World History Spring Final Exam 2
What were some of the environmental benefits of the epidermis in the Americas post-European migration?
Growing forests and repopulation of hunted animals
Agricultural practices in the Americas changed with the introduction of new animals and plants through the Columbian Exchange. Which of the following changed indigenous agricultural practices the most?
Horses and cattle
Why were horses so important to the Comanche Empire?
Horses became the main focus of trade for the Comanches because they could carry people and goods so much faster and farther.
After the Columbian Exchange, what American plant became a staple crop in Afro-Eurasia?
Potatoes
What were Ghanaians options when trying to avoid enslavement?
run away from their home or became slave traders themselves
The dutch east India company was seen as practically a country but without any other responsibilities of government nor accountability to the people a governed. What band was it main goal
To make money
Olaudah Equino referred to the white men on the ships as which of the following?
Cruel
The dutch east India company was unique from other trading companies that it was sponsored by the Dutch government. What benefits to the company rate from this?
Ability to wage war and control trade route
Which of the following best describes a "tributary empire" such as the Aztec?
An empire where surrounding states pay tribute (a form of taxation) to the empire to maintain their alliance
How did Mongol migration patterns affect their production and distribution?
As pastoralists, they were more likely to share the few resources they had, rather than trade with others.
In what ways was the rise of Islam related to the global network of trade known as the Silk Road?
Baghdad was an intellectual hub, and because it was connected to the Silk Road, knowledge that accumulated there was easily spread by merchants along the trading network.
Why is the relationship between capitalism and slavery have meaning today?
Because they're still debate ever whether there should be reparations and other capitalism should we create with liberating people.
What new way of dealing with money dud European banks develop-based on technology from Asia-that helped merchants move money over long distance?
Bills of Exchange
How did the Transatlantic Slave Trade affect Ghana's court systems?
Courts could send felons to be sold into slavery.
Archaeologists have found Mesopotamian tablets that have financial contracts carved into them describing how much barley must be paid back. What financial innovation does this demonstrate?
Credit and Interest
What was an effect of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa?
Demographic shifts
What was an effect of the Atlantic slave trade?
Demographic shifts
Why would historians describes the Black Death, the Great Dying, and the Atlantic slaving system as "demographic events"?
Each significantly changed the number of people living in certain regions.
What rights did free people of African descent have that enslaved individuals did not?
Free individuals were not forced laborers.
What two empires in the Americas came to an end once the Columbian Exchange began?
Inca and Aztec
Fibonacci traveled and gathered mathematical knowledge, like fractions, decimals in a zero based numeral system revolutionized European economic systems. Where did this knowledge originate?
India and Middle East
Why were the diseases introduced from migrating Europeans so deadly to indigenous communities/
Indigenous communities lacked immunity to unfamiliar diseases.
What was the devshirme system?
It was system for conscripting boys to become enslaved soldiers.
There are many well-known, massive trade routes throughout history. In what ways was the Columbian Exchange a "first"?
It was the first sustained connection of the Americas and Afro-Eurasia
Of the material provided for this lesson, what is an example of a primary source indicating that a particular religious prejudice was made worse during the Black Death.
Jewish people were falsely accused of deliberately spreading the disease, and many were executed as a result.
The goods exchanged along the Silk Road in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were mostly of what type?
Luxury items
What inconsistent do the Spanish adopt an effort to fuel their merchantilism economic system?
Mita, a structured labor system
With the Columbian Exchange, people, things, and ideas moved along expanded ______,mixing together to create new knowledge systems. What is the best word to fill the blank?
Networks
Which of the following answers best describes the most significant feature of what we call "the first global age"?
New exposure to ideas from far around the world
What appeal did the Americas have for Spanish aristocrats?
New trade partners and profitable silver mines
In addition to tribute, what was unusual but effective way that the Inca required a contribution from its people, similar to a tax?
People were required to work as laborers on construction or other projects for a portion of each year.
With the rise in demand for cash crops, what kind of farming became increasingly popular during the Columbian Exchange.
Plantation farming
With the rise in demand for cash crops, what kind of farming became increasingly popular during the Columbian Exchange?
Plantation farming
In the centuries following the start of the Columbian Exchange, why did the Atlantic slave trade grow and thrive as much as it did?
Plantations growing sugar, cotton, and other crops made huge profits on the backs of unpaid slave laborers.
When discussing the importance of sugar, tobacco, and silver in this era. all three of our frames matter. But which frame would a good historian find most relevant when discussing these goods?
Production and Distribution
What effect did the bubonic plague have on Christianity throughout most of Europe?
Proof that the church could not prevent mass deaths probably led to ideas that shaped the Protestant Reformation
Plantation owners often staffed their fields with enslaved individuals from Africa. These slaves were viewed as which of the following?
Property
Slavery was an economic endeavor, but those running the system rationalized it with which of the following?
Religion and science
Which of the following describes the formation of the Aztec Empire?
Several independent city states in the region came together, both through alliance and conquest
After Europeans first arrived in the Americas, there was one American resource they traded more and more with China, as a way to buy luxury items for Europeans. What was American resource?
