World Civilizations II Ch. 13

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

_______ destabilized the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth century.

Inflation

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

Manchuria

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 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.

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.

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.

The Oyo Empire:

conducted annual military campaigns.

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.

Fluctuations in commodity prices had little effect on the stability of states during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

false

The Mughal dynasty made a successful effort to develop a naval presence in the Indian Ocean to forestall the growing European influence in the region.

false

The demographic impact of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was as devastating as the impact of Afro-Eurasian diseases on Native Americans in the sixteenth century.

false

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

What was the Mughal emperors' major source of revenue?

land rents

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

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.

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

the warrior class

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

three years.

After having initially welcomed trade and Christianity into Japan in the sixteenth century, Tokugawa officials banned Christianity and expelled missionaries from Japan.

true

Many people who were captured and enslaved in the Atlantic slave trade died before leaving Africa.

true

The English and French profited from the colonization of the Americas despite the lack of precious metals in their colonies.

true

The Qing dynasty expanded Chinese control into Tibet and central Asia.

true