Time Period 2 MCQ Review
All of the following have been African contributions to cultures in the Americas EXCEPT
African monetary systems
Which of the following accurately describes the effect of the spread of Christianity among most Amerindian societies after 1500 C.E.?
Amerindians maintained local customs by combining indigenous beliefs with elements of Christianity.
Which of the following best describes Alfred Crosby's argument in the passage above?
Amerindians' long isolation from the rest of the world had placed them at a biological disadvantage.
Which of the following best describes the relationship that the Chinese and Aztec empires had with their respective peripheral states during the fifteenth century C.E.?
Both empires established tributary relationships with their peripheral states.
The photograph above of a sixteenth-century Mughal mosque in India built by Akbar is an example of which of the following?
Cultural syncretism
Which of the following consequences of the Columbian Exchange most affected Amerindians in the sixteenth century?
Diseases caused pandemics.
The passage above is best understood in the context of which of the following?
European monarchs' continued use of religion to legitimize political authority
Which of the following describes a major cause of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
Exploitation of artillery and small arms gave the Ottomans advantages over many of their political rivals.
All of the following statements about Du Halde are factually accurate. Which would most likely lead historians to question the objectivity of his portrayal of the scholars shown in the image?
He was a Jesuit and based his book on Jesuit missionary reports.
A historian examining Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century would best utilize the sources above to analyze which of the following topics?
How Christian ideas were communicated to and understood by Amerindians
For the period circa 1650-1790, the differences between clove prices in Southeast Asia and those in Amsterdam best support which of the following conclusions?
Imperialism economically benefited European merchants and governments while leading to the economic decline or stagnation of Asian producers.
Which of the following explains the most common effect that the process illustrated in the image had on relationships between states in Afro-Eurasia in the period 1450-1750 ?
It led to deepening rivalries and conflicts as states' military capabilities grew.
Source 2 indicates that all of the following were likely factors contributing to Sikhism's popularity in India EXCEPT:
It offered a set of principles around which all Indians could rally in resisting British imperial encroachment
Which of the following claims that Barkey makes in the passage appears to contradict most directly her assertion in the first sentence of the first paragraph?
Non-Muslims were second-class citizens who endured prejudice.
In the excerpt, Bolívar expresses which of the following?
Outrage at the effects of mercantilist policies
The map above illustrates which of the following?
Predominant areas of origin and destinations of African slaves in the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries
Which of the following would best support the conclusion that the Columbian Exchange involved more profound consequences than did earlier biological exchanges in world history?
Previous exchanges did not involve the world's two hemispheres.
Which of the following best explains the process illustrated in the image?
States used gunpowder weapons to establish large empires.
The trade illustrated by the map contributed most directly to which of the following?
The Haitian Revolution
All of the following statements about the Ottoman Empire in the period 1450-1750 are factually accurate. Which would most strongly support Barkey's claim regarding the Ottoman state and toleration in the passage?
The Ottoman army increasingly relied on the contributions of the Janissary corps, which was mostly composed of soldiers of non-Turkic origin.
Which of the following accurately describes a significant difference between the Ottoman and Mughal Empires in the early seventeenth century?
The Ottomans ruled over people who were predominately Muslim, while the Mughals did not.
Which of the following developments in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries most directly helps to explain the presence of the scholars shown in the image of China?
The Protestant Reformation led the Catholic Church to seek new converts outside of Europe.
Which of the following long-term changes in the period circa 1550-1700 best demonstrates that the actions described by de Estete in the passage failed to fully achieve their goals?
The emergence of syncretic religious practices in the Americas
Which of the following developments in the period 1450-1750 would a historian most likely cite to support Barkey's claim regarding the Ottoman Empire and its predecessors and contemporaries in the first sentence of the second paragraph?
The establishment of racial categories of social hierarchy under the casta system in Spanish colonies in the Americas
The portrait of Emperor Jahangir in Image 1 was most likely a symbolic representation of which of the following?
The expanding power of the Mughal Empire
The dispute described in the court case is most directly an effect of which of the following processes in colonial American societies?
The formation of new identities as part of the restructuring of social hierarchies
The activities of Inez de Leyria's father as described in the passage best support which of the following conclusions about the period 1450-1750 C.E.?
The intensification of commercial and diplomatic activity across Eurasia was accompanied by increased missionary activity.
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the way Khubilai Khan chose to have himself portrayed in the painting?
The nomadic tradition depicted in the painting would bolster Khubilai Khan's claim to be the legitimate successor to Genghis Khan.
Which of the following best exemplifies mercantilism as it was practiced in the Atlantic trading system by 1750 ?
The protection of European merchant companies by their respective governments
Which of the following factors contributed most to Manchu expansion in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
The use of cannons and gunpowder
Which of the following was an important continuity from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing dynasty in the seventeenth century?
The use of the examination system and other Confucian bureaucratic practices
From 1400 to 1750, Eurasian rulers sponsored the arts primarily for which of the following reasons?
To display power and legitimize their rule
Which of the following best describes patriarchal gender systems?
Women are inferiors and must be protected by men.
The judge's decision in the case is best understood in the context of colonial authorities' policy of
ensuring that intercommunal conflicts were brought under control before they could disrupt public order
Most agricultural laborers in the Ottoman Empire were
free peasants
A historian could best explain the arguments made in the passage regarding the pope and the clergy in the context of Protestant claims that the Catholic Church
had become corrupted by power
The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by
increased production of cash crops like sugar
The spread of new cultural ideas, such as those illustrated by the religious beliefs of Xu Guangxi and Candida Xu, most strongly encouraged some Asian governments in Eurasia in the period 1450-1750 to
limit trade and other contacts with foreigners
A historian interpreting the passage would most likely explain that the audience of the sermon is an illustration of the fact that
political support from the German nobility aided in the development of the early Protestant community
A historian interpreting the views expressed in the passage would likely explain that those views were most strongly influenced by Protestant desires to
reform Christian society by adhering more closely to Biblical teachings
The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by the expansion in the production of
sugar
The methods of warfare shown in the image were instrumental in explaining the territorial expansion of all of the following land-based empires EXCEPT
the Aztec (Mexica) Empire
The economies of the southern colonies of colonial British America developed most like colonial economies in
the Caribbean and Brazil
During the seventeenth century, one of the reasons Africans participated in the Atlantic slave trade was
the demand for weapons among African elites
All of the following resulted from the growth of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa EXCEPT
the exclusion of Africa from the emerging global market