History midterm

The Manchus who ruled China constituted about ____% of the population:

2

The New Sciences were allowed to flourish in northern Europe, especially in Netherlands and England, mainly because of:

A certain liberty of investigation that other areas lacked

The "Newtonian synthesis" was:

A fusion of the fields of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and theology

The Mughals' primary challenge for control over Hindustan and the crucial Silk Road trade came from the _________ princess and their Persian allies

Afghan

________ reimposed the hated jizya tax on non-muslims, which has been abolished by Akbar.

Aurangzeb

The ___________ was a particularly Portuguese or Spanish show trial in which the state, through the holy office of the inquisition, judges a person's commitment to the Catholic faith

Auto-de-fe

The _______ East India Company, having established its case at a Calcutta in 1690, soon sought to expand its operations to China

British

________ inherited Habsburg territories throughout Europe and the Inca and Aztec Empires in the Americas when he became Emperor in 1516.

Charles V

The Spaniards' primary justification for their conquest of the New World was:

Christ's command to convert the heathen populations in the newly discovered lands

Indian _________ calicoes (named for the Indian port of Calicut) proved immensely popular in Europe for underwear and summer clothing

Cotton

____________ were American-born descendants of European settlers, primarily of Liberian ancestry

Creloes

The Columbian Exchange characterizes the transfer of plants, animals, and _________ between the Americans and the rest of the world

Diseases

The Spaniards established land-labor grants or ________ entitling the land grantee the use of forced indigenous or imported slave labor on this land for the purpose of exploiting its agricultural and mineral resources

Encomiendas

As Mughal power was sapped by the revolts of the Marathas and other in the eighteenth century, the armed forced of the _______ became important players in regional politics

European trading companies

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

Ferret out any people whose beliefs were contrary to Church teachings

The practice of the devsirme contradicted Islamic law, which:

Forbade the enslavement of "peoples of the book"

Because ___________ universities and scientific academics refused to admit women, in contrast to their counterparts in other countries, the salon became a bastion of well-placed and respected female students

French

The alliance between the Ottomans and the ___________ horrified western Europe in 1534 because it indicated that the Ottoman Empire was a player in European politics

French

In order to precent any serious challenged to the samurai class's military role, the Tokugawa:

Gave up firearms, ordering that they be seized and destroyed expect for a fw museum relics

As was the case in China, the "inner" world of the household and the "outer" world of business, politics and warfare were clearly defined by _______.

Gender

Akbar married the Rajput princess Manmati, despite her adherence to:

Hinduism

In france, Protestants were known as

Hugenots

European manufactures of porcelain :

Imitated Chinese designs in porcelain before they could make their own.

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

India

Since the Portuguese had pioneered a direct route from Europe to India via Africa the ___________ became another front of confrontation between Christians and Muslims in the race to gain dominance over the lucrative spice trade

Indian Ocean

The huge commitment of Chinese troops against the forces of the Japanese leader Hideyoshi during his attempted invasion of ________ and Chine from 1592 and 1598 weakened the Ming Dynasty and lead to the rise of the Manchus

Korea

The end of the fourteenth century marked the stunning rise of Temur Gurgan, who was widely known from the Persian reading of this name as Timur the _______.

Lame

Despite the appearance of his beaming benevolence at Versailles, the "absolutists" rule of ___________ was a complex mixture of centralized and decentralized forces

Louis XIV

The pattern of settlement in North America in the seventeenth century followed the trail of French, English and Dutch ________ who grew their own food and traded with the local natives fro furs

Merchant investors

Toward the first half of the fifteenth century, the Ottoman sultans equipped their Janissaries with cannons and ___________.

Muskets

In the wake of the collapse of the Mongol Empire, the largest in world history, the Central Asian heartland of the Turkic peoples evolved into a ______ many of whose rulers claimed descent from Genghis Khan

Patchwork of smaller states

After the reimposition of the jizya tax on non-muslims, Hindus who had newly converted to Islam:

Preserved their caste and clan affiliations, especially in terms of profession

Like his model Genghis Khan, Timur:

Proves surprisingly liberal in the treatment of at least some cite that surrendered

Jesuit missionaries were at times welcomed into China and Japan, but were ultimately rejected as "subversive" elements by the ________ and the Tokugawa

Qing

The Japanese diary were:

Regional warlords

Governmental auction of the taxes in kind of a particular district to the highest bidder was known as ___________.

Tax farming

The Seven year's War in the New World was ultimately won by the superiority and tactical maneuvering of ____________ over the French forces

The British navy

Ignorant of Hinduism when he arrived to India, Vasco Da Game mistook the Indian religion for:

The Christianity of "Prester John"

Between 250,000 and 1 million Taínos were killed when the Spanish came due to :

The Native Americans' lack of immunity against smallpox

The high point of the Qing Dynasty was during the rule of

The Qianlong Emperor

The central objective of the "Glorious Revolution" in Britain was the:

The offering of a joint monarchy to the Protestant William the third and Mary the second

The Popes found Jesuit practices in China like ______ problematic

Using tea and rice for the Eucharist instead of bread and wine

Among the English colonist in North America, the first to demand participation in the colonial administration were ____________.

Virginia tobacco growers

By the mid-16th century, the conquistadors shifted from looting Native American empires and towns to exploiting native labor in __________ and in agriculture

Working silver, gold and mercury mines