Transcript Period 4

Period 4
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Overview of Period 4
• Empires and other political systems
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Other seas empires
Ottoman Empire
Mughal
Ming China
Russia Empire
Japan
• Hemispheric Exchange
– Columbian Exchange
– Triangular trade
• Systems of Slavery
– Slave trade
• Cultural and Intellectual changes
– Protestant and Catholic Reformation
– Scientific Revolution
– The Enlightenment
QUIZ
Question 1
• Mercantilism
a. Did not affect empires that were not based in
Europe
b. Brought long-term prosperity to Europe
c. Encouraged the importation of foreign goods
d. Supported free trade
e. Sparked further rivalries among European
nations
Question 2
• In the early eighteenth century, the political
system where citizens enjoyed the greatest
amount of self-rule was
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Japan
Russia
France
England
The Ottoman Empire
Question 3
• Both the Russian Empire and Ming China
a. Became increasingly more traditional after the
expulsion of the Mongols
b. Improved the position of women in the period 14501750
c. Established policies that were a reaction to the
Mongol presence in central Asia
d. Cooperated with the established religion in their
respective countries
e. Enjoyed a surge of renewed industrial growth after
the collapse of the Mongol Empire
Question 4
• A comparison of the reactions of Japan and China to
European influence in the period 1450-1750 show that
a. The Chinese persecuted Christian missionaries about the
same time that the Japanese gave them some
acceptance
b. Japan saw the need or knowledge of Western
development, but China did not
c. Both excluded foreigners from trading at their ports
d. European philosophy was accepted, but Western
technology was not
e. Both tolerated European influence in their culture in
order to actively participate in global trade
Question 5
• Compared to the Spanish Empire that of the
Portuguese
a. Developed a more egalitarian society
b. Ws more global in its extant
c. Was less influenced by the Roman Catholic
Church
d. Developed a better relationship with Indian
inhabitants
e. Was more strictly controlled by the government
in Europe
Question 6
• The Mughal Empire
a. Failed to ease tensions between Hindus and
Muslims in India
b. Controlled the entire Indian subcontinent
c. Terminated in the return of a traditional
centralized government in India
d. Produced art and architecture that reflected
syncretism
e. Placed women in a more subordinate position
than before Mughal rule
Question 7
• The Ottoman Empire
a. Weakened because its technology fell behind
that of Europe
b. Unlike the Mughal Empire, was not a gunpowder empire
c. Was unsuccessful in controlling European
territory
d. Reached its height around 1750
e. Prohibited the use of forced labor
Question 8
• The Nation-state
a. was embraced by the Ottoman Empire
b. Arose in Europe because of its diversity of
cultural groups
c. Was incompatible with absolute monarchies
d. Was not limited to definite borders
e. Promoted harmony among Europeans
Question 9
• European exploration
a. Were dependent on European technological
innovation
b. Promoted harmony among the nations of
Europe
c. Sought to break established trade monopolies
d. Concentrated on the Americas
e. Interfered with the growth of capitalism
Question 10
• The Columbian Exchange
a. Improved the nutrition of American indigenous
peoples
b. Did not involve Africa
c. Drew the world’s oceans into an active trade
network
d. Produced both positive and adverse effects on
world population
e. Did not affect East Asia
Question 11
• The English and French engaged in rivalries
over territory on
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Indonesia
China
North America
East Africa
Western Africa
Question 12
• Te region with the greatest number of colonial
and commercial competitors was
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
The western coast of Africa
Indonesia
The Caribbean islands
The Philippines
Japan
Question 13
• The Netherlands established commercial or
colonial interests in all of the following areas
EXCEPT
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Southern Africa
South American
Western Africa
North America
Japan
Question 14
• Which of the following regions sustained trade
patterns that were the most different from the
others before the eighteenth century?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Japan
Indonesia
China
Mughal India
Russia
Question 15
• Which drop arrived in the Americas as part of
the Columbian Exchange and later became a
key product of the Americas?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Tobacco
Sugar
Sweet potatoes
Bananas
Manioc
Question 16
• As a result of hemispheric trade between 1450
and 1750,
a. The entire globe was linked by numerous active
trade routes
b. European governments lost influence to the power
of the great trading companies
