World History Midterm
The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to immigrate by
1492
By the second half of the 16th century, the ottoman empire was a vast multi ethnic in multi religious state of some — — inhabitants
15 Million
Martin Luther protested the sale of indulgences in with 95 thesis address to the archbishop
1517
Of the approximately 144,000 estimated Native Americans in New England in 1600, fewer than 15,000 remained by
1620
In many places, the _____-mile Incan road network still exists today.
25,000
Buy some estimates, there were more ___ Slave uprising's involving 10 or more slaves during the fourth centuries of Atlantic slavery
250
An estimated __ Spaniards immigrated from Europe to the Americas between 1500 and 1800
300,000
With ___ inhabitants in the 16th century, the capital of Kongo, M'banza What is comparable in size to many European cities at the time
60,000
All of the following are true about the use of a quipu by the Incas except
700 of them have been deciphered and translated
The most prominent of the small Maya states, Chichen Itza in the northern lowlands, flourished from about
850-1000
Tenochtitlain was
A city established on one of the islands in the Valley of Mexico
Pulque was
A fermented drink made from the pulp of the maguey plants
The Jewish community of __ excommunicated Baruch Spinoza for Hershey, since he seem to make God immanent in the world
Amsterdam
Portable water was made available in the Tenochiltian by means of:
An adequate that arrived on one of the western causeways
In "chattel" Slavery, the slave is, in legal terms
An item of movable personal property
It is possible that imperial propaganda machines in the Aztec and Inca Empires, similar to those of the ______ and Mongols in Eurasia attempted to intimidate their enemies through tales of brutal treatment.
Assyrians
A mathematician and assistant of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli experimented with mercury filled tubes to lay the groundwork for the first
Barometer
On St __ day in August 1572, the catholic king and aristocracy of French perpetuated a wholesale slaughter of thousands of Huguenots
Bartholomew
The ruler Ewuare what's the first to rise to dominance Over Chiefs and assume the title of king
Benin
From the middle of the 17th century, the pueblos de Indios were fully functional, self administering units, with councils, __, churches, schools, communal lands, and family Parcels
Cabildos
Acquiring wealth with the help of money in there by perhaps getting a glimpse of one's fate became one of the hallmarks of
Calvinism
— inherited Habsburg territories Throughout Europe and the Inca in the Aztec empire in the Americas where he became emperor in 1516
Charles V
Aztec farmers constructed soil islands in Lake Texcoco called _________ and grew corn, beans, squash, and other vegetables on them.
Chinampas
In his preface, Cervantes claimed he had written Don Quixote of La Mancha to "indicate the absurdity" of notions of — —
Chivalry
The Ottomans benefited from the trade of new commodity, —, which was produced in Ethiopia and Yemen
Coffee
The southern Peruvian city-state of____ with its Inca elite, emerged in the early 15th century at the head of the highly militaristic, conquering polity
Cuzco
Coffeehouse is allowed the literate urban public to meet, read __ and exchange ideas
Daily newspapers
As part of the African ___, Africans move to nearly all parts of the Americas primarily as a result of the transatlantic slave trade
Diaspora
The Columbian exchange characterizes the transfer of plants, animals, and __ Between the Americas and the rest of the world
Diseases
Spain refused to recognize the __ united provinces of the republic until 1648
Dutch
The Spanish quest for mythical __ Or Golden city was fruitless
El Dorado
By means of land labor grants called __, Spanish entrepreneurs are entitled to use forced indigenous or imported slave labor to exploit natural resources in the New World
Encomiendas
To support the mining centers in administrative cities, the Spanish colonial government __ The development of agricultural estates (haciendas)
Encouraged
Conquistadors Francisco Pizarro, Herman Cortes and Alonso Ortiz all Originated in the Spanish region of
Esrremadura
Around 1750, there were about 10,000 Boers (Dutch for ____) in the Cape colony, easily outnumbered by slaves.
