HIS112 Exam 1 Study Set

B) Portuguese.

For the English, the acquisition of Bombay (Mumbai) from the _________ in the 1660s gave the British East India Company a superb harbor. A) French. B) Portuguese. C) Chinese. D) Mughals.

B) Lepanto.

Fought in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Battle of _________ was the first major sea battle in world history to be decided by firepower. A) Trafalgar. B) Lepanto. C) Tripoli. D) Ragusa.

C) Peru.

Gran Colombia was divided in 1831 into its component parts, which included all of the following except: A) Colombia. B) Ecuador. C) Peru. D) Venezuela.

C) Lima.

Having laid waste to Cuzco, Pizarro founded a new Andean capital at __________ in 1535. A) São Paulo. B) Santiago de Chile. C) Lima. D) Cartagena.

D) Greek and Roman.

Humanism was an intellectual movement focused on human culture, in such fields as philosophy, philology, and literature, and based on the corpus of ___________ texts. A) Arabic and Latin. B) Catholic and Orthodox. C) Byzantine and Ottoman. D) Greek and Roman.

D) An item of moveable personal property.

In "chattel" slavery, the slave is, in legal terms: A) Assigned only to agricultural labor. B) Communally owned by an enslaving state. C) Temporarily contracted to work as a slave. D) An item of moveable personal property.

C) India.

In 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to __________. A) South Africa. B) Mecca. C) India. D) China.

A) Francis Xavier.

In 1549 the Franciscan missionary ___________ landed in Japan. A) Francis Xavier. B) Ignatius Loyola. C) Peter Canisius. D) Matteo Ricci.

C) London.

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. A) Berlin. B) St. Petersburg. C) London. D) Birmingham.

D) Chivalry.

In his preface, Cervantes claimed he had written Don Quixote of La Mancha to "ridicule the absurdity" of notions of ___________. A) Religion. B) Windmill farming. C) Misogyny. D) Chivalry.

D) Intolerable.

In response to the "Boston Tea Party", Britain closed the harbor, demanded restitution, and passed the so-called Coercive Acts (called the "_______ Acts" in the American colonies). A) Understandable. B) Abominable. C) Stamp. D) Intolerable.

A) Hindustan.

In the 1550s, Mughal forces secured the eastern, southern, and western flanks of their lands, anchoring Islam with the territory they called "__________". A) Hindustan. B) India. C) Punjab. D) Outer Mughalia.

D) Sometimes followed by the freedman's acquisition of his own slaves.

In the seventeenth century, the process of manumission was: A) Gradually expanded, in order to facilitate social mobility across the "color line." B) Rendered impossible by prohibitive taxation. C) A rarity that elicited much favorable response. D) Sometimes followed by the freedman's acquisition of his own slaves.

A) Cotton.

Indian _________ calicoes (named for the Indian port of Calicut) proved immensely popular in Europe for underwear and summer clothing. A) Cotton. B) Linen. C) Wool. D) Silk.

B) Daily newspapers.

Coffeehouses allowed the literate urban public to meet, read __________, and exchange ideas. A) Royal proclamations encouraging their proliferation. B) Daily newspapers. C) Humanist Biblical translations. D) Their fortunes in overturned coffee grounds.

D) Haitians.

After achieving independence, the ________ elevated their spoken language, Kreyòl, into their national identity. A) Scots. B) Germans. C) French. Correct Response D) Haitians.

C) Hausa.

Although they were under frequent attack by Songhay and Kanem-Bornu during the period 1500-1800, the _________ kingdoms enjoyed periods of independence during which many of the ruling clans converted to Islam. A) São Tomé. B) Loango. C) Hausa. D) Dahomey.

B) South Carolina.

An example of a Creole language that has survived for centuries is Gullah, used by the isolated communities along the coastal islands of Georgia and _______. A) The Bahamas. B) South Carolina. C) Haiti. D) Florida.

C) Jesuit.

Armillary spheres and a celestial globe were cast by Chinese artisans to the specifications of the ________ court mathematician Ferdinand Verbiest in the 1680s. A) Manchu. B) Calvinist. C) Jesuit. D) Russian.

C) Joshua.

