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Which event is most closely associated
with the “reintroduction” of the West to
the knowledge and trade of the Middle
and Far East after the year 1000?
A.The Black Death
B.The Travels of Ibn Battuta
C.The Crusades
D.The Travels of Marco Polo
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Answer: C. The
Crusades
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In which colonized region of the globe
did Western cultural practices
supplant existing cultural practices
most completely after 1450
A. West Africa
B. North and South America
C. East Asia
D. South Asia
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Answer: B, North and
South America
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Which Statement best characterizes the political
situation in the West around 1450?
A. Renaissance ideas had spread, making,
democracy the preferred political system
B. Small Political units led by local and regional
aristocrats were the rule, not the exception.
C. The nation-state had taken root and monarchy
had passed from the scene.
D. The Holy Roman Empire had united the West
into a larger political unit then the Roman
Empire of the classical period.
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Answer: B, Small
political units led by
local regional
aristocrats were the
rule, not the
exception.
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Which Social class experienced the most
growth in absolute numbers as a result
of the commercialization of the
Western economy in the period 14501750?
A. Proletarians
B. Merchants
C. Aristocracy
D. Clergy
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Answer: A,
Proletarians
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Compare, broadly speaking, with other
centers of civilization in the world,
which of the following had become the
most distinctive characteristic of
Western intellectual life by about
1750?
A. Concerns with manipulation of nature
to serve human interests
B. Centrality of science in understanding
reality
C. Appreciation of poetry in elite circle
D. Importance of the written word in
preservation of the wisdom of the past
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Answer: B, Centrality
of science in
understanding reality
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In which neighboring region (s) did the
Russian Empire gain the most land
during the Romanov dynasty?
A. Poland
B. Baltic States
C. Black Sea Region
D. Siberia and Central Asia
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Answer: D, Siberia
and Central Asia
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How did Russia tend to fit into the
emerging global economy in the period
1450-1750?
A. As a source of self labor transported to
till the soils of Western Europe
B. As a market for grain grown in the
New World
C. As a supplier of grain, timber, fur, and
other raw materials to the West
D. As a center of industrial development
based on export of finished goods.
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Answer: C, As a
supplier of grain,
timber, fur, and other
raw materials to the
West
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Which of the following best describes the
attitude of Peter and Catherine the
Great toward adopting change along
Western lines?
A. Its harmless influence was allowed to
spread without interference
B. It was a source of new ideas and
methods to increase the power of the
ruling family at home and abroad.
C. It was a key step on the road to
Russian Democracy
D. Emulation of Western gender roles but
not economic practices would be
pursued.
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Answer: B, It was a
source of new ideas
and methods to
increase the power of
the family at home
and abroad.
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Which end result of industrial
development was most important to
Peter the Great?
A. Russian capacity to produce modern
weapons
B. Growth of a vibrant merchant class
C. A raised cultural level of the resultant
urban masses
D. Ability to project naval power across
the Pacific Ocean
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Answer: A, Russian
capacity to produce
modern weapons
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Which feature of the expanding Russian
Empire in the period 1500-1800 was
NOT a feature of expanding Western
European empires in this period?
A. Multiple Ethnicities fell under the rule
of a a single monarch
B. Territorial expansion was a major goal
C. Natural resources and agricultural
products were extracted from the
newly absorbed lands
D. Expansion was mainly carried out over
land and not sea
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Answer: D,
Expansion was
mainly carried out
over land and not
sea
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Where in the New World did slavery last
the longest?
A. Haiti
B. Brazil
C. Cuba
D. The United States
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Answer: B, Brazil
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Which New World commodity was of the
greatest value to the Spanish
monarchy?
A. Potato
B. Tomato
C. Silver
D. Sugar
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Answer: C, Silver
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How was the racial hierarchy on the North
American continent different from racial
hierarchy in Latin America?
A. Intermarriage among Native America,
African, a European populations was
much less common.
B. Enslaved Africans could as a rule look
forward to manumission upon his death of
his or her owner.
C. Native Americans were preferred over
Africans to perform slave labor.
D. Europeans settlers formed a smaller
minority of the overall population.
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Answer: A,
Intermarriage among
Native America,
African, a European
populations was
much less common.
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In which way did the Spanish colonies
reproduce existing Iberian social structures?
A.Colonies were established as monarchies
in their own right.
B.Peninsulares sought to reproduce
essentially feudal estates with indigenous
labor filling the role of the Spanish serf.
C.Religious toleration remained an
important factor in integrating diverse
peoples into a cohesive social unit.
D.Extended families continued to live in
clan compounds headed by matriarchal
authority figures.
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Answer: B, Peninsulares
sought to reproduce
essentially feudal estates
with indigenous labor
filling the role of the
Spanish serf.
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What was the long-term impact of
massive influx of silver into the Spanish
economy that resulted from its domination
of the New World?
I.Inflation and unwise government
spending
II.A permanent economic advantage over
other European powers
III.Development of the most sophisticated
banking system in the world
A.I only
B.II only
C.III only
D.I and II
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Answer: A, I only
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To which location was the greatest
number of enslaved Africans transported?
A.Portuguese Brazil
B.British North America
C.Dutch Indonesia
D.French Saint- Domingue (Haiti)
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Answer: A,
Portuguese Brazil
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In which century did the Atlantic slave
trade peak in numbers of Africans
transported?
A.Fifteenth
B.Sixteenth
C.Seventeenth
D.Eighteenth
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Answer: D,
Eighteenth
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Which European power was first to
establish large-scale slave-trading
operations on the African continent for the
purposes of export to plantations in the
Americas?
A.Spain
B.Portugal
C.France
D.Netherlands
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Answer: B, Portugal
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Which is the most true of the Middle
Passage?
A.Mortality on marches to the African
coast was higher than mortality on the
ships.
B.It generally lasted a year or more.
C.African naval expertise was key to
guiding vessels across the Atlantic
D.It was not driven by the profit motive.
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Answer: A, Mortality
on marches to the
African coast was
higher than mortality
on the ships
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Which trend was most typical in slavecapturing coastal West African kingdoms,
such as Dahomey, which supplied the
Atlantic slave trade?
A.Mass conversion to Christianity
B.Increasing hierarchy, centralization, and
the importance of military capacity
including use of firearms
C.Depopulation as younger generations
were shipped away
D.Development of representative
democracy
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Answer: B,
Increasing hierarchy,
centralization, and
the importance of
military capacity
including use of
firearms
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Which of the following were
targeted in the Spanish
“Reconquista” of the late fifteenth
century?
A.Muslims and Huguenots
B.Catholics and Jews
C.Muslims and Jews
D.Catholics and Huguenots
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Answer: C, Muslims
and Jews
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Which monarchy constructed the largest
contiguous land empire in history, second
in size only to the Mongol Empire?
A.British
B.Russian
C.French
D.Qing
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Answer: B, Russian
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Where did Luther’s
movement first take
root?
A.France
B.England
C.Italy
D.Germany
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Answer: D, Germany
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Which best characterizes the Italian
Renaissance?
A.A political movement
B.A cultural movement
C.A religious movement
D.A mass movement
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Answer: B, A cultural
movement
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Why did the Renaissance originate in the
city-state of Northern Italy?
A.Expatriate Chinese artists settled there,
provided artistic training
B.Urban elites grown rich in trade hubs
provided financial banking.
C.The bubonic plague depopulated the
countryside more heavily, destroying rural
centers of artistic innovation
D.Techniques left behind after Ottoman
occupation formed the basis for new
explorations in art.
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Answer: B, Urban
elites grown rich in
trade hubs provided
financial banking.
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