World History Midterm

The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to immigrate by

1492

By the second half of the 16th century, the ottoman empire was a vast multi ethnic in multi religious state of some — — inhabitants

15 Million

Martin Luther protested the sale of indulgences in with 95 thesis address to the archbishop

1517

Of the approximately 144,000 estimated Native Americans in New England in 1600, fewer than 15,000 remained by

1620

In many places, the _____-mile Incan road network still exists today.

25,000

Buy some estimates, there were more ___ Slave uprising's involving 10 or more slaves during the fourth centuries of Atlantic slavery

250

An estimated __ Spaniards immigrated from Europe to the Americas between 1500 and 1800

300,000

With ___ inhabitants in the 16th century, the capital of Kongo, M'banza What is comparable in size to many European cities at the time

60,000

All of the following are true about the use of a quipu by the Incas except

700 of them have been deciphered and translated

The most prominent of the small Maya states, Chichen Itza in the northern lowlands, flourished from about

850-1000

Tenochtitlain was

A city established on one of the islands in the Valley of Mexico

Pulque was

A fermented drink made from the pulp of the maguey plants

The Jewish community of __ excommunicated Baruch Spinoza for Hershey, since he seem to make God immanent in the world

Amsterdam

Portable water was made available in the Tenochiltian by means of:

An adequate that arrived on one of the western causeways

In "chattel" Slavery, the slave is, in legal terms

An item of movable personal property

It is possible that imperial propaganda machines in the Aztec and Inca Empires, similar to those of the ______ and Mongols in Eurasia attempted to intimidate their enemies through tales of brutal treatment.

Assyrians

A mathematician and assistant of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli experimented with mercury filled tubes to lay the groundwork for the first

Barometer

On St __ day in August 1572, the catholic king and aristocracy of French perpetuated a wholesale slaughter of thousands of Huguenots

Bartholomew

The ruler Ewuare what's the first to rise to dominance Over Chiefs and assume the title of king

Benin

From the middle of the 17th century, the pueblos de Indios were fully functional, self administering units, with councils, __, churches, schools, communal lands, and family Parcels

Cabildos

Acquiring wealth with the help of money in there by perhaps getting a glimpse of one's fate became one of the hallmarks of

Calvinism

— inherited Habsburg territories Throughout Europe and the Inca in the Aztec empire in the Americas where he became emperor in 1516

Charles V

Aztec farmers constructed soil islands in Lake Texcoco called _________ and grew corn, beans, squash, and other vegetables on them.

Chinampas

In his preface, Cervantes claimed he had written Don Quixote of La Mancha to "indicate the absurdity" of notions of — —

Chivalry

The Ottomans benefited from the trade of new commodity, —, which was produced in Ethiopia and Yemen

Coffee

The southern Peruvian city-state of____ with its Inca elite, emerged in the early 15th century at the head of the highly militaristic, conquering polity

Cuzco

Coffeehouse is allowed the literate urban public to meet, read __ and exchange ideas

Daily newspapers

As part of the African ___, Africans move to nearly all parts of the Americas primarily as a result of the transatlantic slave trade

Diaspora

The Columbian exchange characterizes the transfer of plants, animals, and __ Between the Americas and the rest of the world

Diseases

Spain refused to recognize the __ united provinces of the republic until 1648

Dutch

The Spanish quest for mythical __ Or Golden city was fruitless

El Dorado

By means of land labor grants called __, Spanish entrepreneurs are entitled to use forced indigenous or imported slave labor to exploit natural resources in the New World

Encomiendas

To support the mining centers in administrative cities, the Spanish colonial government __ The development of agricultural estates (haciendas)

Encouraged

Conquistadors Francisco Pizarro, Herman Cortes and Alonso Ortiz all Originated in the Spanish region of

Esrremadura

Around 1750, there were about 10,000 Boers (Dutch for ____) in the Cape colony, easily outnumbered by slaves.

