history midterm

All of the following are true EXCEPT:

(not)The Aztec city-state of Tenochtitlán and two others successfully rebelled against the reigning city-state in the Mexican Basin in 1428.

The largest Maya kingdoms grew to 50,000-60,000 inhabitants and reached astounding rural population densities of about ___________ persons per square mile.

1,000

All told, some _________ moriscos would be expelled from Spain during the next five years.

300,000

When the Catholic Reformation drove the New Sciences to northwestern Europe, the Italian-style academies gave way to chartered royal societies, the first of which was founded in ______ in 1660.

Britain

The most prominent of the small Maya states, Chichén Itzá in the northern lowlands, flourished from about ____________.

850 to 1000

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 of brutal treatment.

Assyrians

The _______ was a small and slender 60-foot-long ship with a stern rudder, square and lateen sails, and a magnetic compass (of Chinese origin).

Caravel

The work of the German ________ Martin Waldseemüller probably had an effect on the scientific theories of Nicolaus Copernicus.

Cartographer

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

Coffee

Wari and Tiwanaku had certain similarities, such as all of the following EXCEPT:

Despite obvious signs of rebellion, it is clear that the commoners respected and protected temples and temple sculptures.

The practice of the devșirme contradicted Islamic law, which:

Forbade the enslavement of "peoples of the Book".

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

__________ was the first institution of higher learning in North America, devoted to teaching the "correct" balanced Calvinist Protestantism.

Harvard College

The lasting achievement of the Marquise de Châtelet was:

Her translation of Newton's Mathematical Principles from Latin into French.

An early indicator of the significance of the money economy in the Ottoman Empire was the military institution of the _________, troops of conscripted Christian boys who received salaries from the central treasury.

Janissaries

The ruler with the longest reign in France was:

Louis XIV.

All of the following persons and/or institutions determinedly worked to popularize science EXCEPT:

Protestant churches and Sunday schools.

"Intendants" were:

Representatives of the French crown who kept an eye on provincial office holders.

A(n) __________ warrior organization called the Safavids proclaimed 14-year-old Ismail their Hidden Imam in 1501.

Shiite

Scholars have concluded that Tiwanaku emigrants established colonies some 200 miles to the west of their settlement on the basis of:

The goods that were exchanged between the villages and the Tiwanaku capital.

By 1750, the armies in larger European countries were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

The pikemen were still the most effective protection for musketeers.

The Aztec foundation myth has all of the following elements EXCEPT:

Their hunter/warrior patron god ordered them to show their gratitude by the sacrifice of virgin maidens at the beginning of each lunar cycle.

After conquering a city-state, the Incas instituted a decimal system of population organization to provide the necessary numbers for the mit'a, or '__________'.

To take a turn

Among the English colonists in North America, the first to demand participation in the colonial administration were _________.

Virginia tobacco growers

Philip II was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1575 and sue for peace for the Ottomans in 1580 because:

He had failed to suppress a ruinously expensive rebellion in the Netherlands.

The problems identified in the textbook as leading to the deterioration of the late Mayan states included all of the following EXCEPT:

The area experienced uncontrollable population growth, as was true in China.

All of the following is true of the period called "The Renaissance," EXCEPT:`

Byzantine, or Eastern Orthodox, Christianity became more influential in Western Europe, weakening the Roman papacy and leaving it vulnerable to Protestant incursions.

The outstanding painter of Spain during Philip II's reign was El Greco, who had received his early training in his native _____________.

Crete