AP World History Ch. 13 & 14

Which of the following did Captain Cook and Christopher Columbus have in common?

Both of them kidnapped native people and took them home to study.

Initially, European colonists were overwhelmingly male in all of the following settlements EXCEPT:

British North America

Which of the following accurately describes silver in early seventeenth century China?

China's increasing reliance on the global trading system in silver made the CHinese economy vulnerable to dislocation.

Which of the following characteristics was NOT a common part of Chinese maps during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

Chinese maps exhibited a high degree of geometric and mathematical precision.

How were elite women's lives affected by the literary culture of late Ming and early Qing China?

Elite women were able to participate as writers, readers, and editors, but literary culture in general advocated for more constraints on their lives.

Creoles in Spanish and Portuguese colonies were drawn to Enlightenment ideas because:

Enlightenment ideas helped to justify their dissatisfaction with colonial rule.

After the shogun lifted the ban on foreign books in his kingdom in 1720, all of the following types of material circulated in Japan EXCEPT:

Enlightenment writings.

A consequence of the increasing wealth of European states was:

European states grew rich enough to wage almost unceasing wars against one another.

The French empire in seventeenth-century North America profited from which commodity?

Furs

Access to what natural resource allowed the Asante kingdom to begin its growth and development?

Gold

In general, how did Chinese and Islamic rulers respond to new ideas introduced by Europeans during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries?

They adopted outside knowledge when it suited their purposes, but remained confident in the superiority of their own ways of looking at the world.

Why did the Chinese devote a great deal of attention to the science of astronomy?

They believed that the stability of the kingdom depended on the emperor's ability to calculate correct dates for festivals, court sessions, mourning periods, and agricultural work.

During the first half of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire experienced a period of prosperity and delight in worldly things that was known as the ______.

Tulip Period

The system of government established by the Romanov dynasty in seventeenth-century Russia was:

absolutist

All of the following resulted from efforts to convert African slaves to Christianity EXCEPT:

the majority of European slave owners becoming convinced that Christianizing their slaves was a good idea.

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the decline of the Safavid Empire?

the presence of Europeans at court

An important topic among French and English political writers of the 17th and 18th centuries was:

the question of whether sovereignty originates in the king, the nobility, or the people.

Which country emerged as the world's strongest colonial power after the Seven Years' War?

Great Britain

The Comte de Buffon and fellow Europeans believed that human groups were more or less admirable according to how closely the resembled the people portrayed in which of the following types of artwork?

Greek nude sculptures

______ destabilized the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth century.

Inflation

How did the development of the Ottoman code of administrative law encourage cultural unity within the empire?

It provided a comprehensive, well-understood system of law that bridged differences among the many different social, religious, and legal traditions of the people who lived under Ottoman rule.

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the French Encyclopedia?

It singled out some regions, such as China, as examples that Europe should aspire to emulate.

The group that took advantage of the collapse of the Ming dynasty in the seventeenth century to establish the QIng dynasty came from:

Manchuria

The economic philosophy that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase it wealth at the expense of another was known as ______.

Mercantilism

Which of the following was NOT a way in which culture and the arts were used by artists or their patrons to send a social messages between 1500 and 1750?

Mughal painters used styles imported from Europe to communicate their wish for greater cultural openness.

Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Thirty Years' War?

Russia emerged as a great European power.

Safavid culture was a mixture of which two elements?

Shiite Islam and Persian culture

All of the following were destinations for slaves captured in sub-Saharan Africa EXCEPT:

Siberia

Which of the following is NOT an accurate match for the source of a globally traded commodity?

Silver from China

In what way had the Islamic world in the period between 1500 and 1780 changed from its earlier pattern of cultural development?

The Islamic world had developed three distinctive cultural traditions centered around the Mughal, Ottoman, and Safavid empires.

Which of the following does NOT describe events in the Kongo kingdom?

The Portuguese decisively defeated Queen Nzinga, opening the country to Portuguese control.

What role did Europeans play in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century slave trade in Africa?

They depended on indigenous political and trading networks that brought slaves to the coasts.

How did Dutch merchants contribute to the development of European commerce?

They established a stock exchange, a banking system, and a system for insuring cargoes.

How did Captain Cook's voyages to Australia reflect Enlightenment ideas?

They included scientists to describe and classify Australia's fauna, flora, people, and natural features.

What role did Tokugawa Japan's semi-independent "vassal" islands play for Japanese society as a whole?

They served as buffers that helped to define the identity of those who lived in Japan.

What ideas did European Enlightenment thinkers hold in common?

They wanted to improve their societies and search for universal, objective knowledge.

During the seventeenth century, rising levels of global commerce increased prosperity in the Ming and Mughal empires but also led to:

a decline in central control.

Tokugawa Ieyasu did all of the following EXCEPT:

arrange marriages among the children of local authorities to solidify political bonds.

The Dutch killed or enslaved nearly the entire population of the Bandanese Islands in order to:

buy nutmeg at a low price in the Bandanese Islands and sell nutmeg at many times that price in Europe.

Where did Enlightenment ideas circulate most broadly?

commercial centers and port cities

Francis Bacon's method of scientific inquiry asserted that:

conducting experiments was the only way that humans could begin to understand the workings of nature.

Which of the following best describes the initial relationship that developed between French colonists and Native Americans?

cooperation and French dependence on Indian knowledge

The English colonial model in the New World differed from other European states in that it:

depended on dispossessing Indians from their lands in order to accommodate a growing English settler population hungry for farmlands.

The Atlantic slave trade had the following effects on Africa EXCEPT:

increased cooperation between neighborhood villages.

All of the following factors contributed to the rise of the Enlightenment EXCEPT:

increased respect for the wisdom of classical and medieval authorities.

What was the Mughal emperors' major source of revenue?

land rents

Early Ottoman rulers' decision to avoid trade with the outside world:

led to black markets, making Ottoman rulers dependent on loans of silver from merchants.

The "Canton system":

only allowed European merchants to trade in the Chinese port of Canton.

The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb signaled a movement away from the empire's tradition of religious openness by:

ordering that all recently constructed non-Islamic places of worship be torn down.

Peninsulares were:

people born in Spain or Portugal who were living in their American colonies.

What types of characteristics did Carolus Linnaeus use in defining racial categories?

physical appearance and form of governance

The Ottoman tekkes schools that prepared students to become Sufi masters:

promoted social and religious solidarity among the Muslim subjects of the empire.

The most popular books published in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China were:

study guides for civil service examinations

The enclosure of common lands in the English countryside during the seventeenth century resulted in:

the commercialization of agriculture.

One consequence of the political and economic disorder in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was:

the emergence of breakaway provinces such as Mamluk Egypt.

British plans for the colonization of Australia included all of the following EXCEPT:

the exploitation of the native Aborigines as a labor force.

In general, the slave trade helped to shift wealth toward which African social group?

the warrior class

All of the following strategies contributed to the early success of the QIng dynasty EXCEPT:

their refusal to grant local forms of administration to the newly acquired territories.

One reason that English monarchs did NOT establish an absolutist regime was:

they were legally required to obtain the consent of Parliament in order to raise funds.

What was the political goal behind Doña Beatriz Kimpa Vita's claim to have received visions from St. Anthony?

to end the Kongolese civil war and restore unity to the kingdom