Farmers

In Tiwanaku society, llamas were used as transportation animals and as a _______.

Food source

After selection for the service, female Inca would generally spend _____years with the "House of the Chosen Women."

Four

Because __ universities in scientific academies refuse to admit women, in contrast to their counterparts in other countries, the salon became a bastion of well-placed and respected female scholars

French

Renaissance thinkers an artist considered their period of time rebirth ( the literal meaning of the word in the __ language)

French

The most successful __ settlement in North America was the subtropical district at the mouth of the Mississippi river in what is now Louisiana, where some 300 settlers in 4000 African slaves founded sugar plantations

French

Despite his appearance in the city in 1536, it was well into the 1550s before John Calvin's form of protestantism is him prevailed in

Geneva

After defeat of the songhey, Much of the Trans-Siberian gold trade was siphoned off by the Portuguese on what became known as the gold coast (modern __)

Ghana

Brazil produce a total of 1000 tons of __ in the 18th century, a welcomed Bonaza for Portugal at a time of lo agricultural prices

Gold

Beginning in the 1990s and on the basis of study of terra preta, scholars proposed that indigenous peoples in the Amazonian rainforests.

Had employed slash and char techniques, reducing trees to nutrient-rich charcoal.

In the 15th century, more than——- of the people in the Mexican Basic lived in cities like Tenochiltian

Half

Although they were under frequent attack by the songhey and Kanem-Bornu during theperiod 1500-1800, the ___ Kingdoms enjoyed periods of independence during which many of the ruling clans converted to Islam

Hausa

An expedition sent out the Portuguese king —the navigator captured the city of Ceuta on the north African coast in 1415

Henry

Leading a motley force i'm about 530 Spanish men, __ defeated a much larger indigenous force at Tabasco in 1518.

Herman Cortes

A member of the ___ Family of rulers, Frederick second the great of Prussia enlarged his army and pursued in aggressive foreign-policy

Hohenzolism

The unequal relations between Tutsi cattle breeders and ___ farmers froze into a caste System during the 19th century colonial occupation

Hutu

Barbados We're settled initially in 1627 by English planters, who grew tobacco, cotton, indigo, and ginger, employing English and Irish

Indentured slaves

In 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to

India

As a proponent of Coperican Helios centrism, Galileo seem to contradict the passage in the Hebrew Bible book of __ in which God stops the sun in the sky for a day

Joshua

Copernicus began his studies at the University of __, the only eastern European school to offer courses in astronomy

Krakow

After being kidnapped by Christian pirates, Al Hasan lbn Muhammed al-Wazzan was baptized under the name of pope—

Leo X

Fight in the eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Christians won the battle of — — thanks to their superior naval tactics

Lepanto

Having laid waste to Cusco, Pizarro founded a new Andean capital at __ in 1535

Lima

The portolan (nautical chart) drawn by Pedro Reinel is the earliest known map to include

Lines of latitude

By the late 13th and early 14th centuries, native shipwrights and their teachers from Genoa teamed up in the port of — —to develop new ships suited to the stormy Atlantic

Lisbon

In 1649, a group of 70 mostly landless farmers and day laborers occupied common land about 25 miles south of __ and set up a communal farm there

London

Towards the first half of the 15th century, the Ottoman sultan is equipped their Janissaries with cannons and

Muskets

Around 900, migrants speaking the language——- arrived in the vicinity of the collapsed teotihuacan

Nehuatl

Juana Ines de la Cruz secretly studied Latin, Greek and __ in her maternal grandfather's library

Nuhuatl

The resourceful queen ____ of Ndongo sometimes Negotiated with the Portuguese in fire grill campaign against them at others

Nzinga

The Aztecs created an imperial policy from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Tarasco 200 miles to the NW of

Oaxaca

The chacmool or —— can be found in several Mesoamerican sites as far as Tenochitirlian and Tula

Offering table

The memoir of a former slave and abolitionist___ would help push the movement of the liberating slaves forward in the 19th century

