Test 1
topkapi palace
Under Süleyman "the Magnificent" most of the Janissaries were stationed in barracks in and near the _____________.
could prevent noble sons from inheriting lands from their fathers
Unlike his counterparts like Isabella and Ferdinand, the Ottoman sultan:
founding colonies
Wari culture seems to have been more active in ________ than its Tiwanaku counterpart.
britain
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.
500,000
When the Portuguese conquered Brazil, the indigenous population was estimated to be nearly _________ inhabitants
tenochtitlan
When the city of ___________ was captured in November 1519, the emperor Moctezuma II was forced to swear allegiance to Emperor Charles V.
60000
With __________ inhabitants in the sixteenth century, the capital of Kongo, M'banza, was comparable in size to many European cities at the time.
south carolina
_______ was the only North American colony, and later state, in which African Americans outnumbered those of European descent
french
"Renaissance" thinkers and artists considered their period a time of "rebirth" (the literal meaning of the word in the _______ language).
hohenzollern
A member of the _________ family of rulers, Frederick II "the Great" of Prussia enlarged his army and pursued an aggressive foreign policy.
charles I
A standoff between the Parliament and King _________ of England (and Scotland) led to civil war and the king's execution in 1649.
food market
Adjacent to the main pyramid on the platform at the center of Tenochtitlán was a:
luxury items to be exchanged for other luxury items
African rulers sold slaves to the Europeans as:
leo x
After being kidnapped by Christian pirates, Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan was baptized under the name of Pope _________.
to take a turn
After conquering a city-state, the Incas instituted a decimal system of population organization to provide the necessary numbers for the mit'a, or '__________'.
was murdered, together with his unarmed retainers
After meeting Pizarro at the town square of Cajamarca in 1532, Atahualpa:
its urban residents were willing to pay higher taxes on manufactures and farming
Among most of the countries of Europe, the Netherlands was exceptional in its finances in that:
300,000
An estimated __________ Spaniards emigrated from Europe to the Americas between 1500 and 1800.
portuguese
Auto-da-fé" means "act of faith" in the ___________ language.
french
Because _________ universities and scientific academies refused to admit women, in contrast to their counterparts in other countries, the salon became a bastion of well-placed and respected female scholars.
the native americans lack of immunity against smallpox
Between 250,000 and 1 million Taínos were killed when the Spanish came due to:
gold
Brazil produced a total of 1000 tons of _________ in the eighteenth century, a welcome bonanza for Portugal at a time of low agricultural prices.
encomiendas
By means of land-labor grants called __________, Spanish entrepreneurs were entitled to use forced indigenous or imported slave labor to exploit natural resources in the New World.
250
By some estimates, there were more ________ slave uprisings involving 10 or more slaves during the four centuries of Atlantic slavery.
had been born in the americas
By the early seventeenth century, a powerful elite of Spanish who ___________, called Creoles, was in place to assist the Spanish administrators.
15 million
By the second half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was a vast multiethnic and multireligious state of some ______________ inhabitants.
their fortunes in overturned coffee grounds
Coffeehouses allowed the literate urban public to meet, read __________, and exchange ideas
died in the general massacre and pillaging
Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor, _________ after Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453.
krakow
Copernicus began his studies at the University of __________, the only eastern European school to offer courses in astronomy.
louis XIV
Despite the appearance of his beaming benevolence at Versailles, the "absolutist" rule of ____________ was a complex mixture of centralized and decentralized forces.
1430s
Experiments in the _______ with movable metal typeface resulted in the innovation of the printing press
bolivia
For 200 years after its founding in 1545, Potosí in modern ___________ produced over half of the silver of Spanish America
lepanto
Fought in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Christians won the Battle of _________ thanks to their superior naval tactics.
terrace farming
Growing to a city of 30,000 inhabitants by the seventh century, Wari enlarged its agricultural base through the expansion of __________.
lima
Having laid waste to Cuzco, Pizarro founded a new Andean capital at __________ in 1535.
an item of moveable personal property
In "chattel" slavery, the slave is, in legal terms:
india
In 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to __________
huguenots
In France, Protestants were known as
food source
In Tiwanaku society, llamas were used as transportation animals and as a __________.
25000
In many places, the ____________-mile Incan road network still exists today.
mathematical
Isaac Newton's ___________ Principles of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687, was the towering achievement of the New Sciences
an adoption of native creek patterns of interaction with the natural environment
James Oglethorpe's vision for the colony of Georgia included all of the following except:
the capture of jamaica by the british in 1655
Losses to the Spanish empire came in the mid-seventeenth century, beginning with:
ensure that government activities functioned properly
Louis XIV sent salaried, itinerant intendants around the provinces to:
bartholomew
On St. _______'s Day in August 1572, the Catholic king and aristocracy of France perpetrated a wholesale slaughter of thousands of Huguenots.
he had failed to suppress a ruinously expensive rebellion in the netherlands
Philip II was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1575 and sue for peace for the Ottomans in 1580 because:
an aqueduct that arrived on one of the western causeways
Potable water was made available in Tenochtitlán by means of:
pirates
Privateers were individual entrepreneurs who were virtually indistinguishable from:
a fermented drink made from the pulp of the maguey plant
Pulque was:
central african creoles from kongo and ndongo
Recent scholarship suggests that a key formative element in the development of culture and identity of Africans in the Americas lay in the influence of the:
the goods that were exchanged between the villages and the tiwanaku capital
Scholars have concluded that Tiwanaku emigrants established colonies some 200 miles to the west of their settlement on the basis of:
a few more captives might survive than on a ship that was less crowded
Some slave-ship captains favored the "tight packing" method, deliberately overcrowding their human cargo on a Middle Passage voyage on the assumption that:
dutch
Spain refused to recognize the "United Provinces of the ____________ Republic" until 1648.
