Module 2
In the course of ten years, how many people have been rescued from slavery?
2000-3000
The system of government established by the Romanov dynasty in seventeenth-century Russia was:
Absolutist
Which group of people was consigned to the bottom of Enlightenment-era racial hierarchies?
Africans
Skinner quotes a US Justice Department statistic concerning how many people are forced ("trafficked") into slavery each year. Roughly how many people are enslaved each year worldwide?
Between 14,000 and 17,000
Which of the following did Captain Cook and Christopher Columbus have in common?
Both of them kidnapped native people and took them home to study.
Of which Empire did Ivan III claim to be the heir?
Byzantine
Which of the following was NOT a lasting influence on Tokugawa Japan?
Christianity
Apart from having slaves living among us, US citizens also "participate" in slavery in what other way?
Consumer goods might have been made with child/slave labor.
The Atlantic system included a complex trade network among:
Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
A consequence of the increasing wealth of European states was:
European states grew rich enough to wage almost unceasing wars against one another.
There are no slaves in the United States of America any more.
False
Who may have been the first European who attempted to classify the peoples of the world?
François Bernier
Under the French model of absolutism, to whom was the king accountable?
God
Access to what natural resource allowed the Asante kingdom to begin its growth and development?
Gold
Which country emerged as the world's strongest colonial power after the Seven Years' War?
Great Britian
The Comte de Buffon and fellow Europeans believed that human groups were more or less admirable according to how closely they resembled the people portrayed in which of the following types of artwork?
Greek nude sculptures
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.
Skinner defines slavery as being forced into a situation where you get "No pay beyond subsistence". Use a dictionary if necessary to work out the best way of explaining this term
It means people only get the basics that they need to live, but no wages
Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the French Encyclopedia?
It singled out some regions, such as China, as examples that Europe should aspire to emulate.
Which English thinker argued that the individual had "natural rights" to property and liberty, and also that members of a srare had the right disband a government if it failed to protect these rights?
John Locke
The walled fortress which was the political home of the Grand Princes of Muscovy -- and later the Russian Tsars -- was:
Kremlin
What was the Mughal emperors major source of revenue?
Land rents
Why did the Spanish capture of Manila in 1571 inaugurate the first worldwide trade circuit?
Manila gave the Spanish a base to trade New World silver to China, then Chinese goods to Europe.
Why did the Enlightenment ideal of gathering knowledge appeal to European absolutist monarchs?
More knowledge about their subjects allowed them to exert greater control
The Canton system:
Only allowed European merchants to trade in the Chinese port of Canton.
Which of the following is NEVER an accurate description of Caribbean sugar plantations?
Plantation managers, eager to have a healthy and productive workforce, provided their slaves with a healthy diet.
Name at least TWO ways in which slaves are used in the US (and in other parts of the world), according to Skinner.
Prosition and Domestic Labor
The Enlightenment encouraged what attitude in regard to religion?
Religious toleration
In 1649, the nobles of Russia established a system of coerced labor called:
Serform
Which product emerged with silver as one of the most valuable exports from the Americas?
Sugar
How did Captain Cook's voyages to Australia reflect Enlightenment ideas?
TThey included scientists to describe and classify Australia's fauna, flora, people, and natural features.
What characteristic did Enlightenment thinkers believe should be the basis for a person's social status?
Talent
The expansion of Russia into an Empire included three factors. These were the conquest of Siberia, victory in a war over Sweden and:
The subjugation of the Ukraine
Why can't slaves in the United States simply report their condition to the police?
They are not US citizens, so they will be deported back to the people in their own country who sold them into slavery who will perhaps punish them
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.
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 did Enlightenment thinkers have in common with authors who wrote about sex and corruption?
They were all willing to explore ways of thinking that defied established beliefs and institutions.
Reflecting on what this video has told you about modern day slavery, is it possible that there are slaves living today in Michigan?
True
Who is most likely to end up in slavery, according to Skinner (he calls it "the largest single pool" from which slaves are drawn)
Very poor people
Which of the following accurately describes silver in early seventeenth century China?
Which of the following accurately describes silver in early seventeenth century China?
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.
Where did Enlightenment ideas circulate most broadly?
commercial centers and port cities
Francis Bacons method of scientific inquiry asserted that:
conducting experiments was the only way that humans could begin to understand the workings of nature.
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
What ideas did European Enlightenment thinkers hold in common?
hey wanted to improve their societies and search for universal, objective knowledge.
All of the following factors contributed to the rise of the Enlightenment EXCEPT:
increased respect for the wisdom of classical and medieval authorities.
The economic philosophy that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase its wealth at the expense of another was known as _______.
mercantilism
What was Europe's contribution to the Atlantic system?
military power and technology
What types of characteristics did Carolus Linnaeus use in defining racial categories?
physical appearance and form of governance
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company became less focused on trade and more focused on:
political control of territory that allowed them to profit from tax collection.
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.
British plans for the colonization of Australia included all of the following EXCEPT:
the exploitation of the native Aborigines as a labor force.
Adam Smith claimed that universal laws of human behavior justified unregulated markets and a laissez-faire economy because:..
they allowed human nature to express itself fully.
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.
Mercantilist thinkers believed that the purpose of colonies was:
to enrich their European motherlands.
There are more slaves today than at any other time in human history.
true