Olaudah Equiano

The term casta originated in the desire of the Iberian and Creole Settlers to draw distinctions among degrees of

Racial mixture

In the 1540s, the Spanish government introduced __ called repartimientos which was a continuation of the mit'a system devised by the Inca for taxation

Rotating labor assignments

The Danish mariner Peter Vaughan sivers rose to the position of admiral in the __ fleet

Russian

In the 1400s, Portuguese Mariners rated the west African coast in the ___Region for slaves

Senegambia

After staying three months on the first Bahaman island he found, Christopher Columbus returned to Iberia with — and a small quantity of gold

Seven captured Caribbean islanders

The karagoz was a

Shadow puppet theatre

The Shehzade and Suley mosques in Istanbul and the Selimiye mosque in Edirine were designed by

Sinan

Stationary theaters with stages, main floors, balconies, and boxes appeared in the main cities of Spain during the — century

Sixteenth

The final provinces added to the Inca empire in the ____ century, were in northern Ecuador as well as on the Eastern slopes of the Andes

Sixteenth

In the 17th century, the process of manumission was:

Sometimes followed by the freed mans acquisition of his own slaves.

An example of creole language that has survived for centuries in Gullah, used by the isolated communities along the coastal islands of Georgia and ___

South Carolina

___ Was the only north American colony, and later state, in which African Americans outnumber those of European dissent

South Carolina

The Pueblo cultures, in today's —— were based on sophisticated irrigated farming systems and are known for their distinctive painted pottery styles

SouthWestern United States

Mercantilist Economic theory dictates that

States should keep their economies blocked off from competitors and import a little and export as much as possible

When the city of __ was captured in November 15 19, the emperor Moctezuma II what is forced to swear allegiance to Emperor Charles V

Tenichtitlan

Growing to the city of 30,000 inhabitants by the seventh century, Wari enlarged its agricultural base through the expansion of—-

Terrance Farming

Towards the first half of the 15th century, the Ottoman sultan is equipped their Janissaries with cannons and

Topkapi Palace

The Atlantic system or the ___ Trade connected the American colonies with Africa and Europe

Triangular

Mehmet II besieged and Conquered Constantinople within — in 1453

Two months

Portuguese colonial cities and Jesuits Repeatedly crashed over the__ Of the pioneers into the Brazilian interior

slave raids

Humanism was an intellectual movement focused on human culture, in such fields as philosophy, philology and literature based on the corpus of __ text

Greek and Roman

Despite the appearance of his beaming benevolence at Versailles, the absolutists rule of __ what is a complex mixture of centralized and decentralized forces

Louis XIV

The main goal of Gustavus II Adolphus' intervention in the 30 years war was the creation of Swedish __ centralized state around the Baltic Sea

Lutheran

The El Escorial palace complex was built by Juan Bautista de Toledo in

Madrid

Isaac newtons __ principles of natural philosophy, published in 1687, what is the towering achievement of the new sciences

Mathematical

In the course of his 14th century journeys, Ibn Battuta passed through western Anatolia and Constantinople and was impressed by the rising power of —

Ottomans

Privateers were individual entrepreneurs who were virtually indistinguishable

Pirates

"Auto-da-fe" means "act of faith" in the — language

Portuguese

Between 1434 and 1472, three combination of private and public expeditions, ___ Mariners explored the African coast as far east as the bright of Benin

Portuguese

Towards the middle of the 15th century, Aztec rulers set up a military school system for the sons of the elite plus the commoners who were to become

Priests

A Native American reported and parents of our lady of __ in 1531, in a place where the native Goddess Tonantizin used to be venerated

Guadalupe

By the early 17th century, a powerful elite of Spanish who, __ called Creoles, wasn't a place to assist the Spanish administrators

Had been born in the Americas

___ What is the first institution of higher learning in North America, devoted to teaching the correct balanced Calvinist Protestantism

Harvard college