Chapter 13 World History Quiz 2

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the largest group of immigrants to the Americas came from:

Africa.

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.

A consequence of the increasing wealth of European states was:

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

Fluctuations in commodity prices had little effect on the stability of states during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (True or False)

False

The Mughal dynasty made a successful effort to develop a naval presence in the Indian Ocean to forestall the growing European influence in the region. (True or False)

False

The demographic impact of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was as devastating as the impact of Afro-Eurasian diseases on Native Americans in the sixteenth century. (True or False)

False

Under the French model of absolutism, to whom was the king accountable?

God

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

Great Britain

_______ destabilized the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth century.

Inflation

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

Manchuria

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

Siberia

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

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

Why can it be said that Mughal rulers were victims of their own success?

The combination of prosperity and dependence on local elites allowed the local elites to become more autonomous.

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.

Why did the Tokugawa shoguns limit foreign traders' access to Japan?

They feared that the growth of trade would orient commercial activity away from the capital.

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.

After 1715, mercantilist wars were mostly conducted outside of Europe as empires fought over colonial possessions. (True or False)

True

After having initially welcomed trade and Christianity into Japan in the sixteenth century, Tokugawa officials banned Christianity and expelled missionaries from Japan. (True or False)

True

In general, English colonists had a much more antagonistic relationship with Indians in North America than did French colonists. (True or False)

True

Many people who were captured and enslaved in the Atlantic slave trade died before leaving Africa. (True or False)

True

The English and French profited from the colonization of the Americas despite the lack of precious metals in their colonies. (True or False)

True

The Qing dynasty expanded Chinese control into Tibet and central Asia.

True

Under the absolutist system of King Louis XVI of France, the king could overrule his jurists and proclaim law. (True or False)

True

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.

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

absolutist.

Tokugawa Ieyasu did all of the following EXCEPT:

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

How did sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europeans change Southeast Asian social structures?

by replacing established trade routes with new ones serving European interests

The Oyo Empire:

conducted annual military campaigns.

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 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

Which of the following set of goods were introduced to Indians in North America by Europeans?

guns, alcohol, horses

How did the commercial network run by the Ekpe society in West Africa enforce the delivery of promised slaves by traders?

holding pawns who, if traders didn't deliver, would be sold instead of the missing slaves

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

increased cooperation between neighborhood villages.

African slaves in the Americas resisted the conditions of their enslavement through all of the following EXCEPT:

killing their children so they wouldn't have to live as slaves

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

mercantilism

The "Canton system":

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

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) sought to establish a monopoly over the trade in:

spices.

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.

An important topic among French and English political writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was:

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

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

Mercantilist thinkers believed that the purpose of colonies was:

to enrich their European motherlands.