Chapter 13 History Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a consequence of the Little Ice Age for Eurasian economies?

Agrarian uprisings swept Eurasia because starving peasants were not able to pay high taxes.

The famous dutch ___ carried heavy cargo with small crews reducing transport costs across Europe.

Fluitschips

What group in Russian society bore the burden of maintaining the wealth of the monarchy and nobility?

Serfs

Which of the following accurately describes labor on Caribbean sugar plantations?

Slaves often dropped dead from exhaustion, working up to sixteen-hour days

Which of the following was the most lucrative source of wealth for European planters in the Americas in the seventeenth century?

Sugar

From which global war between European states did Britain emerge as the foremost colonial empire as it gained territory in North America and India?

The Seven Years War

What was an effect of early Ottoman rulers' decision to avoid trade with the outside world?

The decision led to Ottoman rulers becoming dependent on loans of silver from wealthy merchants.

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.

The Ming Dynasty's administrative and economic difficulties were evidenced by:

failure to respond effectively to natural disasters.

Which of the following was a long-term effect of the Atlantic trade on Africa?

American food crops produced more calories per acre than traditional African staples, which partially offs the population loss of the slave trade.

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.

The ___ system required European traders to China to have guild merchants act as guarantors for their good behavior and payment of fees.

Canton

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.

___ companies, such as the Dutch East India Company, were the most visible collaboration between the state and merchants, as Monarchs granted these firms monopoly trading rights over vast areas.

Chartered

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 was a consequence of the fact that European buyers preferred male slaves?

Gender imbalance in the Americas contributed to the continuation of the transatlantic slave trade.

Which of the following was used by Tokugawa Ieyasu 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 describes events in the Kongo kingdom in the seventeenth century?

Kidnapping became so prevalent that cultivators worked their fields bearing weapons, leaving their children behind in guarded stockades.

What military group asserted Egypt's political and commerical autonomy from the Ottoman control?

Mamluks

What was the economic philosophy called that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase its wealth at the expense of another?

Mercantilism

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 Tokugawa shoguns expel all foreign traders except for the Dutch?

The Dutch were Protestants and did not proselvtize.

Which of the following best describes the initial relationship that developed between French North American colonists and Amerindians?

The French relied on native peoples' knowledge of trapping and adapted to Amerindian ways.

Which conflict established the principle that English monarchs must rule in conjunction with Parliament?

The Glorius Revolution

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.