exam 1 multiple choice questions

The most common means by which early modern empires expanded their territorial claims was through the use of:

firearms and soldiers

cotton textiles manufactured in ____________ were most in demand around the world in the 17th century.

india

Sugar plantations in the Western Hemisphere:

integrated growing, harvesting, and refining functions in one enterprise.

by 1600, __________ was the largest sugar producing region in the world.

Brazil

T or F: In the 17th century the Ming Dynasty faced an invasion of Manchu armies marching on Beijing

true

T or F: The Requerimiento (Requirement) was an explanation of what Spaniards were doing in the Americas.

true

T or F: The Sakoku Edict of 1635 prohibited Japanese from traveling abroad.

true

Which of the following occurred in the 16th century

Chinese goods began to flow to Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico)

In the late 16th century, Toyotomi Hideyoshi expelled ______ to limit their influence in Japan.

Christian missionaries

In the 17th century, the biggest challenges to the Spanish and Portuguese control of the Americas came to be:

English and French

Which of the following groups did NOT have a major trading outpost in South Asia by the mid-17th century

German

The Sunni Muslim ruler Akbar established the:

Mughal Empire

in 526 Afonso, the ruler of Congo, warned the king of Portugal that

Portuguese subjects were kidnapping and enslaving Afonso's subjects.

For most rulers during the 16 century, political power was rooted in:

claims of divine right

In the century after the Europeans first arrived in the Americas, the indigenous population of the western hemisphere:

declined dramatically

The rebels in the German Peasants' War:

demanded the right to hunt and gather wood in the areas around the villages

During the English Civil War, one of the revolutionaries' most radical acts was:

executing the king and abolishing the monarchy

T or F: In the mid 16th century the "New Laws" promulgated by the Spanish throne to reform Spanish treatment of the natives were adopted by other European monarchs in charging their settlers going to the New World.

false

T or F: In the mid-1520s, Martin Luther supported the rebel peasants of Upper Swabia because the claimed to be fighting based on the ideas he proposed.

false

T or F: The consolidation of strong central states in the 16th and early 17th century led to a struggle between the Ottoman and Spanish Empires for control over the Atlantic slave trade.

false

The chaos ans destruction wrought by the English Civil War contributed to future English leaders' acceptance of:

limits on the power of the monarchs

The biological old regime placed significant constraints on:

population growth

The use of the ________________ helped spread ideas about Protestantism.

printing press

In the primary source entitled "The Freedom of the Seas," Hugo Grotius argued:

that the Dutch had a right to trade anywhere in the world

Effects of the Colombian Exchange included or caused:

the introduction of the new products such as chocolate, vanilla, and maize, into European markets

In terms of political order, the concept of legitimacy refers to:

the way rulers justify their exercise of power

the consolidation of the ottoman empire in the 15th century contributed to:

the western European search for new trade routes to East Asia

In the 14th century, Afro-Eurasia may be said to have been polycentric because:

there was no single dominant religion, state, or ruler