AP World History Chapter 13

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the largest group of immigrants to the Americas came from:

Africa.

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

China's increasing reliance on the global trading system in silver made the CHinese economy vulnerable to dislocation.

The wealth generated by the Atlantic system primarily benefited:

European elites.

A consequence of the increasing wealth of European states was:

European states grew rich enough to wage almost unceasing wars against one another.

Under the French model of absolutism, to whom was the king accountable?

God

Which country emerged as the world's strongest colonial power after the Seven Years' War?

Great Britain

The Oyo Empire:

conducted annual military campaigns.

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the decline of the Safavid Empire?

the presence of Europeans at court

An important topic among French and English political writers of the 17th and 18th centuries was:

the question of whether sovereignty originates in the king, the nobility, or the people.

In general, the slave trade helped to shift wealth toward which African social group?

the warrior class

_______ destabilized the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth century.

Inflation

During the sixteenth century, what impact did the European presence in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea have on Asian dynasties?

It enhanced their wealth and might

Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Thirty Years' War?

Russia emerged as a great European power.

All of the following were destinations for slaves captured in sub-Saharan Africa EXCEPT:

Siberia

Which of the following is NOT an accurate match for the source of a globally traded commodity?

Silver from China

Which of the following does NOT describe events in the Kongo kingdom?

The Portuguese decisively defeated Queen Nzinga, opening the country to Portuguese control.

Why can it be said that Mughal rulers were victims of their own success?

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

What role did Europeans play in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century slave trade in Africa?

They depended on indigenous political and trading networks that brought slaves to the coasts.

How did Dutch merchants contribute to the development of European commerce?

They established a stock exchange, a banking system, and a system for insuring cargoes.

During the seventeenth century, rising levels of global commerce increased prosperity in the Ming and Mughal empires but also led to:

a decline in central control.

The system of government established by the Romanov dynasty in seventeenth-century Russia was:

absolutist

What was the Mughal emperors' major source of revenue?

land rents

Which English thinker argued that the individual had "natural rights" to property and liberty, and also that members of a share had the right disband a government if it failed to protect these rights?

John Locke

The group that took advantage of the collapse of the Ming dynasty in the seventeenth century to establish the QIng dynasty came from:

Manchuria

The economic philosophy that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase it wealth at the expense of another was known as ______.

Mercantilism

Why did the Tokugawa shoguns limit foreign traders' access to Japan?

They feared that the growth of trade would orient commercial activity away from the capital.

What role did Tokugawa Japan's semi-independent "vassal" islands play for Japanese society as a whole?

They served as buffers that helped to define the identity of those who lived in Japan.

Tokugawa Ieyasu did all of the following EXCEPT:

arrange marriages among the children of local authorities to solidify political bonds.

The Dutch killed or enslaved nearly the entire population of the Bandanese Islands in order to:

buy nutmeg at a low price in the Bandanese Islands and sell nutmeg at many times that price in Europe.

How did sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europeans change Southeast Asian social structures?

by replacing established trade routes with new ones serving European interests

Which of the following best describes the initial relationship that developed between French colonists and Native Americans?

cooperation and French dependence on Indian knowledge

The English colonial model in the New World differed from other European states in that it:

depended on dispossessing Indians from their lands in order to accommodate a growing English settler population hungry for farmlands.

What advantage did the English East India Company's royal charter provide?

exclusive rights to import East Indian goods into England

The French empire in seventeenth-century North America profited from which commodity?

furs

Access to what natural resource allowed the Asante kingdom to begin its growth and development?

gold

Which of the following set of goods were introduced to Indians in North America by Europeans?

guns, alcohol, horses

How did the commercial network run by the Ekpe society in West Africa enforce the delivery of promised slaves by traders?

holding pawns who, if traders didn't deliver, would be sold instead of the missing slaves

The Atlantic slave trade had the following effects on Africa EXCEPT:

increased cooperation between neighborhood villages.

African slaves in the Americas resisted the conditions of their enslavement through all of the following EXCEPT:

killing their children so they wouldn't have to live as slaves

Early Ottoman rulers' decision to avoid trade with the outside world:

led to black markets, making Ottoman rulers dependent on loans of silver from merchants.

The "Canton system":

only allowed European merchants to trade in the Chinese port of Canton.

Which of the following was NOT a source of wealth found by European colonizers in the Americas?

silks and porcelains

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) sought to establish a monopoly over the trade in:

spices.

The enclosure of common lands in the English countryside during the seventeenth century resulted in:

the commercialization of agriculture.

One consequence of the political and economic disorder in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was:

the emergence of breakaway provinces such as Mamluk Egypt.

All of the following strategies contributed to the early success of the QIng dynasty EXCEPT:

their refusal to grant local forms of administration to the newly acquired territories.

One reason that English monarchs did NOT establish an absolutist regime was:

they were legally required to obtain the consent of Parliament in order to raise funds.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the average life expectancy of an African slave brought to the Caribbean was:

three years.

What was the political goal behind Doña Beatriz Kimpa Vita's claim to have received visions from St. Anthony?

to end the Kongolese civil war and restore unity to the kingdom

Mercantilist thinkers believed that the purpose of colonies was:

to enrich their European motherlands.