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Which phrase in this passage reflects the most important motivation for English monarchs to sponsor expeditions into the Indian Ocean?
"Advancement of trade merchandise"
Which person expressed ideas most clearly in conflict with the action taken by Queen Elizabeth in this passage?
Adam Smith
What was a consequence of Europeans' introducing firearms into North America?
Amerindian groups fought each other as they sought to increase their hunting and trapping ranges.
Which of the following was a consequence of the Thirty years War?
Central Europe's populations and economies did not recover for more than a century.
Why did European wars expand into global confrontations?
Conflicts over overseas colonies and trade routes replaced earlier regional religious and territorial struggles.
Which of the following prevented English monarchs, such as Queen Elizabeth I, from establishing an absolutist regime?
English monarchs were legally required to obtain the consent of Parliament in order to raise funds.
which of the following is a reason that creoles in spanish and portuguese colonies were drawn to enlightenment ideas
Enlightenment ideas helped to justify their dissatisfaction with colonial rule.
What would be needed to be added to the map to describe the main elements of the "triangular trade" that accompanied the Atlantic slave trade?
European manufactured goods going to Africa and American cash crops to Europe
A historian could use this passage as evidence to support the interpretation that in the late seventeenth century, japan was
Following policies that could lead to peasant dissatisfaction with its government
Which of the following supported the Mughal nobility's lavish lifestyle?
Foreign trade brought in silver had advanced the money economy, which helped the nobility prosper.
Why would the family portrayed in this painting have been rarer to find in a French colony than in other European colonies?
French settlers were less likely to settle permanently in one place
Which of the following was used by Tokugawa leyasu to secure relative peace, which lasted for two centuries after his death?
He declared himself shogun and established a hereditary system of succession
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.
Today, Iran and Turkey are often political rivals. This passage suggests that this rivalry is based on historical conflicts over
How to practice Islam correctly
How did popular culture in Tokugawa Japan subvert its social order?
It idolized groups such as actors, musicians, and courtesans, who were ordinarily at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
Peter the Great of Russia's desire to demonstrate his absolute monarchy by building lavish palaces closely resembles what other leader during the 17th and 18th Century?
King Louis XIV of France
Richard Lion's observations on Caribbean society lead to which of the following conclusions?
Life on Barbados is challenging for all inhabitants of the island.
Under the Colonial social structure, the child of this marriage would be born into which class in Latin America?
Mestizo
Which of the following helped to destabilize the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth century?
Military campaigns and a growing population strained the empire's resources.
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.
What brought an end to the "normal state of hostility" between the Safavids and Ottomans mentioned in the passage?
Safavid fervor for its brand of Islam slowly declined until the two empires stopped fighting.
To build his new capital of Russia, Peter the Great used what type of labor system?
Serfdom
Which of the following accurately describes labor on Caribbean sugar plantations?
Slaves often dropped dead from exhaustion, working up to sixteen-hour days.
In what area of the Ottoman Empire during the 1600's would there have been the most diversity of ethnic, and religious subjects?
Syria
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.
Since there was no demand for European products in Asia, what steps did the Dutch take to reduce the need to use precious metals to pay for Asian spices?
The Dutch used their merchant ships to increase their participation in inter-Asian trade.
For what reason did the Tokugawa shoguns expel all foreign traders except for the Dutch?
The Dutch were Protestants and did not proselytize.
In what way did the Islamic world in the period between 1500 and 1780 change from its earlier pattern of cultural development?
The Islamic world developed three distinctive cultural traditions centered on the Mughal, Ottoman, and Safavid empires.
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 statement about the Atlantic slave trade accurately adds important information to what the map shows
The journey across the Atlantic was a grueling one for the captives, and many died before reaching the Americas.
How did Captain Cook's voyages to Australia reflect Enlightenment ideas?
They included scientists to describe and classify Australia's fauna, flora, people, and natural features.
Which of the following strategies contributed to the early success of the Qing dynasty?
They presented themselves as upholders of familial values and traditional Chinese culture.
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.
What ideas did European Enlightenment thinkers hold in common?
They wanted to improve their societies and search for universal, objective knowledge.
Which of the following was the most common way that African slaves in the Americas resisted the conditions of their enslavement?
Thousands of slaves fled to the remote interiors of Brazil or the Caribbean islands.
The map supports the conclusion about the African slave trade that the greatest number of slaves were sent
To Brazil and the Caribbean to work on sugar plantations
Which of the following factors made the Safavid Empire the most unstable of the large Muslim states?
Weak rulers and internal divisions
Which of the following world history processes was most responsible for the eighteenth-century cityscape of St. Petersburg, Russia, shown above?
Westernization
Which would be the most useful source of evidence to support McNeill's contention that "the Safavi (Safavid) Empire remained a profoundly disturbing force in the Moslem [Muslim] world"?
Writings by Ottoman religious leaders of that time about the Safavids
The policies of leaders like Hideyoshi, like those of Peter the Great in Russia and Louis XIV in France, were designed to.
centralize government power and control the upper class nobility
This painting represents a family in Latin America rather than one in British North America because Latin American families were more likely to
consist of a European man marrying a native woman
The English colonial model in the New World differed from that of other european states in that it
dispossessed native peoples from their lands in order to accommodate a growing English settler population
Which group would benefit most directly from the action described in this passage
shareholders in the company, because the company received a monopoly on english trade in Africa and Asia
What new technology brought by the Portuguese allowed Hideyoshi and other shoguns to enforce such edicts over powerful daimyo landowners?
warships
