Exam 1

Experiments in the _____ with moveable metal typeface resulted in the innovation of the printing press.

1430s

The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by __________.

1492

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.

2 months

Due to rural economic expansion during the Mughal period, the population grew to _____ by 1800.

200

The basic administrative unit in Mughal India was the pargana which comprised of

A town and up to one hundred villages

James Oglethorpe's vision of the colony of Georgia included all of the following except;

An adoption of native Creek patterns of interaction with the natural environment.

After 1699, the city of ______ became a center of European trade and diplomacy with China.

Canton

Matteo Ricci was a Catholic missionary mainly in which country or region?

China

"Absolutism" meant a government in which the ruler could do literally anything he wanted, with absolutely no limitations whosoever on his power.

False

"Manumission" meant forcing, capturing, or selling a person into slavery.

False

Privateers were unarmed civilian merchant ships

False

Taiwan is located on a peninsula between China and Japan.

False

The "queue" hairstyle became a popular fashion among Chinese women during the Qing dynasty

False

The story of Anne Hutchinson demonstrates that the English colonies in America were fully committed to the principle of religious freedom.

False

The story of Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita demonstrates that openness and willingness of the Catholic Church to compromise and accept the blending of Christianity with traditional African beliefs and practices.

False

The term "Western Civilization" refers to the Native American empires of Mexico and Peru, because they were located in the Western Hempishere

False

The term "infantry" refers to breast-feeding of newborn children in upper class families by paid wet nurses hired from the lower class

False

What countries in Europe developed porcelain factories in the 18th century?

Germany and England

Brazil production of _____ in the 18th century, was a welcome bonanza for Portugal at the time of low agricultural prices.

Gold

Even thought he was outnumbered, Babur was able to defeat the Lodi ruler at Panipat because:

He possessed matchlock muskets and field cannon.

Leading a force of about 300 Spanish men, _______ defeated a much larger indigenous force at Tabasco in 1518.

Hernán Cortés

When Jahangir died in 1627, who succeeded him to the Mughal throne?

Jahan

Edo was the capital of which country or empire?

Japan

By the sixteenth century, the capital of Kongo, M'banza, was comparable in size to

London

The ruler with the longest reign in France was

Louis XIV

In 1557, the Portuguese had established the first European colony in China at ____, and they held it until 1999.

Macau

Juana Ines de la Cruz secretly studied Latin, Greek, and ______ in her maternal grandfather's library.

Nahuatl

______ writers, painters, and poets followed Humayun to India, where their talents enlivened the arts and helped developed Urdu verse forms.

Persian

Like his model Genghis Khan, Timur:

Proved surprisingly liberal in the treatment of at least some cities that surrendered.

Chikamatsu Monzaemon's most famous play is based on a real incident, in which the daimyo of 47 samurai was killed by a political opponent, leaving them as ________ - masterless

Ronin

Mughal relations with Safavid Persia, where _________ was the official state religion, meant a certain influence on the Mughal court was unavoidable.

Shia Islam

Mercantilist economic theory dictates that:

States should keep their economies blocked off from competitors and import as little and export as much as possible.

What name was given to an outgrowth of the criticism of the Wang Yangming school?

The Han learning movement

Between 250,000 and 1 million Taínos were killed when the Spanish came due to:

The Native Americans' lack of immunity against smallpox

Descartes concluded that a person, including himself, was composed of two radically different substances, a material substance that can be understood with the senses and another that consisted of:

The thinking mind

The most original contribution of Sinan to Ottoman architecture was:

To use up to eight slender pillars as hidden internal supports of the dome

"Devsirme" was the Ottoman empire's system of forcing boys from Christian families to serve as soldiers in the Sultan's army.

True

"Moriscos" were Muslims in Spain

True

Bartolome de Las Casas argued that Native Americans should not be enslaved

True

Bartolome de Las Casas helped create the "Black Legend" of Spanish cruelty

True

Maroons were people who escaped from slavery and created autonomous communities beyond the frontiers of colonial authority.

True

Steam engines were developed to assist in coal mining in Britain during the early 1700s.

True

Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztec empire

True

Unlike their counterparts in Spain, the cavalry ruling class of the Ottoman Empire

Was nonhereditary

Akbar had a sudden intense mystical experience in 1578, gradually developing a personal philosophy he called "sulh-i kull", meaning "_________".

peace with all

According to the infamous "_______ edict" in 1645, all males, regardless of ethnicity, were required on pain of death to adopt the Manchu hairstyle of a shaved forehead and long pigtail in the back.

queue

What caused the European immigrant population to rise in Brazil during the late seventeenth century?

the discovery of gold

The Mughals gave India one of its most prolific eras in terms of profusion and synthesis of literary genres, with _______ remaining the chief languages of literature in Islamic India.

Arabic and Persian

Popular culture in Chinese villages included all of the following except;

Confucianism

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

Madrid

Which navigator began ( though did not survive) the first round-the-world voyage in 1519?

Magellan

Scholars and administrators in traditional China were known as:

Mandarins

Issac Newton's _______ Principles of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687, was the towering achievement of the New Sciences.

Mathematical

Ming land taxes were paid to the government in ______ via installments

Silver

Which disease had the most devastating effect on Native American populations after 1492?

Smallpox

The Deccan is a geographical region in south-central India.

True

The Ming dynasty ended when the Qing dynasty began.

True

The balance of power between the monarchy and Parliament in Britain became known as "constitutionalism".

True

Nicola is Copernicus began what?

the Scientific Revolution or "New Sciences"

The Portuguese not only included India in their commercial network, but laid claim to _____ as well.

Brazil