Final Flashcards
(100 cards)
Aztecs were defeated by the Spanish for all of the following reasons except
Aztec army suffered from a lack of military training
____ Propose that humans consisted of a material (body) being & an immaterial being (thinking)which is called dualism
Rene Descartes
____ Introduced the line of infantry in the mid-17th century which required extensive peacetime drills
Sweden
The racing, training, and equipping of armies in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries required substantial increases in tax revenue. And all the emerging nation-states across Europe this increase was resistant with one exception
Netherlands
Well became more respectable and Christian society under____
Calvinism
T/F Calvinism was essential in urban denomination, and peasants did not join in large numbers
True
T/F The ruling class in France preferred to build a centralized naval base state rather than a land-based state
False
T/F The theory of absolutism, as practice by Louis XIV of France, had both centralizing and do you centralizing qualities and therefore was not entirely absolute in the pure definition of the word
True
T/F Louis XIV reign was it economically advantageous to France
False
T/F the practice of “devsirme” Conscripting young boys to be trained soldiers and administrators in the ottoman empire, was against Islamic law. Therefore, Ottomans sultans ruling by divine grace, were makers of their own law and Muslim scholars would have to adapt sharia law as best as they could
True
____ was the most Successful colonial power to achieve cooperation with the Native American populations
France
____ Was the first war fought all over the world and resulted in a tremendous increase in debt for the vanquished and the Victor, there by contributing to American and French revolutions in the second half of the 18th century
The 7 years war
T/F The British David’s North American colonies a great deal of latitude in governing their own affairs during the early colonial period
True
T/F Akbar realize that religious intolerance was distructive and wasteful and there by developed a new religion called the “divine faith” which was very successful in ending religious strife during the after his reign
False
T/F the Manchus Made the same mistake that the Mongols made about failing to recruit any Chinese for high administrative posts and therefore laid the seeds for rebellions
False
T/F The tent government in Japan which set up the rule for alternate attendance in Edo was similar to Louis XIV summoning the nobility of France to Versailles so he could loosen the reins of their power in their home provinces
True
T/F The Dominican order was instrumental in creating good relations with the Chinese court officials
False
All the following civilizations were experiencing a movement to centralization state building from 1500 to 1800 except
Africa
All of the following products were exchanged in the system of triangular trade established between Europe and the Americas except
Porcelain
____ Propose the idea of using debtor prisoners in England to settle the colony of_____ which was used as a bulwark against Spanish Florida
James Oglethorpe
& Georgia
The tax place done unbelievers by the mughals was called
Jizya
The first European power to establish trade in India
Portugal
The slave ships voyage from Africa to the Americas is referred to as the ____
Middle passage
The plantation zone With its cash crops and tremendous profits in the Americas created the largest demand for human labor. It resulted in establishing an immutable colorline that to find a permanent underclass and identified blackness with slavery and inferiority this phenomenon is called
Racism
