AP World Unit 4: MCQ

What best characterizes world trade in the period 1450 to 1750 ?

The demand for Asian commodities was financed by New World silver.

What created prosperity?

The development of European maritime trade networks and massive Asian land empires created prosperity.

Renaissance Art

art inspired by Roman and Greek style, architecture, pottery, design, and figures.

Who was Wu Cheng'en?

A famous writer outside of Europe who popularized Chinese writing.

What best describes an accurate similarity between the Qing and Russian empires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Both had vast territories with peoples of various ethnicity and languages.

What did increasing security and organization of large swathes of territory and people allow for?

Allowed for peasants and workers to work in peace, creating more goods for the global world trade maintained by European merchants

In the period 1450 - 1750, which of the following, produced on large plantations by slave labor, were significant commodities in the growing world market?

Cash crops such as tobacco

What were he practices that had made the Mali empire powerful in the first place?

Collecting and selling African slaves and mining a large amount of gold

What was one aspect the Manchu rulers adopted from the Han?

Confucian Examination system

What was a method rulers in Eurasia used to legitimize and consolidate their power during the period 1450 C.E. to 1750 C.E.?

Developing professional militaries

What major trade city began to take advantage of Mali's decline?

Gao

What were some of the things that Askia the Great did?

He opened religious schools, constructed mosques, opened up his court to non-Black African scholars and poets, and sent his kids to Islamic school but was tolerant of other religions.

Woodblock Print

Images that were carved onto wood blocks and stamped with various colors to paper.

What does Islam and Judaeo-Christian beliefs teach?

Obedience to your political rulers, particularly caliphs and sultans.

Who were sufis?

Islamic spiritual guides who used dance and rituals to form greater connections with Allah.

What was Journey to the West?

It was the best selling book in the world for several centuries, in which it detailed the journey of a Buddhist monk to central and south asia.

What contributed most to the emergence of Russia as an expanding Eurasian power in the period between 1450 and 1750?

Its absorption of traditions and technology from the Byzantine Empire and western Europe

Who were the famous writers funded by?

Kings and Queens such as, Queen Elizabeth of England

Manikongo converted to roman Catholicism in 1491 following contact with what country?

Portugal

Who were the two famous writers and where were they from?

Shakespeare (england) and Cervantes (spain).

What were the main reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty?

Silver only tax policy and loss of economic output

According to the letters of Alfonso to the Portuguese, what markets had existed for centuries?

Slave

What were the new technologies that relaxed religious control and academic culture created?

Telescopes and vacuum tubes

Scientific Revolution

The emphasis on repeatable proof and evidence down from mathematics, logic, and observation

What languages were these writers able to further develop?

The modern vernacular English, French, and German

How did the famous writings spread?

The printing press

What was the Queue Order?

The requirement of all Han males within the empire to adopt the Manchu queue hairstyle.

Who did patrons fund?

Writers and Playwrights which captured early modern culture.

Humanism

a scholarly, political, and artistic emphasis on human life rather than divine

What factor contributed most to Manchu expansion in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

The use of cannons and gun powder

What did Shakespeare and Cervantes do?

They captured the culture of their time and developed the common vernacular language and grammar rules that are present today?

How did the Songhai used Islam and elites to consolidate their control?

They forced the elites and their children to convert and practice loyalty to the king.

How did the Kongo empire benefit economicaly?

They were a major source of slaves for Portuguese traders and other European powers.

How did the Qing demonstrate power?

Through culture (life-size portraits)

Why did the Qing dynasty keep the Confucian examination system?

To appease, stabilize, and control the Han Chinese.

Why was the policy, banning of intermarriage, put into place in China?

To assert Manchu identity and dominance over the Han.

What was china's main goal?

To maintain social harmony

What happened when Tutu oversaw a massive Ashanti territorial expansion?

Trade in gold, ivory, slaves, and other goods with the Portuguese which gave rise to kingdoms such as the Ashanti.

What did growing skepticism towards old knowledge challenge?

Traditional authority

Examples of Early-modern syncretism?

Vondun and Sufism

Which of the following world history processes was most responsible for the eighteenth-century Citysearch of St. Petersburg, Russia, shown above?

Westernization

What best describes patriarchal gender systems?

Women are inferiors and must be protected by men.

The success of European powers in penetrating the Asian trading system by 1600 can best be explained by the

opening of rich silver mines in Peru and Mexico