia

The Ming Dynasty's administrative and economic difficulties were evidenced by

failure to respond effectively to natural disasters

Art in Renaissance Europe, Ming China, and the Ottoman Empire challenged the authority of traditional political and religious elites

false

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

false

Following the Council of Trent, the Cistercians sent missionaries to the Americas, India, Japan, and China.

false

In Japan, the Yamato clan established its legitimacy by stamping out ancestor worship and establishing Daoism in the Japanese islands.

false

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

false

The Mughal dynasty made a successful effort to develop a naval presence in the Indian Ocean to forestall the growing European influence in the region

false

The bureaucratic structure of the Ottoman Empire was much more extensive than that of the Ming dynasty

false

The movement of the Chinese capital from Nanjing to Beijing weakened the Chinese economy.

false

The number of Africans sold into captivity in the Atlantic slave trade far exceeded that in the Muslim slave trade.

false

While the Ming, the Ottomans, and the Iberian kingdoms all acquired territory through military conquest, only the Ottomans and the Ming also pursued state-sponsored naval expansionism

false

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

god

In Spain, a strong dynasty was created primarily through:

marriage

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

What was the primary export commodity traded by the Franks?

slaves

The group that eventually drove the Mongols out of China was known as

the Red Turbans

The Ottoman Empire conquered and absorbed much of what Christian power?

the byzantine empire

Which of the following is often seen as the epitome of the blending of Persian, Islamic, and Indian traditions?

the taj mahal

Islam supplanted family, clan, and tribal communities and created a new community of believers that was called:

the umma

Both Islam and Christianity are universalizing religions, but Islam united religious and secular authority while Christianity at first opposed the state's power.

true

In China, the economy's increasing commercialization helped weaken government controls on what could be printed

true

In Europe, political stabilization following the Black Death occurred fastest in the south, where kingdoms, city, and states enjoyed easy access to trade with the Southwest Asia

true

In both Europe and China, the Black Death led to the rise of radical religious groups that spoke of impending doom

true

In general, English colonists had a much more antagonistic relationship with Indians in North America than did French colonists.

true

In the Christian West, the inheritor of the mantle of the Roman Empire was the Catholic Church.

true

Japan, unlike Asian land-based empires, embraced outside influences that could be put to good use

true

The Ottoman Empire was more ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse than any previous Muslim state

true

The Tang dynasty made knowledge of classical Chinese and Confucianism the primary route to power and the means for uniting the Chinese state by establishing a civil service examination system that tested candidates in their literary skills and knowledge of the Confucian classics.

true

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

true

The experience of conquering the Aztec Empire taught the Spanish that effective conquest had to be accomplished quickly, completely destroying indigenous symbols of legitimate authority.

true

From where did the Europeans get the model of sugar cane production used in their American colonies?

west africa