Exam 1
Experiments in the _____ with moveable metal typeface resulted in the innovation of the printing press.
1430s
The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by __________.
1492
Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.
2 months
Due to rural economic expansion during the Mughal period, the population grew to _____ by 1800.
200
The basic administrative unit in Mughal India was the pargana which comprised of
A town and up to one hundred villages
James Oglethorpe's vision of the colony of Georgia included all of the following except;
An adoption of native Creek patterns of interaction with the natural environment.
After 1699, the city of ______ became a center of European trade and diplomacy with China.
Canton
Matteo Ricci was a Catholic missionary mainly in which country or region?
China
"Absolutism" meant a government in which the ruler could do literally anything he wanted, with absolutely no limitations whosoever on his power.
False
"Manumission" meant forcing, capturing, or selling a person into slavery.
False
Privateers were unarmed civilian merchant ships
False
Taiwan is located on a peninsula between China and Japan.
False
The "queue" hairstyle became a popular fashion among Chinese women during the Qing dynasty
False
The story of Anne Hutchinson demonstrates that the English colonies in America were fully committed to the principle of religious freedom.
False
The story of Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita demonstrates that openness and willingness of the Catholic Church to compromise and accept the blending of Christianity with traditional African beliefs and practices.
False
The term "Western Civilization" refers to the Native American empires of Mexico and Peru, because they were located in the Western Hempishere
False
The term "infantry" refers to breast-feeding of newborn children in upper class families by paid wet nurses hired from the lower class
False
What countries in Europe developed porcelain factories in the 18th century?
Germany and England
Brazil production of _____ in the 18th century, was a welcome bonanza for Portugal at the time of low agricultural prices.
Gold
Even thought he was outnumbered, Babur was able to defeat the Lodi ruler at Panipat because:
He possessed matchlock muskets and field cannon.
Leading a force of about 300 Spanish men, _______ defeated a much larger indigenous force at Tabasco in 1518.
Hernán Cortés
When Jahangir died in 1627, who succeeded him to the Mughal throne?
Jahan
Edo was the capital of which country or empire?
Japan
By the sixteenth century, the capital of Kongo, M'banza, was comparable in size to
London
The ruler with the longest reign in France was
Louis XIV
In 1557, the Portuguese had established the first European colony in China at ____, and they held it until 1999.
Macau
Juana Ines de la Cruz secretly studied Latin, Greek, and ______ in her maternal grandfather's library.
Nahuatl
______ writers, painters, and poets followed Humayun to India, where their talents enlivened the arts and helped developed Urdu verse forms.
Persian
Like his model Genghis Khan, Timur:
Proved surprisingly liberal in the treatment of at least some cities that surrendered.
Chikamatsu Monzaemon's most famous play is based on a real incident, in which the daimyo of 47 samurai was killed by a political opponent, leaving them as ________ - masterless
Ronin
Mughal relations with Safavid Persia, where _________ was the official state religion, meant a certain influence on the Mughal court was unavoidable.
Shia Islam
Mercantilist economic theory dictates that:
States should keep their economies blocked off from competitors and import as little and export as much as possible.
What name was given to an outgrowth of the criticism of the Wang Yangming school?
The Han learning movement
Between 250,000 and 1 million Taínos were killed when the Spanish came due to:
The Native Americans' lack of immunity against smallpox
Descartes concluded that a person, including himself, was composed of two radically different substances, a material substance that can be understood with the senses and another that consisted of:
The thinking mind
The most original contribution of Sinan to Ottoman architecture was:
To use up to eight slender pillars as hidden internal supports of the dome
"Devsirme" was the Ottoman empire's system of forcing boys from Christian families to serve as soldiers in the Sultan's army.
True
"Moriscos" were Muslims in Spain
True
Bartolome de Las Casas argued that Native Americans should not be enslaved
True
Bartolome de Las Casas helped create the "Black Legend" of Spanish cruelty
True
Maroons were people who escaped from slavery and created autonomous communities beyond the frontiers of colonial authority.
True
Steam engines were developed to assist in coal mining in Britain during the early 1700s.
True
Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztec empire
True
Unlike their counterparts in Spain, the cavalry ruling class of the Ottoman Empire
Was nonhereditary
Akbar had a sudden intense mystical experience in 1578, gradually developing a personal philosophy he called "sulh-i kull", meaning "_________".
peace with all
According to the infamous "_______ edict" in 1645, all males, regardless of ethnicity, were required on pain of death to adopt the Manchu hairstyle of a shaved forehead and long pigtail in the back.
queue
What caused the European immigrant population to rise in Brazil during the late seventeenth century?
the discovery of gold
The Mughals gave India one of its most prolific eras in terms of profusion and synthesis of literary genres, with _______ remaining the chief languages of literature in Islamic India.
Arabic and Persian
Popular culture in Chinese villages included all of the following except;
Confucianism
The El Escorial palace complex was built by Juan Bautista de Toledo in:
Madrid
Which navigator began ( though did not survive) the first round-the-world voyage in 1519?
Magellan
Scholars and administrators in traditional China were known as:
Mandarins
Issac Newton's _______ Principles of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687, was the towering achievement of the New Sciences.
Mathematical
Ming land taxes were paid to the government in ______ via installments
Silver
Which disease had the most devastating effect on Native American populations after 1492?
Smallpox
The Deccan is a geographical region in south-central India.
True
The Ming dynasty ended when the Qing dynasty began.
True
The balance of power between the monarchy and Parliament in Britain became known as "constitutionalism".
True
Nicola is Copernicus began what?
the Scientific Revolution or "New Sciences"
The Portuguese not only included India in their commercial network, but laid claim to _____ as well.
Brazil