As a proponent of Copernican heliocentrism, Galileo seemed to contradict the passage in the Hebrew Bible's Book of ___________, in which God stops the sun in the sky for a day. A) Jonah. B) Ezekiel. C) Joshua. D) Genesis.

A) Chile.

As a result of its winning the War of the Pacific (1879-1884), _________ gained access to rich nitrate deposits and mining cities. A) Chile. B) Peru. C) Bolivia. D) Argentina.

C) Saint-Domingue.

At the time of the French Revolution, ________ produced nearly half of the world's sugar and coffee. A) Brazil. B) Saint-Martin. C) Saint-Domingue. D) Martinique.

C) Portuguese.

Between 1434 and 1472, through a combination of private and public expeditions, _________ mariners explored the African coast as far east as the Bight of Benin. A) British. B) Spanish. C) Portuguese. D) Dutch.

C) Buenos Aires.

By 1800, the viceroyalty of La Plata, with the rising port of _________, had grown through contraband trade with Great Britain. A) Rio de Janeiro. B) Caracas. C) Buenos Aires. D) Valparaiso.

D) Encomiendas.

By means of land-labor grants called __________, Spanish entrepreneurs were entitled to use forced indigenous or imported slave labor to exploit natural resources in the New World. A) Haciendas. B) Cabildos. C) Criollos. D) Encomiendas.

D) Lisbon.

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. A) Constantinople. B) Dublin. C) Venice. D) Lisbon.

A) Ronin.

Chikamatsu Monzaemon's most famous play is based on a real incident, in which the daimyo of 47 samurai was killed by a political opponent, leaving them as _________--masterless. A) Ronin. B) Kabuki. C) Bunraku. D) Noh.

B) Havana.

José Antonio Aponte, head of a Yoruba confraternity (cabilde) in __________, led an abortive revolt against Spanish control in 1812. A) Mexico City. B) Havana. C) Montevideo. D) Bahia.

B) Slave raids.

Portuguese colonial cities and Jesuits repeatedly clashed over the ____________ of the "pioneers" (bandeirantes) into the Brazilian interior. A) Tax evasion. B) Slave raids. C) Silver mining. D) Scientific discoveries.

A) Dutch.

Spain refused to recognize the "United Provinces of the ____________ Republic" until 1648. A) Dutch. B) Catalan. C) Belgian. D) English.

A) Triangular.

The Atlantic system or the "_________" trade connected the American colonies with Africa and Europe. A) Triangular. B) Devil's. C) Hateful. D) Circular.

A) Russian.

The Danish mariner Peter von Sivers rose to the position of admiral in the _________ fleet. A) Russian. B) British. C) Swedish. D) French.

C) Édouard Manet.

The Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, June 19, 1867, was painted by __________. A) Venustiano Carranza. B) Pancho Villa. C) Édouard Manet. D) Eugène Delacroix.

B) Amritsar.

The Golden Temple in the city of ________ became the religious center of the Sikhs, and they defended their faith against the repressive policies of Aurangzeb. A) Gwalior. B) Amritsar. C) Calcutta. D) Srinagar.

B) Theodore Roosevelt.

The Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts were passed during the presidency of _________. A) Woodrow Wilson. B) Theodore Roosevelt. C) Franklin D. Roosevelt. D) William McKinley.

A) Reliquary.

The Qianlong emperor built a Tibetan version of the Buddhist stupa, or __________, for the visit of the Panchen Lama in 1779. A) Reliquary. B) Retreat center. C) Statue. D) Altar.

C) Sinan.

The Shehzade and Süleymaniye mosques in Istanbul and the Selimiye mosque in Edirne were designed by __________. A) Süleyman I. B) Michelangelo. C) Sinan. D) Devșirme.

A) El Dorado.

The Spanish quest for the mythical ____________ or "golden city" was fruitless. A) El Dorado. B) El Jefe. C) Del Rio. D) Shangri-La.

A) Mexico.

The United States faced the vital question of how to incorporate new territory after its war with _________ from 1846 to 1848. A) Mexico. B) Great Britain. C) The Confederate States of America. D) Russia.

C) Japanese.

The _______ ceramicist Chojiro preferred highly rustic, rough-hewn earthenware designs with glazes that formed spontaneous designs when fired—the famous "raku" ware. A) Chinese. B) Dutch. C) Japanese. D) Korean.

