World History test 3
Which of the following was most involved in European dominated world trade by 1700?
Africa
Which of the following does NOT represent a similarity between Ottoman and Mughalempires in the early modern period?
Both brought new political and military unity to their regions.
The first European ships to reach India came from
Britian
Which of the following societies imported the greatest amount of American silver in the early modem centuries?
China
China's position in the Early Modern World economy
China's position in the Early Modern World economy
Which area did the Ottoman empire NOT control at its peak?
Crimea
All of the following were major artistic contributors to the Italian Renaissance EXCEPT
Dante
Which of the following factors does NOT explain why American Indians were relatively rarely enslaved by Europeans?
European belief in the spiritual equality of all humans
Which of the following does not accurately describe the Atlantic slave trade?
European slave traders roamed the African interior in search of slaves
Which of the following was NOT a major colonial power by the late 18th century?
Germany
By 1800, the proper order of Asian societies, if ranked by the extent of their involvement with the European dominated world economy, was from most to least
India, Ottoman Empire, China, Japan.
By the eighteenth century, government in much of Western Europe had come to resemble government in China in all of the following respects EXCEPT
It claimed responsibility for many functions beyond justice and defense.
The fact that the Ottoman Empire lasted longer than the Mughal empire can be explained in part by all the following factors EXCEPT
It experienced less forceful European intervention.
Which is the correct chronological order?
Italian Renaissance, scientific revolution, Reformation, Enlightenment
All of the following factors help explain why Italy was the initial center of the Renaissance EXCEPT
Italian intellectuals had a greater sense of contact with ancient Rome than did intellectuals in the rest of Western Europe.
The Ottoman and Mughal empires were both ruled by
Muslims.
Which of the following was NOT a reform of Akbar?
Prostitution was eliminated in his realm.
By the eighteenth century, the most rapidly expanding power in eastern Asia was
Russia
Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the slave trade?
Slave traders roamed over the whole of sub Saharan Africa.
During the seventeenth century, France replaced which of the following monarchies as Europe's leading power?
Spain
Which of the following does NOT correctly compare Latin America and the English colonies of North America by 1750?
Spain phased out colonial controls voluntarily for Latin America, whereas the North American colonies had to fight for independence.
All of the following are true of Britain's developing eighteenth century empire in India EXCEPT
The British relied on allied Indian princes for military force.
Europe's rise as a world trading power was accompanied by the decline in the international commercial role of
The Middle East
Which of the following did NOT occur during the Ming dynasty?
The Portuguese established a trading port at Macao
By 1689, English government clearly differed from the absolute monarchies in
The role of Parliament
More than any other single language, people in the Ottoman empire spoke
Turkish
European colonial trade expansion after 1450 depended on all of the following EXCEPT
a long tradition of cross-cultural exchange
From the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Westerners were interested in Chinese markets chiefly
acquire larger amounts of Chinese manufactured goods.
All of the following measures were taken by absolute monarchs and enlightened despots to weaken the aristocracy politically EXCEPT
administering examinations for bureaucrats.
China's tactic to restrict contacts with the West involved
allowing control of one entry port by the Portuguese.
China's fifteenth century decision to halt great trading expeditions involved all of the following factors EXCEPT
cost of the expeditions compared to other priorities
By the eighteenth century, the Chinese government was suffering from
cumbersome amounts of centralized paperwork.
The domestic manufacturing system involved
decentralized production based on machines powered by people.
A characteristic feature of policy making in Japan was
democratic procedures whereby those affected by a decision voted on it.
The Enlightenment differed from the scientific revolution as an intellectual movement
emphasizing rationalist social and political theory.
In contrast to patterns in most earlier slave holding societies, slavery in the Americas was distinctive because
extensive commercial agriculture, undertaken for exports, depended on slavery.
The Ottoman Empire brought change to the Middle East, compared to the centuries of Arab rule, in all of the following areas EXCEPT
greater desire to link North Africa and the Middle East.
Taking the period spanning 1400 1750 as a whole, the key direction of political change in Western Europe was toward
growth in the functions of central governments.
Europe's colonial and trade expansion after 1450 depended above all on its superiority in
high-quality gunnery
The Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
increased Japanese interest in Confucianism and bureaucracy.
The Ottoman Empire proved vulnerable after the sixteenth century because
it depended heavily on continued expansion.
The "European style family" was characterized by
late marriage age on average.
Which of the following does NOT correctly describe the West in 1750 in contrast to the West in 1400?
less religious
The Ottoman Empire's bureaucracy used
many Christians and Jews.
Chinese population growth from the seventeenth century onward was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT
more active trade in foodstuffs within China.
Compared to the Middle East between 1300 and 1600, Western Europe was becoming.
more interested in science
The Ottoman Empire brought change to the Middle East, compared to the centuries of Arab rule, in which of the following areas
neglect of scientific research
The price revolution was caused by
new supplies of precious metal outpacing production.
The key science in the scientific revolution was
physics.
The "European style family" helps explain why Western Europe differed from Asian civilizations in
population density and birth rate.
Japan's isolation
prevented overseas travel, even to China.
Most Latin American haciendas
produced food for sale in Latin American markets.
Which of the following most accurately describes the economics of China and Japan by the seventeenth century?
rapid expansion of internal commerce and merchant activity
By the 1500s, the Renaissance had led to which of the following?
redefinition of the themes and styles deemed appropriate in art
The Mughal Empire brought basic change to India in all the following areas EXCEPT
religious balance
The Ottoman and Mughal empires depended considerably on
religious toleration
Japan's government changed between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries in all the following ways EXCEPT
rowing importance of bureaucrats.
By the late eighteenth century, governors of the provinces of Latin America were
sent out from Spain or Portugal
All of the following Link Western Europe in the period spanning 1400 1750 to Western Europe before 1400 EXCEPT
strong interest in rationalism.
A similarity between Chinese and Western intellectuals by the eighteenth century was
strong interest in secular rather than otherworldly philosophy.
Chinese thought had long been characterized by
strong reverence for tradition
By 1750, Latin America differed from the English colonies in North America in all of the following respects EXCEPT
substantial dependence on Western Europe for markets and finished products.
India and Indonesia provided which of the following to the markets of Europe?
tea, spices, and gold
China by the eighteenth century seemed less interested than before in
technological change
China kept contacts with the West to a minimum because
the Chinese felt that they had no need for Western goods.
All of the following helped motivate European expansion EXCEPT
the belief that Europe had much to learn from the religions and customs of other peoples.
By the end of the 1500's, the Reformation had resulted in
the elimination of the landed aristocracy
The importance of Europeans in carrying Ottoman trade was shown by
the establishment of European enclaves in Constantinople not bound by Ottoman law.
Spain's expansion in the Americas was made particularly easy by
the impact of imported diseases on the Indian population
Mindful of the language problem in India, early Mughal rulers tried to promote
the new language called Urdu.
Some Indians preferred British over Mughal rule in the eighteenth century because
they welcomed British rule as an alternative to intolerant Muslim control.
American Indian traditions remained important in which of the following areas of Latin American civilization?
village governments
Sub Saharan Africa and the Americas, in confronting Europe's expansion, shared all of the following features EXCEPT
vulnerability to diseases brought by Europeans.
