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This movement's slogan, sonno joi, meant

"Honor the emperor, expel the barbarian!"

this Spaniards silver mining innovation, facilitated extraction of silver through he use mercury

"patio" method

the french section of Hispaniola produced how much of the world's coffee and sugar at the time of the french revolution

1/2

The Majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by

1492

All of the following are true of the use of quipu by the incas except

700 of them have been deciphered and translated

this was a primary target of english privateers, carried silver from Mexico to China annually and returned laden with Chinese silks, porcelain and lacquerware:

Acapulco-Manila treasure fleet

Potable water was made available in Tenochititlan by means of

An aqueduct that arrived on one of the western causeways

all of the following are true of the Americas soon after the Spanish arrived EXCEPT

As many Europeans died from American diseases as Americans from European diseases

during the period between the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, China's population was reduced from about 100 milion to about 60 million by

Banditry, fighting, and lingering effects of the Black Death

although the precise number of Africans transported to the Americans in the slave trade is difficult to determine, nearly half of the total were sent to

Brazil

A small and slender 60-foot-long ship with a stern rudder, square and lateen sails, and a magnetic compass (of Chinese origin) was called

Caravel

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

Coffee

Sultan adb, Ihamit used the Russian Ottoman war of 1877-1878 as an excuse to

Dismiss the Ottoman Parliament and rule by decree

this man invented a machine which could behead a victim "painlessly" and he later changed his own name to elude association with its use

Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin

these labor land-grants entitled Spanish entrepreneurs to use forced indigenous or imported slave labor to exploit natural resources in the New World

Encomiendas

During the period betweet 1774 and 1808, the Ottoman empire suffered humiliation when they were defeated by the British Opium war

False

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

False

While borrowing heavily from the United States and British models, Ito Hirobumi's Constitution drew most heavily from the constitution of

Germany

the Japanese occupation of Manchurias Liaodong Peninsula in the 1890s was opposed by the triple intervention, an alliance of all the following european countries except

Great Britain

Aurangzeb spent much of the last two decades of his life campaigning against the

Hindu Marathas

Akbar married the Rajput princess Manmati, despite her adherence to

Hinduism

akbar married the Rajput princess Manmati, despite her adherence to

Hinduism

this mughal ruler reimposed the hated jizya tax on non-Muslums, which had been abolished by Akbar

Khurram X

After being kidnapped by Christian pirates, Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammas al Wazzan was baptized under the name of pope

Leo X

The pattern of settlement in North America in the seventeenth century followed the trail of French, English and Dutch

Marchant investors

This commander of an American fleet arrived in Japan in July 1853, deliberately attempting to impress the Japanese with Western technological might

Mathew Perry

this constitution was promulgated in 1889 and remained in force in Japan until it was supplanted by a constitution composed by Allied occupations forces after world war II

Meiji

mexican independence came in 1821 with a compromise established in part by Vincente Guerrero, whose father was a

Mestizo

Around 900, migrants speaking this language arrived in the vicinity of the collapsed Teotihuacan

Nahuatl

two leaders who led the Manchus to military might by the seventeenth century were

Nurchachi and Abahai

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

Ottomans

Toward the middle of the fifteenth century, Aztec rulers set up a military school system for the sons of the elite plus those commoners who were to become

Priests

in 1792, an attempt at reform was initiated, which the Ottomans called the iNew Order,î and its main aim was to

Reorganize the army and provide greater training for officers

The Shimabara Rebels were largely

Samurai and Japanese Christians

both the American and French revolutions were outgrowths of the enlightenment and

Seven years war

this mughal emperor turned the running of his empire over to his wife, the striking Persian princess Nur Jakan, on several occassions, and she mediated the succession wars after his death

Shan JahanX

Akbar wore his hair long under his turban like the

Sikhs

Portuguese colonial cities and Jesuits repeatedly clashed over these actions of the "pioneers" into the Brazilian interior

Slave raids

an African empire during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Songhay

The city of Cahokia (650-1400) was a ceremonial center for the Mississippi cultures of North America, and it was located near current day city of

St. Louis

The Incas built tens of thousands of these everywhere in their empire, requiring subjects to supply the nearest one in their vicinity

Storehouses

which rebellion began in 1851 and was led by Hong Xiuquan and his Christian-influenced declarations?

Taiping

the capitol city of the Aztec empire was called

Tenochtitlan

Ignorant of Hinduism when he arrived in India, Vasco da Gama mistook the Indian religion for

The Christianity of "Prester John"

In the Crimean War

The Ottoman Empire, France, and Great Britain allied against Russia

Among the Enlightenment-inspired reforms of Alexander I was

The liberation of serfs in Russia's Baltic provinces

this treat between the Chinese and the British in 1842 marked the first of the century's "unequal treates" that would be imposed throughout eat Asia by European powers

Treaty of Nanjing

Pulque was a fermented drink made from the pulp of the maguey plant

True

the word tanzimat refers to a series of reforms inspired by Western European constitutional nationalism

True

The incans did all of the following with their mummies (mallquis) except

Using them to terrorize armies

During the first three decades of the sixteenth century, which of the following was NOT a pressing issue plaguing Emperor Charles V?