B) Tokugawa.

The _______ shoguns adopted Neo-Confucianism as the governing ideology, thus joining the commonwealth of Confucian "religious civilizations" in the region. A) Hideyoshi. B) Tokugawa. C) Ashikaga. D) Minamoto.

B) Portuguese.

"Auto-da-fé" means "act of faith" in the ___________ language. A) Italian. B) Portuguese. C) Latin. D) Spanish.

B) Guadalupe.

A Native American reported an appearance of Our Lady of _________ in 1531, in a place where the native goddess Tonantzin used to be venerated. A) Acapulco. B) Guadalupe. C) Tlaxcala. D) Lourdes.

B) 1657.

A four-way struggle broke out among the sons of Shah Jahan upon his death in ________. A) 1605. B) 1657. C) 1627. D) 1707.

D) Caudillismo.

Landowners of self-sufficient plantations in many parts of Latin America supported governmental ____________, the same kind of authoritarian and paternalistic form of action that they practiced on their estates. A) Científicos. B) Mit'a. C) Patronato. D) Caudillismo.

A) Its supposed orginal Taíno.

Louverture became emperor of Haiti, renaming Saint-Domingue after: A) Its supposed orginal Taíno. B) An African deity. C) A variety of sugar cane. D) His wife.

A) Two months.

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453. A) Two months. B) One week. C) One year. D) Six months.

B) 1845.

Mexico refused to recognize Texan national independence, and the state of Texas entered the United States in ___________. A) 1853. B) 1845. C) 1836. D) 1861.

C) Shia Islam.

Mughal relations with Safavid Persia, where _________ was the official state religion, meant a certain influence on the Mughal court was unavoidable. A) Sikhism. B) Sufism. C) Shia Islam. D) Sunni Islam.

D) Strange.

One of the richest glimpses into local Chinese society comes from Pu Songling's __________ Tales from a Chinese Studio. A) True. B) 1001. C) Unfinished. D) Strange.

C) The government declared war on Austria.

Patriotic feelings were roused in France in April 1792, when: A) Marie-Antoinette was executed in the Place de la Révolution. B) Napoleon invaded Egypt. C) The government declared war on Austria. D) The British were defeated at Trafalgar.

D) French.

The most successful _________ settlement in North America was in the subtropical district at the mouth of the Mississippi River, called "Louisiana", where some 300 settlers and 4000 African slaves founded sugar plantations. A) Spanish. B) English. C) Dutch. D) French.

D) 1820.

The new American republic fell far short of what we would consider today to be "representative", since, until _______, voting rights were restricted to white males with property. A) a)1790. B) b)1863. C) 1812. D) 1820.

A) Lines of latitude.

The portolan (nautical chart) drawn by Pedro Reinel is the earliest known map to include _____________. A) Lines of latitude. B) The Americas. C) Compass lines. D) Wind directions.

C) Nzinga.

The resourceful Queen ________ of Ndongo sometimes negotiated with the Portuguese and fought guerilla campaigns against them at others. A) Khoi. B) Beatriz Kimpa Vita. C) Nzinga. D) Askiya.

A) Benin.

The ruler Ewuare was the first to rise to dominance over chiefs (azuma) and assume the title of king (obo) over _________. A) Benin. B) Ethiopia. C) Chad. D) Kongo.

A) Racial mixture.

The term "casta" originated in the desire of the Iberian and Creole settlers to draw distinctions among degrees of ___________. A) Racial mixture. B) Commitment to Catholicism. C) Age and establishment of possession. D) Wealth and status.

A) 7400.

The total number of Communards killed during the 1871 uprising is now estimated to be at most _________. A) 7400. B) 1000. C) 28,000. D) 30,000.

A) Encouraged.

To support the mining centers and administrative cities, the Spanish colonial government ___________ the development of agricultural estates (haciendas). A) Encouraged. B) Heavily taxed. C) Suppressed. D) Dismissed as impractical.

D) Barometer.

A mathematician and assistant of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli experimented with mercury-filled tubes to lay the groundwork for the first ___________. A) Steam engine. B) Thermometer. C) Telescope. D) Barometer.

C) Dutch.

After the Manchus captured Beijing, some Ming loyalists fled to the island of Taiwan, where they expelled the ________, who had established a trading base there. A) Japanese. B) British. C) Dutch. D) Portuguese.