Farmers
In Tiwanaku society, llamas were used as transportation animals and as a _______.
Food source
After selection for the service, female Inca would generally spend _____years with the "House of the Chosen Women."
Four
Because __ universities in scientific academies refuse to admit women, in contrast to their counterparts in other countries, the salon became a bastion of well-placed and respected female scholars
French
Renaissance thinkers an artist considered their period of time rebirth ( the literal meaning of the word in the __ language)
French
The most successful __ settlement in North America was the subtropical district at the mouth of the Mississippi river in what is now Louisiana, where some 300 settlers in 4000 African slaves founded sugar plantations
French
Despite his appearance in the city in 1536, it was well into the 1550s before John Calvin's form of protestantism is him prevailed in
Geneva
After defeat of the songhey, Much of the Trans-Siberian gold trade was siphoned off by the Portuguese on what became known as the gold coast (modern __)
Ghana
Brazil produce a total of 1000 tons of __ in the 18th century, a welcomed Bonaza for Portugal at a time of lo agricultural prices
Gold
Beginning in the 1990s and on the basis of study of terra preta, scholars proposed that indigenous peoples in the Amazonian rainforests.
Had employed slash and char techniques, reducing trees to nutrient-rich charcoal.
In the 15th century, more than——- of the people in the Mexican Basic lived in cities like Tenochiltian
Half
Although they were under frequent attack by the songhey and Kanem-Bornu during theperiod 1500-1800, the ___ Kingdoms enjoyed periods of independence during which many of the ruling clans converted to Islam
Hausa
An expedition sent out the Portuguese king —the navigator captured the city of Ceuta on the north African coast in 1415
Henry
Leading a motley force i'm about 530 Spanish men, __ defeated a much larger indigenous force at Tabasco in 1518.
Herman Cortes
A member of the ___ Family of rulers, Frederick second the great of Prussia enlarged his army and pursued in aggressive foreign-policy
Hohenzolism
The unequal relations between Tutsi cattle breeders and ___ farmers froze into a caste System during the 19th century colonial occupation
Hutu
Barbados We're settled initially in 1627 by English planters, who grew tobacco, cotton, indigo, and ginger, employing English and Irish
Indentured slaves
In 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to
India
As a proponent of Coperican Helios centrism, Galileo seem to contradict the passage in the Hebrew Bible book of __ in which God stops the sun in the sky for a day
Joshua
Copernicus began his studies at the University of __, the only eastern European school to offer courses in astronomy
Krakow
After being kidnapped by Christian pirates, Al Hasan lbn Muhammed al-Wazzan was baptized under the name of pope—
Leo X
Fight in the eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Christians won the battle of — — thanks to their superior naval tactics
Lepanto
Having laid waste to Cusco, Pizarro founded a new Andean capital at __ in 1535
Lima
The portolan (nautical chart) drawn by Pedro Reinel is the earliest known map to include
Lines of latitude
By the late 13th and early 14th centuries, native shipwrights and their teachers from Genoa teamed up in the port of — —to develop new ships suited to the stormy Atlantic
Lisbon
In 1649, a group of 70 mostly landless farmers and day laborers occupied common land about 25 miles south of __ and set up a communal farm there
London
Towards the first half of the 15th century, the Ottoman sultan is equipped their Janissaries with cannons and
Muskets
Around 900, migrants speaking the language——- arrived in the vicinity of the collapsed teotihuacan
Nehuatl
Juana Ines de la Cruz secretly studied Latin, Greek and __ in her maternal grandfather's library
Nuhuatl
The resourceful queen ____ of Ndongo sometimes Negotiated with the Portuguese in fire grill campaign against them at others
Nzinga
The Aztecs created an imperial policy from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Tarasco 200 miles to the NW of
Oaxaca
The chacmool or —— can be found in several Mesoamerican sites as far as Tenochitirlian and Tula
Offering table
The memoir of a former slave and abolitionist___ would help push the movement of the liberating slaves forward in the 19th century
