World History 1112 - Final

Beginning in the 1900s and on the basis of the study of terra preta, scholars proposed that indigenous peoples in the Amazoinian 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 Tenochtitlan.

Half

Although they were under frequent attack by Songhay and Kanem-Bornu during the period 1500-1800, the ________ kingdoms enjoyed periods of independence during which Manu of the ruling clans converted to Islam.

Hausa

An exception sent out the Portuguese King _______ the Navigator captured the city of Ceuta on the North African coast in 1415.

Henry

The familiar term "pajamas" comes from the _______ word pajama, the lightweight summer garments worn in India and popularized as sleepwear in Europe.

Hindi

In the 1550s, Mughal forces secured the eastern, southern, and western flanks of their lands, anchoring Islam with the territory they called "__________".

Hindustan

A member of the _________ family of rulers, Frederick II "the Great" of Prussia enlarged his army and pursued an aggressive foreign policy.

Hohenzollern

The unequal relations between Tutsi cattle breeders and ________ farmers froze into a castle system during the 19th century colonial occupations.

Hutu

Jahangir's son Khusrau was forced to watch as his comrades were put to death by ____________.

Impalement

Barbados was settled initially in 1627 by English planters, who grew tobacco, cotton, indigo, and ginger, employing English and Irish ____________.

Indentures laborers

in 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Game on a voyage to ___________.

India

__________ turned the running of his empire over to his wife, the striking Persian princess Jur Jahan, on several occasions, and she meditated the succession wars after his death.

Jahangir

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.

Joshua

Copernicus began his studies at the University of __________, the only eastern European school to offer courses in astronomy.

Krakow

The end of the 14th century marked the stunning rise of Temur Gurgan, who was widely known from the Persian rendering of his name as Timur the __________________.

Lame

After being kidnapped by Christian pirates, Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan was baptized under the name of Pope _________.

Leo X

Fought in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Christians won the Battle of _____ thanks to their superior naval tactics.

Lepanto

The portolan map (nautical chart) drawn by Pedro Reinel is the earliest known map to include __________.

Line of lattitude

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

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

Louis XIV

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.

Lutheran

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

Muskets

The resourceful Queen ______ of Ndongo sometimes negotiated with the Portuguese and fought guerrilla campaigns against them.

Nzinga

The Aztecs created an imperial polity from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Tarasco 200 miles to the northwest, to ________, over 500 miles to the south.

Oaxaca

The chacmool, or ________, can be found in several Mesoamerican sites, as far north as Tenochtitlan and Tula.

Offering Table

The memoir of the former slave and abolitionist _________ would help much the movement of liberating slaves forward in the 19th century.

Olaudah Equiano

Zahir ud-Din, better known as _______, or "the tiger", defeated the rulers of Delhi and established the Mughal empire in india.

Persian

Privateers were individual entrepreneurs who were virtually indistinguishable from:

Pirates

"Auto-da-fe" means "Act of Faith" in the _______ language.

Portugese

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.

Portugese

Mughal relations with Safavid Persia, where _________ was the official state religion, meant a certain influence on the Mughal court was unavoidable.

Shia Islam

The Shehzade and Suleymaniye mosques in Istanbul and the Selimiye mosque in Europe 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 Empires, in the __________ century, were in the northern Ecuador as well as on the eastern slopes of the Andes.

Sixteenth

In the seventeenth century, the process of manumissions was?

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

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 _______.

South Carolina

_________ was the only North American colony, and later state, in which African Americans outnumbered those of European descent.

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

Martin Luther protested the sale of indulgences in ________ with 95 theses and addressed to his archbishop.

1517

The most prominent of the small Maya states, Chichen Itza in the northern lowlands, flourished from about _______.

850-1000

Aurangzeb spent much of the last two decades of his life campaigning against the _________.

Hindu Marathas

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

Hinduism

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

The El Escorial palace complex was built by Juan Bautista de Toledo in ___________.

Madrid

The Mughals appointed members of the new ________ elite to positions in the provincial governments and state ministries.

Mansabdar

Issac Newton's ___________ principles of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687, was the towering achievement of the New Sciences.

Mathematical

Around 900 migrants speaking the language ________ arrived in the vicinity of the collapsed Teotihuacan.

Nahuatl

Tlatelco was

One of the islands formed in the Valley of Mexico.

In the course of his 14th century journeys, Ibn Battuta passed through western Anatolia and Constantinople and was impressed by the rising power of the _________.

Ottomans

For the English, the acquisition of Bombay (Mumbai) from the _________ in the 1660s gave the British East India Company a superb harbor.