Silver
What economic challenge did the Spanish empire faced due to the massive import of silver from the Americas between the 16th and 18th century?
Skyrocketing inflation
Why did Europeans enslave millions of Africans?
Slavery was a crucial part of the European economy.
What does the historian J.H.Hexter mean when he says most historians are either "lumpers" or "splitters"?
Some historians lump together all the information from a period of time to paint one broad picture, while others split things up to look at them separately.
Who or what was ultimately responsible for bringing the Inca and Aztec empires to an end?
Spanish conquistadors
Which groups of crops are examples of cash crops?
Sugar, tobacco, and cotton
Which crop is called the "poor person's staple" in China, but was not a native plant in Asia despite the belief it was?
Sweet Potatoes
While one the slave trade to the plantations , John Roland, the son of a plantation owner, kept a journal. which if the following sentiments did he express toward enslaved people?
Sympathy
Why is the Silk Road exchange network relevant when discussing the fourteenth century's devastating bubonic plague?
Thanks to the people, rats, and fleas moving along the Silk Road, the disease spread faster and farther than it would have otherwise.
How did the Atlantic Slave Trade economically impact Ghana?
The Atlantic Slave Trade hurt Ghana's economy.
What was one unique aspect of Comanche leadership?
The Comanche had many leaders who were democratically elected.
What was the purpose of the Comanche alliance with the Kiowa?
The Comanche needed support in fighting off the Spanish.
What is one reason that Dutch interest rates were significantly lower than any of the British?
The Dutch a long history of individual investment.
In what ways can the period of peace known as the Pax Mongolia be linked to the spread of the Black Death?
The Mongol Empire worked hard to increase trade over vast distances, and the disease spread along trade routes.
Which ethnic group ruled the major political states in Asia around 1300?
The Mongols
How were the Mongols involved with the spread of the Black Death?
The Mongols opened up trade paths, which brought infected fleas on rats to Europe.
What was the Mongol policy about religious freedom/
The Mongols were tolerant of different religions.
How did the Spanish colonizers relate to the Comanche?
The Spanish saw the Comanche as a problem.
What was one outcome of the Western European trading fairs, which were designed to make trade go more efficiently?
The formation of early companies
What is one reason indigenous peoples were forced to work in the minds of South America, as opposed to African slaves who were the plantations to the north?
The indigenous people were adapted to high altitudes.
Who were considered the hidden victims in the Transatlantic Slave Trade that are often overlooked and not discussed?
The individuals and families left behind
In the Philippines, what made the capital of the tiny state of Tondo-later the huge city of Manila-so profitable for the Spanish conquistadors who captured the region in the late sixteenth century/
The location was a perfect place to trade with the Chinese.
For North Americans in Era 5, what was one of the many advantages of living-and organizing networks of exchange-along river valleys and basins?
The soil was great for farming
Prior to the Columbian Exchange, what was predominantly used for long-distance transportation by indigenous Americans?
Their feet
How did the Afro-Euroasian disease such as cholera, malaria, and smallpox affect indigenous communities in the Americas?
These diseases were extremely deadly to indigenous Americans , and as a result their population was severely reduced.
As he conquered different societies, Genghis Khan included lower classes into his community and promoted people to positions of power based on merit. What did these two factors help him do?
These two factors helped him unite Mongol confederations.
How did joint-stock companies provide a solution for the high risk associated with international trade (and eventually colonialism)?
They allowed investors to share the risk.
How did the Mongol Empire affect trade and exchange across Eurasia?
They created a huge, safe , integrated, trade zone that made it easier to trade.
What role did joint-stock companies play in the colonization during the Age of Exploration and after?
They funded colonizing projects and performed colonial administration on the behalf of European governments.
How did sugar plantations negatively affect indigenous populations in America?
They introduced new diseases and displaced indigenous people.
In Era 5, what protected the Aztec Empire's central authority from its people rebelling?
They ruled by fear and maintained a rigid social hierarchy.
What is one thing the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires all had in common?
They were all of Turkic background
What do the Comanche and the Mongols have in common
They were both nomadic societies.
What role did enslaved people primarily play in the Ottoman,the Safavid, and the Mughal Empires?
They were part of the military and administration.
What crop did Europeans "discover" in the Americas that become both popular and destructive in Afro-Eurasia?
Tobacco
While Europeans brought multiple diseases tot the Americas, what disease was brought back to Europe from the Americas?
Venereal Syphilis
After the abolition of the slave trade, what kind of transatlantic migration became predominant/
Voluntary migration
After the abolition of the slave trade, what kind of transatlantic migration became predominant?
Voluntary migration
Other than trade, what is the most common way diseases traveled prior to the sixteenth century?
War
What negative effects on the American ecosystem were directly caused by the introduction of European crops and animals?
Whole habitats and indigenous plant species were killed off or badly damaged.
Which of the following was the result of mass cultivation of cash crops in the Americas?
more monoculture
Which crop is called the "poor person's staple" in China, but was not a native plant in Asia despite the belief it was?
sweet potatoes
How did sugar plantations negatively affect indigenous populations in America?
they introduced new diseases and displaced indigenous people.