C) Hinduism.

Akbar married the Rajput princess Manmati, despite her adherence to: A) Christianity. B) Sikhism. C) Hinduism. D) Shiite Islam.

B) Piedmont-Sardinia.

Count Camillo di Cavour, the prime minister of _________, was the politician who did the most to realize Italy's unification. A) The Grand Duchy of Tuscany. B) Piedmont-Sardinia. C) The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. D) Austria.

D) Geneva.

Despite his appearance in the city in 1536, it was well into the 1550s before John Calvin's form of Protestantism prevailed in __________. A) Vassy. B) Paris. C) Edinburgh. D) Geneva.

B) Morelos.

From his base of operations in _________, in south-central Mexico, Emiliano Zapata began to occupy sugar plantations and distribute plantation land to his campesinos (laborers and tenant farmers). A) Yucatán. B) Morelos. C) Chiapas. D) Chihuahua.

D) Qing.

Jesuit missionaries were at times welcomed into China and Japan, but were ultimately rejected as "subversive" elements by the ____ and the Tokugawa. A) Yangban. B) Protestant British imperial advisors. C) Manchu emperors. Correct Response D) Qing.

B) Falkland Islands.

Juan Manuel de Rosas was frustrated at being unable to stop the British annexation of the __________. A) Turks and Caicos. B) Falkland Islands. C) Pampas. D) Tierra del Fuego.

B) Nahuatl.

Juana Inés de la Cruz secretly studied Latin, Greek, and _________ in her maternal grandfather's library. A) Mayan. B) Nahuatl. C) Hebrew. D) French.

D) Pirates.

Privateers were individual entrepreneurs who were virtually indistinguishable from: A) Communal farmers. B) Diggers. C) Slave traders. D) Pirates.

B) Lame.

The end of the fourteenth century marked the stunning rise of Temur Gurgan, who was widely known from the Persian rendering of his name as Timur the _____. A) Bloody. B) Lame. C) Son of Genghis. D) Rising Sun.

C) Cacao.

The family of Simón Bolívar owned _______ plantations worked by African slaves and was engaged in colonial trade. A) Banana. B) Coffee. C) Cacao. D) Sugar.

D) Lutheran.

The main goal of Gustavus II Adolphus's intervention in the Thirty Years' War was the creation of a Swedish-_________ centralized state around the Baltic Sea. A) Anglican. B) Calvinist. C) Catholic. D) Lutheran.

D) 1492.

The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate in __________. A) 1497. B) 1481. C) 1517. D) 1492.

C) Olaudah Equiano.

The memoir of the former slave and abolitionist __________ would help push the movement of liberating slaves forward in the nineteenth century. A) Harriet Martineau. B) Bartolomé de las Casas. C) Olaudah Equiano. D) William Wilberforce.

C) Aurangzeb.

__________ re-imposed the hated jizya tax on non-Muslims, which had been abolished by Akbar. A) Gobind Singh. B) Dara Shikoh. C) Aurangzeb. D) Khurram.

B) Topkapı Palace.

Under Süleyman "the Magnificent" most of the Janissaries were stationed in barracks in and near the _____________. A) Austrian border. B) Topkapı Palace. C) Hagia Sophia. D) Shehzade Mosque.

C) Tenochtitlán.

When the city of ___________ was captured in November 1519, the emperor Moctezuma II was forced to swear allegiance to Emperor Charles V. A) Veracruz. B) Tlaxcala. C) Tenochtitlán. D) Campeche.

C) Manila.

____ became a vital axis of world trade, with Chinese merchants exchanging spices and luxury goods such as porcelain there for Spanish silver from the Americas. A) Guangzhou. B) Bombay. C) Manila. D) Tokyo.

C) Jahangir.

________ turned the running of his empire over to his wife, the striking Persian princess Nur Jahan, on several occasions, and she mediated the succession wars after his death. A) Akbar. B) Shah Jahan. C) Jahangir. D) Babur.

C) Charles V.

_________ inherited Habsburg territories throughout Europe and the Americas when he became Emperor in 1516. A) Vlad III Dracul of Wallachia. B) Philip II. C) Charles V. D) Süleyman I "the Magnificent."