Portugese

Toward the middle of the fifteenth century, Aztec rulers set up a military school system for the sons of the elite plus those commoners who were to become __________.

Priests

The Danish mariner Peter von Sivers rose to the position of admiral in the ________ fleet.

Russian

In the 1440s, Portuguese mariners raided 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

Akbar wore his hair long under his turban like the __________.

Sikhs

Pulque was?

A fermented drink made from the pulp of the maguey plant.

The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by __________.

1492

Inconsolable after the loss of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan built a magnificent tomb complex in her honor near _________.

Agra

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.

Amritsar

Acquiring wealth with the help of money and thereby perhaps gaining a glimpse of one's fate became one of the hallmarks of ____________.

Calvanism

___________ inherited Habsburg territories throughout Europe and the Inca and Aztec Empires in the Americas when 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 "ridicule the absurdity" of notions of ___________.

Chivalry

The Ottomans benefited from the trade of a new commodity, _________, which was produced in Ethiopia and Yemen.

Coffee

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

Cotton

The southern Peruvian city-state of _______, with its Incan elite, emerged in the early fifteenth century at the head of a highly militaristic, conquering polity.

Cuzco

Mercantilist economic theory dictates that?

States should keep their economies blocked off from competitors and import as little and export as much as possible.

Growing to a city of 30,000 inhabitants bu the seventh century, Wari enlarged its agriculture base through the expansion of __________.

Terrace Farming

Muhammad Ghauth Gwaliori's ___________ tapped sources from Hindu and Muslim astrology, Jewish Kabbala traditions, and Sufi mysticism.

The Five Jewels

The Gunpowder Empires, named for their reliance on cannons and small arms in their military campaigns, included all but:

The Habsburg

Under Suleyman "The Magnificent" most of the Janissaries were stationed in barracks in and near the ___________.

Topkapi Palace

The Atlantic system of the "______________" trade connected the American colonies with Africa and Europe.

Triangular

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.

Two Months

By the second half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was a vast multiethnic and multireligious state of some ______________ inhabitants.

15 Million

A four-way struggle broke out among the sons of Shah Jahan upon his death in ________.

1657

In many places, the _______ -mile Incan road network still exists today.

25,000

By some estimates, there were more _________ slave uprisings involving 10 or more slaves during the four centuries of Atlantic slavery.

250

With __________ inhabitants in the sixteenth century, the capital of Kongo, M'banza, was comparable in size to many European cities at the time.

60,000

All of the following are true of the use of quipu by the Incas except:

700 of them have been deciphered and translated.

The Jewish community of _________ excommunicated Baruch Spinoza for heresy, since he seemed to make God immanent in the world.

Amsterdam

Portable water was made available in Tenochtitlan by means of?

An aqueduct that arrived on one of the western cause-ways.

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.

Assyrians

______________ reimposed the hated jizya tax on non-Muslims, which had been abolished by Akbar.

Aurangzeb

A mathematician and assistant of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli experimented with mercury-filled tubes to lay the groundwork for the first ___________.

Barometer

On St. _______________'s Day in August 1572, the Catholic king and aristocracy pf France perpetrated a wholesale slaughter of thousands.

Bartholomew

The ruler Ewuare was the first to rise to dominance over chefs (Azuma) and assume the title of king (obo) over _________.

Benin

Coffeehouses allowed the literate urban public to meet, read __________, and exchange ideas.

Daily Newspapers

The Mughals built fortresses at strategic points throughout their inner domains as well as along the frontier, and the largest was the Red Fort in ___________.

Dehli

As part of the African ________, Africans moved to nearly all parts of the Americas primarily as a result of the transatlantic slave trade.

Diaspora

Spain refused to recognize the "United Provinces of the ____________ Republic" until 1648.

Dutch

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, an Incan female would generally spend ______ years within the "House of Chosen Women"

Four

"Renaissance" thinkers and artists considered their period of time "rebirth" (the literal meaning of the word in the ______ language).

French

Because _________ universities and scientific academies refused to admit women, in contrast to their counterparts in other countries, the salon became a bastion of well-placed and respected female scholars.

French

Despite his appearance in the city in 1536, it was well into the 1550s before John Calvin's form of Protestantism prevailed in __________.

Geneva

After the defeat of the Songhay, much of the trans-Saharan gold trade was siphoned off by the Portuguese on what became known as the Gold Coast (modern ________).

Ghana

Humanism was an intellectual movement focused on human culture, in such fields as philosophy, philology, and literature, and based on the corpus of ___________ texts.

Greek and Roman