Olaudah Equiano
The term casta originated in the desire of the Iberian and Creole Settlers to draw distinctions among degrees of
Racial mixture
In the 1540s, the Spanish government introduced __ called repartimientos which was a continuation of the mit'a system devised by the Inca for taxation
Rotating labor assignments
The Danish mariner Peter Vaughan sivers rose to the position of admiral in the __ fleet
Russian
In the 1400s, Portuguese Mariners rated the west African coast in the ___Region for slaves
Senegambia
After staying three months on the first Bahaman island he found, Christopher Columbus returned to Iberia with — and a small quantity of gold
Seven captured Caribbean islanders
The karagoz was a
Shadow puppet theatre
The Shehzade and Suley mosques in Istanbul and the Selimiye mosque in Edirine were designed by
Sinan
Stationary theaters with stages, main floors, balconies, and boxes appeared in the main cities of Spain during the — century
Sixteenth
The final provinces added to the Inca empire in the ____ century, were in northern Ecuador as well as on the Eastern slopes of the Andes
Sixteenth
In the 17th century, the process of manumission was:
Sometimes followed by the freed mans acquisition of his own slaves.
An example of creole language that has survived for centuries in Gullah, used by the isolated communities along the coastal islands of Georgia and ___
South Carolina
___ Was the only north American colony, and later state, in which African Americans outnumber those of European dissent
South Carolina
The Pueblo cultures, in today's —— were based on sophisticated irrigated farming systems and are known for their distinctive painted pottery styles
SouthWestern United States
Mercantilist Economic theory dictates that
States should keep their economies blocked off from competitors and import a little and export as much as possible
When the city of __ was captured in November 15 19, the emperor Moctezuma II what is forced to swear allegiance to Emperor Charles V
Tenichtitlan
Growing to the city of 30,000 inhabitants by the seventh century, Wari enlarged its agricultural base through the expansion of—-
Terrance Farming
Towards the first half of the 15th century, the Ottoman sultan is equipped their Janissaries with cannons and
Topkapi Palace
The Atlantic system or the ___ Trade connected the American colonies with Africa and Europe
Triangular
Mehmet II besieged and Conquered Constantinople within — in 1453
Two months
Portuguese colonial cities and Jesuits Repeatedly crashed over the__ Of the pioneers into the Brazilian interior
slave raids
Humanism was an intellectual movement focused on human culture, in such fields as philosophy, philology and literature based on the corpus of __ text
Greek and Roman
Despite the appearance of his beaming benevolence at Versailles, the absolutists rule of __ what is a complex mixture of centralized and decentralized forces
Louis XIV
The main goal of Gustavus II Adolphus' intervention in the 30 years war was the creation of Swedish __ centralized state around the Baltic Sea
Lutheran
The El Escorial palace complex was built by Juan Bautista de Toledo in
Madrid
Isaac newtons __ principles of natural philosophy, published in 1687, what is the towering achievement of the new sciences
Mathematical
In the course of his 14th century journeys, Ibn Battuta passed through western Anatolia and Constantinople and was impressed by the rising power of —
Ottomans
Privateers were individual entrepreneurs who were virtually indistinguishable
Pirates
"Auto-da-fe" means "act of faith" in the — language
Portuguese
Between 1434 and 1472, three combination of private and public expeditions, ___ Mariners explored the African coast as far east as the bright of Benin
Portuguese
Towards the middle of the 15th century, Aztec rulers set up a military school system for the sons of the elite plus the commoners who were to become
Priests
A Native American reported and parents of our lady of __ in 1531, in a place where the native Goddess Tonantizin used to be venerated
Guadalupe
By the early 17th century, a powerful elite of Spanish who, __ called Creoles, wasn't a place to assist the Spanish administrators
Had been born in the Americas
___ What is the first institution of higher learning in North America, devoted to teaching the correct balanced Calvinist Protestantism
Harvard college