a city established one of the islands in the valley of mexico
Tenochtitlaìn was:
triangular
The Atlantic system or the "_________" trade connected the American colonies with Africa and Europe.
ferret out any people whose beliefs were contrary to church teachings
The purpose of the Spanish Inquisition, as appointed by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1481, was to:
south carolina
An example of a Creole language that has survived for centuries is Gullah, used by the isolated communities along the coastal islands of Georgia and _______.
henry
An expedition sent out the Portuguese king ___________ the Navigator captured the city of Ceuta on the North African coast in 1415.
farmers
Around 1750, there were about 10,000 Boers (Dutch for "_______") in the Cape Colony, easily outnumbered by slaves.
Nahuatl
Around 900, migrants speaking the language __________ arrived in the vicinity of the collapsed Teotihuacán.
joshua
As a proponent of Copernican heliocentrism, Galileo seemed to contradict the passage in the Hebrew Bible's Book of ___________, in which God stops the sun in the sky for a day.
tithe paid to the church, which administration, at times, used for its own purposes
As in Spain, the only income tax in New Spain was the __________
classified and taxed as serfs
As part of his reforms, Tsar Peter I "the Great" ______________ the remaining free farmers outside the estate system of the aristocracy.
half
In the 15th century, more than ______ of the people in the Mexican Basic lived in cities like Tenochtitlán
sometimes followed by the freedman acquisition of his own slaves
In the seventeenth century, the process of manumission was:
a certain liberty of investigation that other areas lacked
The New Sciences were allowed to flourish in northern Europe, especially in the Netherlands and England, mainly because of:
mamluks
The Ottomans defeated the ____________ and took control of western Arabia, including the pilgrimage city of Mecca, in 1517.
southwestern united states
The Pueblo cultures, in today's ____________ were based on sophisticated irrigated farming systems and are known for their distinctive painted pottery styles.
el dorado
The Spanish quest for the mythical ____________ or "golden city" was fruitless
5 or 6 years
The average slave field hand on a sugar plantation was estimated to live:
sixteenth
The final provinces added to the Inca empire, in the __________ century, were in northern Ecuador as well as on the eastern slopes of the Andes.
was processed into a dye
The indigo plant, which _____________, contributed to a booming economy in South Carolina starting in the 1740s.
hutu
The unequal relations between Tutsi cattle breeders and ______ farmers froze into a caste system during the nineteenth-century colonial occupation
charles v
_________ inherited Habsburg territories throughout Europe and the Inca and Aztec Empires in the Americas when he became Emperor in 1516.
harvard college
__________ was the first institution of higher learning in North America, devoted to teaching the "correct" balanced Calvinist Protestantism
ethiopia
__________ would have been destroyed in a Muslim holy war had it not been for the timely arrival of a Portuguese fleet with artillery and musketeers in 1541.
a bluwark against spanish florida
The British colony of Georgia was founded in 1733 as:
diseases
The Columbian Exchange characterizes the transfer of plants, animals, and ________ between the Americas and the rest of the world
madrid
The El Escorial palace complex was built by Juan Bautista de Toledo in _____________.
using them to terrorize enemy armies
The Incans did all of the following with their mummies (mallquis) except:
storehouses
The Incas built tens of thousands of _________ everywhere in their empire, requiring subjects to supply the nearest one in their vicinity.
french
The alliance between the Ottomans and the __________ horrified western Europe in 1534 because it indicated that the Ottoman Empire was a player in European politics.
catholic parish system
The establishment of the _________ in Virginia in 1619 was an indication that the British would not follow the same policy in the New World as their Spanish counterparts.
textiles
The overseas ministry in Lisbon encouraged the manufacture of ________ in Brazil in an effort to render the province independent from British imports.
forbade the enslavement of "people of the book"
The practice of the devșirme contradicted Islamic law, which:
louis XIV
The ruler with the longest reign in France was:
850 to 1000
The most prominent of the small Maya states, Chichén Itzá in the northern lowlands, flourished from about ____________.
that a slave revolt would begin and spread
The slaveowners' greatest fear was:
cuzco
The southern Peruvian city-state of _________, with its Inca elite, emerged in the early fifteenth century at the head of a highly militaristic, conquering polity.
a fear-inducing tactic that was an innovation in aztec imperialism
The threat of human sacrifice was:
1517
Martin Luther protested the sale of indulgences in ________ with 95 theses addressed to his archbishop
2 months
Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453
states should keep their economies blocked off from competitors and import as little and export as much as possible
Mercantilist economic theory dictates that:
1620
Of the approximately 144,000 estimated Native Americans in New England in 1600, fewer than 15,000 remained by ______.
the offering of joint monarchy to the protestant william III and mary II
The central objective of the "Glorious Revolution" in Britain was the:
st. louis
The city of Cahokia (650-1400) was a ceremonial center for the Mississippi cultures of North America, and it was located near modern __________.
gold was discovered in minas gerais in 1690
The demand for slave labor reached new heights in Brazil when:
the tour of the methodist preachers john and charles wesley through georgia
The main impulse for the revivalist movement known as the "Great Awakening" of the 1730s and 1740s was:
1492
The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by __________.
