World Civ. 2 Final

Many Ottoman sultans had concubines who were

Christian

What did the Edict of Nantes in 1598, issued by King Henry IV, promise?

Freedom of religion for Calvinist

Bombay was an important acquisition by the British East India Company because it gave the company

A good harbor

The French dominated trade in silk products in Europe because they had access to what region's silk?

Bengal

In his preface, Cervantes claimed he had written Don Quixote of La Mancha to "ridicule the absurdity" of notions of ___________.

Chivalry

Ignorant of Hinduism when he arrived in India, Vasco da Gama mistook the Indian religion for:

Christianity of Prester John

In the seventeenth century, the preferred non-alcoholic drink in Western Europe was

Coffee

Under Akbar the Great the Mughals built fortresses at key points in their empire, including the largest fortress at

Delhi

At the end of the Thirty Year's war, who emerged as the dominant power in Europe?

France

Although Babur's forces at the battle of Panipat were outnumbered, he had what technological advantage?

Muskets

By the eighteenth century, slave status in the Americas was defined by

Race

What did Parisians hope to find in the Bastille, which they attacked on July 14, 1789?

Weapons

The Great Reform Bill of 1832 reformed the British Parliamentary system by shifting seats to

the north

In the Kongolese belief system, Portuguese Catholicism was:

Adapted to African spiritual and cultural heritage

Under Mughal rule, most of India's internal revenue came from taxing

Agricultural production

The Kerala School, active from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, determined that planets had

Elliptical orbits

What New Scientist rediscovered the theories of Archimedes on floating bodies?

Galileo

Although Henry the Navigator did not himself see the Rio de Oro, Portuguese explorers did find the __________ in West Africa.

Gold Coast

What happened to Vincent Ogé when he and his fellow freedmen revolutionaries surrendered to Spanish forces on Saint-Domingue in 1791?

He was tortured and executed by the French.

The Mughals' long-time enemy the Ahoms were, by the seventeenth century,

Hindu

In the Treaty of Nanjing (1842), Britain acquired what crucial island and deepwater harbor, of which they retained control until 1997?

Hong Kong

After Vasco da Gama circumnavigated the African continent in 1498, Portugal was able to open up direct trade relations with what Asian nation?

India

In 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to __________.

India

Iberians were convinced they needed to recapture Jerusalem for Christianity in order for

Jesus Christ to come back

Fought in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Battle of _________ was the first major sea battle in world history to be decided by firepower.

Lepanto

The caravel was developed in __________ to make travel along the Atlantic easier.

Lisbon

What were zamindars in the Mughal economic and administrative system?

Local cheifs

In elite Hindu families, the primary role of women was to bear children and to

Manage the household

During the Reconquista, Iberian Christians sought to rid the peninsula of:

Muslim Rule

What were moriscos in fifteenth-century Spain?

Muslims who had converted to Christianity

A central doctrine of Calvin's Protestantism was his belief in

Predestination of heaven and hell

The indigo plant, which _____________, contributed to a booming economy in South Carolina starting in the 1740s.

Pressed into a dye

How did upper caste Hindus view Muslims, including the Mughals?

Ritually unclean

Why were Europeans pleased that Indian shipping used saltpeter as ballast?

Saltpeter was used in gunpowder

What city did Timur-i lang use as a capital, and as a base for Silk Road trade?

Samarakand

What religious group uses the Golden Temple at Amritsar?

Sikhs

The American Constitution created an effective federal system, and provided amendments to address Enlightenment ideals, but it avoided any definitive statements on what divisive issue?

Slavery

The Haitian Revolution was more radical than the American or French Revolutions that proceeded it because of what factor?

Slaves led the revolution and liberated themselves.

How did the British East India Company come to be in possession of opium to sell to the Chinese?

The Company controlled Patna, Bengal, where opium was made.

Why did Qing officials call the Taiping rebels the "long-haired rebels"?

The rebels grew their hair long because Christ told Hong Xiuquan to emulate him.

Mercantilism is a political/economic theory that holds that:

The security of the nation is in the amount of silver and gold they possess

At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, what was von Metternich's goal for the republican ambitions of the burgeoning middle class?

To prevent them from coming to power

When Dutch Calvinists revolted in 1565, what did they do to Catholic churches?

Took away the images and sculptures

The Atlantic system or the "_________" trade connected the American colonies with Africa and Europe.

Triangular

Opening up a treaty port in Shanghai gave the British and other European powers access to what crucial waterway?

Yangzi

The king of Kongo collected a head tax, which was paid in

cowrie shells

The popularity of distilled rum promoted:

expansion on sugar plantation

Prior to 1800, most interregional trade was for

luxury goods

The memoir of the former slave and abolitionist __________ would help push the movement of liberating slaves forward in the nineteenth century.

odaudah equiano

The native populations of the Caribbean, the Taínos and Caribs, were wiped out soon after the arrival of Europeans, who brought with them

smallpox

The Navigation Acts of 1651 and 1660 required all goods transported from England to American colonies to be

transported on english ships

Although his regular capital was at Agra, Akbar used Lahore as his capital for over thirteen years because of unrest in what region?