War with England

"Creole" cultures emerge

When two or more distinct cultures exist in proximity and absorb influences from each other

which of the following is the proper chonological order

Zheng he's nautical explorations, Matteo Ricci reaches China, reign of the Kangxi Emperor; reign of the Qianlong emperor

the ambitious plans of Chile's president Jose Manuel Balmaceda Fernandez fell apart as soon as 1891, due to

a coup against him, led by conservative landowners and his subsequent suicide

all of the following are true of the Dutch in Africa EXCEPT

a dutch settler society gradually emerged, particularly when they offered a haven to English Catholics seeking refuge

the first amerindian to accede to the office of President of Mexico was

benito juarez

the white lotus, who sparked a rebellion against the wing soon after the qianlong emperor stepped down from his throne in 1795, were a sect of

buddhism

this country gained access to rich nitrate deposits and mining cities as a result of its winning the war of the pacific (1879-1884)

chile

by 1810, when the first independence movements were formed in the viceroyalty of La Plata, the portenos were

creoles living in Buenos Aires who favored independence from Spain

denis diderots ost important contribution to the enlightenment was to assemble all the latest scientific and philosophical thinking into the

encyclopedie

Portuguese mariners initially sailed up the Congo River in the 1480s in hopes of finding a passage to the Indies across Africa

false

for the english, the acquisition of Bombay (Mumbai) from the Mughals in the 1660s gave the British East India Company a superb harbor

false

the Louisiana purchase took place before the haitian revolution

false

the tokugawa attempt to conquer China in the last sexteenth century was led by Oda Nobunga

false

the Hausa kingdoms

formed at the height of the Mali-dominated trans-Saharan trade

the earliest settlement in the northeastern coast North America was

jamestown

the so-called "physiocrats" argued freedom and equality should be the standard economic principles and that the state should adopt this economic policy

laissez-faire

one of the ports that benefitted most from the slave trade was

liverpool, where manufactured goods, such as guns, knives, textiles, and other wares would sail to Africa where the goods would be exchanged for slaves

African rulers sold slaves to the Europeans as

luxury items to be exchanged for other luxury items

Akbars attempt to create a new divine faith was doomed to failure in part because

many followers joined the new divine faith for opportunistic rather than spiritual reasons

what percentage of the Paraguayan population was lost in the Paraguayan war of 1864-1870?

more than half

coffee, rubber, and sugar exports yielded high profits and taxes in brazil until 1896, when

overproduction of coffee resulted in diminishing returns

the japanese daimyo were

regional warlords

what did Emmanuel Joseph sieyes believed the third estate stood for, in his pamphlet entitled What is the third estate

the french nation

this revivalist movement of the 1730's and 1740's used a literal understanding of Protestantism as one of its main foundation, and received its main impulse from the work of the brothers John and Charles Wesley

great awakening

The term "casta" originated in the desire to the iberin and Creole settlers to draw distinctions among degrees of

racial mixture

after the american civil war, a period of unification ensued during which southern states were occupied by federal troops in order to enforce the new policies of

reconstruction

as a result of the second opium war, qing china was forced to abide by all but one of the following

reduction of extraterritoriality privileges

when latin american republics declared their independence, the popes in rome

refused to recognize their independence, concerned with the power of naming bishops

contrary to expeditions, in the late 1800s wages for laborers in Latin America

remained low, because ethnic discrimination and racism trumped market conditions

choose the correct chronological order of the events below

second Ottoman siege of Vienna; first Ottoman-Russian war, Napoleon's occupation of Egypt; Crimean war

spurred by the development of European politics and influenced by waves of immigrants from Spain and Italy, two major urban opposition parties took shape in 1890s Argentina, the radical party and the

socialists

the United States Supreme Court "Dred Scott Decision" ruled

that black African slaves "had no rights which a white man was bound to respect"

the Gunpowder empire, named for their reliance on cannons and small arms in their military campaigns, included all of the following except

the Habsburgs

in the commercial trade between Europe and China, all of the following are true EXCEPT

the Qing dynasty incorporated the European merchants into the diplomatic system during the seventeenth century

All of the following is true of the Great Reforms initiated by Alexander II except

the Tsar made the mistake of waiting until he could gain the support of the economic and intellectual elite before implementing the reforms

regarding the newly independent north american republic, which of the following statements is not accurate

the articles of confederation did not grant enough self-governing power to the individual states

which of the following is not a long-term consequence of the creation of a world trading system by the European maritime powers

the dutch and the British saw a sharp decline in their supremacy in India

following the assassination of Alexander II in 1881

the movement toward liberization floundered the new tsars reverted to the tradition of tight, autocratic political control

the high point of the Qing dynasty was during the rule of

the qianlong emperor

among the many native american allies who aided cortes in the conquest of the Aztec Empire were the

tlaxcalans

this movement kept the korean peninsula a volatile one in the 19th century, inspiring peasant rebellions in 1810 and 1860

tonghak

The Moroccan sultans who invaded the Songhay Empire in 1591 had recently driven the Portuguese from their Atlantic coast and worried about similar incursions elsewhere

true

in contrast to Rausseau's traditional Christians ethics, immanuel kant sought to build morality on trancendent reason and thus came to the conclusion that his morality had to be erected on the basis of the categorical imperative

true

the education the elite women included training in Confucian decorum, writing essays, and reciting poetry

true

the golden temple in the city of Amristar became the religious center of the Sikhs, and they defended their faith against the repressive policies of Aurangzeb

true

when the british in 1849 authroized warships to enter Brazilian waters to intercept slave ships, the importation of slaves virtually ceased

true

under Mughal rule, an elaborate, graded system of official ranks was created in which the recipients, called mansadbars

were awarded grants of land along with the revenues those working the land generated

some Catholic monks in the kingdom of Kongo denounced ngangas as

witches

Perhaps the most important mit'a obligation which subject households owed to the Inca in the conquest phase of their empire was the service of

young men between 18 and 30 years of age in the military