c. The work of African artisans found new markets
d. The Ottoman Empire strengthened its hold on
European territory
e. European wealth and commercial dominance
increased
Question 17
• African Kingdoms in the period from 1450 to
1750
a. Featured monarchs who ruled without advisors
b. Frequently enslaved their own people
c. Like the Chinese, were not interested in
European trade goods
d. Ruled without the use of military units
e. Were involved in the slave trade before the
arrival of Europeans
Question 18
• Compared to the trans-Atlantic slave trade,
that of eastern Africa
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Involved only European nations
Acquired slaves from coastal areas only
Did not involve central Africa
Became a model for European slave systems
Also involved the plantations system
Question 19
• Within Africa, the slave trade
a. Increased African dependence on European
nations
b. Decreased the value of women slaves
c. Had little effect on central African kingdoms
d. Promoted unity among African kingdoms
e. Concentrated on western Africa
Question 20
• Historians searching for the earliest models of
European plantation slavery would need to
study
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Plantation society on Indian Ocean islands
The history of the Madeira and Canary islands
Sugar plantations in the West Indies
Cotton plantations in British North America
Slavery among the Dutch in Cape Colony
Question 21
• The African slave trade
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Had no ties to Middle Eastern trade
Was frequently the result of African rivalries
Was abolished by the Dutch in southern Africa
Was limited to the Atlantic Ocean
Replaced trade in Gold and ivory
Question 22
• The trans-Atlantic slave trade
a. Produced average mortality rates of over 50
percent along the Middle passage
b. Carried the majority of slaves to North America
c. Increased after the establishment of sugar
plantations
d. Was separate from triangular trade patterns
e. Carried more women than men
Question 23
• When the Portuguese first became involved in
the Slave trade
a. They were uninterested in Christianizing African
people
b. They were interested primarily in gold and spices
c. They were amazed at the poverty of African
kingdoms
d. They created the African slave trade
e. They bypassed trade relations with sub-Saharan
Africa
Question 24
• Sugar Plantations
a. Were initially founded in the Caribbean
b. Required fewer slaves than the cotton and rice
fields of North America
c. Were the ultimate destination of the first
Portuguese slaves
d. Especially valued slaves from western Africa
e. Competed with triangular trade
Question 25
• Both the Protestant Reformation and the
Enlightenment
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Questioned political authority
Lowered the status of women
Upheld church traditions
Relied on reason over faith
Remained confined to Europe
Question 26
• The Protestant Reformation
a. Strengthened the authority of the papacy
b. Spread because of advances in Chinese and
European technology
c. Became the basis of Enlightenment thought
d. Diminished the achievement of the commercial
revolution
e. Was carried by Jesuits to the Western
hemisphere
Question 27
• All of the following describe the Scientific
Revolution EXCEPT that
a. It emphasized the value of research
b. It described the nature of the universe
c. Some of its beliefs were openly opposed by the
Roman Catholic Church
d. It was modeled on Chinese philosophy
e. It believed in the overall goodness of Humanity
Question 28
• Enlightenment thought
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Resulted in harsher punishment for criminals
Treated children in miniature adults
Resembled Renaissance thought
Was not embraced by the women’s movement
Introduced economic theories that supported
mercantilism
Question 29
• The Protestant and Catholic reformations
were alike
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
In their attitudes toward money-making
In their reliance on church councils
In their views toward papal authority
In their abandonment of church traditions
In their emphasis on education
Question 30
• The Scientific Revolution and the
Enlightenment
a. Both held that reason could be used to improve
humanity
b. Broke completely with classical traditions
c. Supported the ideas of the Roman Catholic
Church concerning the nature of the universe
d. Were global movements
e. Continued medieval traditions
Question 31
• Which of the following is NOT a finding of the
Scientific Revolution or the Enlightenment
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Planetary motion
Heliocentric theory
Movable type
The circulatory system
The social contact
Question 32
• Which of the following concepts of the eriods
1450-1750 did NOT rely on natural laws?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Predestination
Deism
Laissez-faire philosophy
The social contract
The theory of gravity