HIS 112 exam practice

On which of the following premises does the concept of popular sovereignty depend?

A nation is a people sharing a common culture, language, and history.

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

Africans

What was the primary reason for the rapid increase in the importation of Africans in sixteenth-century Brazil and the Caribbean?

Africans were used as labor for sugar plantations.

What did the Spanish use as a model for obtaining Amerindian labor for colonial mines?

Aztec and Incan practices that demanded labor from conquered villages

Which of the following accurately describes the role of silver in early seventeenth-century China?

China increasingly relied on the global trading system for silver, making the Chinese economy vulnerable to dislocation.

The Columbian Exchange led to which of the following?

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

Which of the following was the determinative factor in the Spaniards' conquest of the Aztecs?

European diseases spread rapidly among the Aztec warriors and elites.

Which of the following groups benefited most from the wealth generated by the Atlantic system?

European elites

Which of the following actions was undertaken by Muhammad Ali to attempt to create the most powerful state in the eastern Mediterranean?

He deepened irrigation canals and constructed a series of dams across the Nile.

Which of the following shows the early Mughal Empire's attitude toward the culture of South Asia?

Hindus and Muslims shared the flourishing of art, architecture, and music.

Which of the following helps explain the degree of intermarriage between European men and native women in the Americas?

Initially, European colonists were overwhelmingly male.

What was Egypt's main significance within the Ottoman Empire?

It served as the Ottomans' breadbasket, providing Istanbul with the largest revenue stream of any province.

Which of the following accurately describes global trade in the mid-nineteenth century?

People increasingly worked to produce goods that they could sell in the global market instead of producing subsistence crops.

Francis Bacon's method of scientific inquiry asserted which of the following?

Real science entailed the formulation of hypotheses that could be tested in carefully controlled experiments.

How did the Asante kingdom use its access to gold to begin its growth and development?

The Asante used their gold to buy firearms, which they used to raid neighboring communities for captives to be sold as slaves.

For what reason did the Dutch kill or enslave nearly the entire population of the Banda Islands?

The Dutch wanted to buy nutmeg at a low price in the Banda Islands and sell nutmeg at many times that price in Europe.

Which of the following was a consequence of the political and economic disorder in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century?

The Mamluks in Egypt asserted political and commercial autonomy.

Which of the following is a way that the English Navigation Act of 1651 promoted the economic policy of mercantilism?

The act stipulated that only English ships could carry goods between the mother country and its colonies.

Why can historians claim that Mughal rulers were victims of their own success?

The combination of prosperity and dependence on local elites for governance allowed the local elites to become more autonomous.

Which of the following is a valid comparison between the American and the Saint-Domingue Revolutions?

The leaders of the American Revolution were primarily owners of property whereas the leaders of Saint-Domingue were primarily slaves.

What did the groups that led the 1848 revolutions in Europe have in common?

They shared a desire for independent nations and to overthrow the existing elites.

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.

Why were women especially drawn to Fourier's proposed reforms?

Women longed for a way to address the social problems of poverty, prostitution, and the exploitation of workers.

How did nationalist thinkers define "the nation"?

in terms of a common language, culture, and history

The impetus of Mohammad Ibn al-Wahhab's Islamic reform movement was a reaction to which of the following?

polytheistic beliefs that had taken root among some Muslims

Which of Thomas Paine's ideas contributed to the basis of the Declaration of Independence?

popular sovereignty

Which of the following was a common factor in the Shawnee, Maya, and Taiping rebellions?

prophecy and charismatic leadership

What type of significant artwork was produced by the Oyo Empire and Benin?

sophisticated bronzes

Which document resulted from elite Americans' fear that their revolution was becoming too radical and threatened to plunge the nation into anarchy?

the Constitution

Wahhabi Islam was a direct threat to the political power of which of the following?

the Ottoman Empire

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

the belief that the source of religious knowledge lay in the Scriptures

The wealth generated by the expansion in trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries led to the emergence of which of the following social groups?

the bourgeoisie

What were some of the long-term consequences of the Enlightenment in the West?

the expansion of literacy and the spread of critical thinking.

Viewed collectively, the actions of rebels and dissidents in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reflected which of the following?

their dislike of capitalism, nationalism, and colonialism

What was Portugal's primary goal in the Indian Ocean trade?

to exploit Asian commercial networks and trading systems