Afghanistan

One factor causing the Protestant Reformation was the raising of revenue by the church through the indulgence, for

Ambitious building projects

The economic causes of the French Revolution are tied to bad harvests in 1786-87 and to crippling debt from loaning money to

American revolutionaries

Unlike the neo-Confucian cultures of China and Japan, the Islamic and Hindu cultures of Mughal India regarded trade as

An honored profession

In "chattel" slavery, the slave is, in legal terms:

An item of property

Machiavelli's concept of virtù, of an intuitive leader, was derived in part from the political theories of

Aristotle

The Confederation of 39 German States created by the Congress of Vienna became a power struggle between Prussia and

Austria

By the mid-sixteenth century, what was the status of the relationship between Austria and the Ottomans?

Austrians had to pay Ottomans

What new branch of mathematics did Newton and Leibniz simultaneously develop?

Calculus

The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans was possible through the use of _________bombardment.

Cannon

Early in the Ottoman conquests, warriors were paid in grants of land, which allowed them to profit economically by

Collecting rent from peasants

Mansabdars were a class of elite bureaucrats who served the Mughal emperor by sometimes furnishing soldiers for war and by their primary function,

Collecting taxes

Eighty percent of all African slaves transported to the Americas worked on ________ plantations.

Cotton

The Qianlong emperor rejected Lord Macartney's request to establish an embassy in China because

European merchants offered little that the Chinese needed or wanted.

The purpose of the Spanish Inquisition, as appointed by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1481, was to:

Ferreting people out people who did not believe in Christianity

The practice of the devșirme contradicted Islamic law, which:

Forbade the enslavement of the people of the book

During the reign of Aurangzeb, the British East India Company and other European interests expanded their ___________ in India.

Fortified outposts

Bismarck's plan for the unification of Germany involved ultimately creating a war with

France

Where was Caribbean revolutionary Vincent Ogé in 1789 when he was first exposed to the new ideas of liberty, equality, and fraternity?

France

The demand for slave labor reached new heights in Brazil when:

Gold was discovered

Although Benin traded fewer slaves to Europe than other West African states, Benin did increase its trade of slaves for

Guns

Austria threatened to declare war on France in 1791 because it feared the revolution would spread there and because of what direct link between the two countries?

Marie Antoinette was Austrian

Charles I of England was forced to summon Parliament in 1642 when he needed

Money since his tax revenues ran out

Islam expanded to the Central Asian Turkic peoples by the fourteenth century thanks to the ease of travel within what empire?

Mongols

What did Fathullah Shirazi design to aid Akbar in his many wars?

Multibarrelled gun

To promote the Islamification of India, Aurangzeb brought back the jizya, a head-tax on

Non- Muslims

Akbar had the Mahabharata and Ramayana translated into

Persians

In addition to the support of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, what else did Mughal Humayun bring back with him from his exile in Persia?

Poets and painters

Why did Metternich resign as the Prime Minister of Austria in 1848?

Pressure from uprisings in multiple cities and by many different ethnic groups.

What was the "White Terror" in France following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy?

Royalists and nobles who returned to France and attacked republicans in revenge.

In 1632 Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for his support of Copernicus's heliocentric theory because it was viewed by the Inquisition as a contradiction of

Scripture

The mosque at Burhanpur was built by ________ and verses from the Quran translated into Sanskrit were engraved on it.

Shah Jahan

According to Adam Smith, the market should be left free of restrictions and allowed to regulate itself by the forces of _________________.

Supply and demand

What aspect of government continued to represent a decentralizing force, even in absolute monarchies such as Louis XIV's France?

Tax collection

American colonists objected to paying the tax on tea because they knew the tax was really a subsidy for

The British East India Company

Mozart wrote many pieces of music for what fraternal organization that became very popular with various Enlightenment thinkers?

The Freemasons

Who granted the Hohenzollern rulers of Prussia the title of "king" in 1701?

The Holy Roman Emperor

In the Persian - Hindu synthesis known as the "Mughal Style" of painting, what was the Hindu contribution?

Vibrant colors

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both from wealthy planter families located in what colony?

Virginia

Although slavery was abolished in the U.S. following the Civil War, freed African-Americans in the South lost what kinds of rights between 1877 and 1914?

Voting rights

Hobbes speculated that humans in a state of nature would always choose to:

Wage War

Paul Revere's famous midnight ride was undertaken in response to the British army's attempt, in April 1775, to seize what from the colonists in Concord, Massachusetts?

Weapons and ammunition

Blaise Pascal's theories about altitude and air pressure led to what practical application of the vacuum?

Weather Forecasting

Mughal population increased by 1800 due to introduction of crops from America and from the expansion of what into northwest India?

Wet rice

What did the "letters of marque" give European sailors legal permission to do?

attack ships of rival states

he average life span of a sugar plantation slave is estimated to have been:

five or six years

The French joined the British in the Second Opium War in order to

protect the catholic missionaries

The vast pine forest running from southern Virginia to northern Florida supplied material primarily for ____________.

ship building

The slave owners' greatest fear was:

slave revolt would begin and spread