Exam 4

Question 1

What best describes the spread colony of the Spanish Empire in the Americas

Answer 1

It centered on farming and mining operations

Question 2

What was associated with the Great Dying

Answer 2

The Little Ice Age

Question 3

What is the Little Ice Age

Answer 3

A period of cooling that occurred after the medieval period

Question 4

What is true of the plantation/ecomienda system in Latin America

Answer 4

It relied on a steady supply of slave labor

Question 5

What country settled along the Mississippi River during the early modern period

Answer 5

The French

Question 6

What describes European’s attitudes towards empire building

Answer 6

They were enlightening barbarians with their society

Question 7

What characterizes Akbar the Great

Answer 7

He brought the Hindu and Muslim populations together

Question 8

One of the driving forces behind the European desire for gold was

Answer 8

Mercantilism

Question 9

What describes the fate of the Siberian’s people under Russian rule

Answer 9

They were assimilated into Russian society

Question 10

What is marked by the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans

Answer 10

The beginning of an age of Muslim dominance in Eurasia

Question 11

What country still had tribal peoples living in it during the early modern period

Answer 11

Australia

Question 12

What event was most disruptive to European society in the 14th and 15th centuries

Answer 12

The Hundred Years War

Question 13

What describes the roles of women in Inca and Aztec societies

Answer 13

They were in separate but equal spheres of society compared to men

Question 14

What marked a period in European history where more emphasis was placed on art and expression

Answer 14

The Renaissance

Question 15

How were the Aztecs and Incas similar

Answer 15

Both started as outsiders who conquered a region

Question 16

What was the main form of society present in North America in the 15th century

Answer 16

Hunting and gathering

Question 17

What set the European colonies in America apart from colonies in the rest of the world

Answer 17

Reliance on slave labor

Question 18

The creation of what two empires had the greatest on Central Asia

Answer 18

The Russian and Chinese empires

Question 19

What best describes Ottoman rule over Southeastern Europe

Answer 19

They were accommodating of the native Christians

Question 20

What was the common trait shared by Ming and Ottoman dynasties

Answer 20

Both featured strong, organized bureaucracies

Question 21

What set the Russian Empire apart from European empires

Answer 21

It both established and expanded itself at the same time

Question 22

What was untouched by prominent trade routes in Afro-Eurasia

Answer 22

Japan

Question 23

Europe’s many different countries represent

Answer 23

A deeply fragmented society

Question 24

What was included in Constantinople’s defensive design?

Answer 24

High roads surrounded by the sea

Question 25

The rise of what blocked direct commercial contact between Europe and China

Answer 25

The Ottoman Empire

Question 26

How was Islam introduced into Southeast Asia and West Africa

Answer 26

By traveling merchants

Question 27

How were Ottoman troops able to overcome the defenses of Constantinople

Answer 27

Gaining access to the sea surrounding the walls

Question 28

How did the Chinese state resolve the problem created by a growing population and land scarcity

Answer 28

It made more intensive use of available land

Question 29

What was a concept of a web that linked many of the people’s of the world in the fifteenth century

Answer 29

Empire

Question 30

Where did the Ottoman Empire extend its control during the 16th century

Answer 30

North Africa

Question 31

Why would the fall of Constantinople to Ottoman forces have been memorialized by Christians and Muslims as a significant event

Answer 31

Constantinople represented the historical capital and center of Eastern Roman Christian civilization

Question 32

How did the Inca Empire’s treatment of conquered peoples differ from that of the Aztec Empire

Answer 32

The Aztec Empire demanded tribute and used prisoners of war as human sacrifices, whereas the Inca Empire created a bureaucracy, encouraged cultural assimilation, incorporated people in lower levels of bureaucracy, and practiced religious tolerance

Question 33

What features differentiated the four Islamic empires in the fifteenth century

Answer 33

The Mughal Empire was in India, the Songhay Empire was in North Africa, the Safavid Empire endorses Shia Islam, the Ottoman Empire has to deal with a Christian population, the Mughal Empire has to deal with a Hindu population, the Songhay Empire blended Islam with local faiths

Question 34

Who would Russia come into direct conflict with as it spread into the Blacj Sea

Answer 34

The Ottomans

Question 35

As Russia spread to Siberia, it encroached on what lands

Answer 35

The lands of the Manchuria dynasty

Question 36

Where did Russia become a prominent power during the 18th century

Answer 36

The Baltic Sea

Question 37

What characterized the colonial economy of the Spanish Empire

Answer 37

It was based on commercial agriculture and mining

Question 38

What describes slavery in Latin America

Answer 38

Large-scale importation of new slaves continued into the nineteenth a century

Question 39

What reflects mercantilism

Answer 39

Accumulating precious metals

Question 40

During which century did Russia experience its most extensive territorial expansion

Answer 40

The 17th century

Question 41

What did the Europeans Christians refer to the people of the Pacific Northwest as

Answer 41

Affluent hunters and gatherers

Question 42

What did the Igbo and Iroquois lack

Answer 42

A larger state system

Question 43

Who rebuilt much of Genghis Khan’s empire?

Answer 43

Tamerlane

Question 44

What country did Tamerlane fail to conquer

Answer 44

China

Question 45

Who were the Fulbre

Answer 45

African nomadic cattle herders who travelled alongside settled societies

Question 46

Who supported the sea voyages of the Chinese

Answer 46

Emperor Yongle

Question 47

Who participated in grand Chinese voyages which almost bankrupted the economy

Answer 47

Zheng He

Question 48

How did Zheng He’s voyages differ from European voyages to America

Answer 48

Zheng He did not seek to conquer, but rather to expand the trade system

Question 49

What was the Rennaisance

Answer 49

A resurgence of Greco-Roman art and philosophy

Question 50

Who did the Mexica claim descent from

Answer 50

Toltec

Question 51

What city was the capital of the Aztec Empire

Answer 51

Tenochtitlan

Question 52

What is the encomienda system

Answer 52

A system in which Spanish settlers were given control over territory and allowed to extract wealth and labor as the saw fit

Question 53

What is the repartimiento system

Answer 53

A system with more direct government control

Question 54

What is the hacienda system

Answer 54

A system in which Spanish officials were given large lands and paid piots small wages to work their land

Question 55

Why did the Russians conquer Siberia

Answer 55

To gain access to furs

Question 56

What is the devshirme system

Answer 56

A system in the Ottoman Empire where Christian families had to turn over their first born son to be converted to Islam and raised by the state