quiz questions

A "factory" when discussing it in it's early modern contexts associated with trade, is:

the place where merchants, local agents, and other interested parties gathered to conduct business

portugal was very slow to conquer all of Brazil, especially when compared with the shockingly quick success the Spaniards enjoyed in the Incan and Aztec Empires. this is likely due to all the following but:

the spaniards' use of sophisticated firearms and cannons played a decisive role in combat, especially in close encounters, demonstrating the crucial role of gunpowder technology in bringing down the Aztec and Inca empires

During the 30 years' war, Maria Cunitz wrote a discourse on ___ that amended the calculations of previous scholars. However, due to its provocative nature, it had was privately published.

Astronomy

In 1518, _____ defeated a much larger Amerindian force at Tabasco.

Hernan Cortes

Arriving in Japan in 1549, the Franciscan missionary would later be canonized for his extensive conversions.

Ignatius Loyola

secretly studying __, greek and eating in her maternal grandfather's library, Juana Ines de la Cruz was a self taught scholar and theologian

Nahuatl

A good summary of the Sengoku period is the old saying, "____ pounds the national rice cake, _____ kneads it, and in the end _____ sits down and eats it."

Nobunaga: Hideyoshi: Ieyasu

Via a combination of private/public expeditions between 1434 and 1472, ___ mariners charted the coast of Africa as far east as the Bight of Benin

Portuguese

The ____, in 1557, established the first European colony, taken from the Chinese, at ____, holding the area until 1999.

Portuguese; Macau

The ______ were one of several Amerindians who allied with Cortes against the Aztec Empire.

Tlaxcalans

allowed to grow and expand in the United Provinces and England, among other locales in northern Europe, the new sciences were tolerated because....

a certain intellectual freedom of investigation was allowed in these states that others lacked

the sale of slaves by African rulers to Europeans was viewed by those peoples as:

an exchange of luxury items to be exchanged for other luxury items

chattel slavery differs from any other type of enslavement before it in the world. The slave is, under this system and in legal terms:

an item of moveable personal property

Regarding the new science and enlightenment, all the following statements are correct except

during the period 1500-1750 the impact was limited to a small percentage of the population of each involved society

Renaissance philosophers and artists argued that their time was a "rebirth" as translated from the ___ language

french

The Giggers, and English farmers' movement in 1649, argued that they formed to:

merely cultivating public land, which was "the treasure of all people"

contributing to a growing economy, particularly in South Carolina during the 1740s the indigo plant was popular because it could be ___.

processed into a dye

_____ is ritualized self-disembowelment to avoid shame, and if the cut is deep enough it can ever the descending aorta with rapid exsanguination.

seppuku

Jesuits and Portuguese administrations in Brazil frequently fell-out over the __ of the bandeirantes.

slave raids

Among the greatest fear for the slave owners was concern:

that a slave revolt would begin and spread