Question 1

Which of the following was an agricultural village society in the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Igbo

Question 2

Who was Vasco da Gama?

Accepted Answer

Portuguese explorer

Question 3

Where was the Ottoman Empire located?

Accepted Answer

Anatolia, Southeastern Europe, much of the Middle East, coastal North Africa. and the lands surrounding the Black Sea

Question 4

In the Aztec world, pochteca were

Accepted Answer

professional merchants

Question 5

What major Islamic empire incorporated substantial numbers of both Christians and Muslims?

Accepted Answer

Ottoman Empire

Question 6

Which of the following was an impact of the growing prominence of Europeans after 1500?

Accepted Answer

The dramatic spread of the Christian faith to new regions of the world

Question 7

Which of the following distinguishes gatherering and hunting societies from agricultural societies in the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Gathering and hunting societies dominated both Australia and the arctic coastlands.

Question 8

In the second half of the fifteenth century, early European maritime explorers like Vasco da Gama and Columbus were searching for

Accepted Answer

trading opportunities with Asia

Question 9

Which of the following was a distinguishing feature of the Safavid Empire?

Accepted Answer

It imposed a Shia version of Islam as the official religion of the state.

Question 10

Which Aztec patron deity was identified with the sun?

Accepted Answer

Huitzilopochtli

Question 11

Which of the following pairs of societies shared a common religion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Accepted Answer

Tibetan and Japanese

Question 12

Which of the following was a feature of the modern era in the centuries after 1500?

Accepted Answer

The emergence of modern, technological, and industrial societies

Question 13

The Igbo rejected which of the following institutions as a means of maintaining social cohesion?

Accepted Answer

Kings

Question 14

Which of the following is a difference between the cultural revivals in China and Western Europe during the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

China drew less on Islamic artistic traditions compared to their Western European counterparts.

Question 15

By converting to Islam and imposing Islamic law some Hindu and Buddhist rulers on the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia sought to

Accepted Answer

attract Muslim merchants to their ports.

Question 16

What society made the Triple Alliance in 1428?

Accepted Answer

Aztec

Question 17

Which of the following pairs of societies shared a common religion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Accepted Answer

Turkish and Arabic

Question 18

Which of the following was a feature of the modern era in the centuries after 1500?

Accepted Answer

The growing prominence of Europeans in world history

Question 19

In what way were the Chinookan people of northwestern North America similar to Australians?

Accepted Answer

Both lived by gathering and hunting.

Question 20

Which of the following was a factor that contributed to Europe\'s maritime expansion?

Accepted Answer

Europeans were interested in converting large numbers of people to Christianity.

Question 21

What was the most notable change in the political realm of the Islamic world in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?

Accepted Answer

Four major Islamic states or empires emerged.

Question 22

In what ways did the Inca and Aztec empires differ substantially from each other?

Accepted Answer

The Inca Empire built an elaborate bureaucracy to integrate its subjects; the Aztecs did not.

Question 23

What major Islamic empire incorporated both Hindus and Muslims?

Accepted Answer

Mughal Empire

Question 24

Which of the following was an outcome of the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Society became more urbanized.

Question 25

The agricultural civilizations of West Africa were characterized by what kind(s) of government?

Accepted Answer

A mix of stateless societies and more highly centralized kingdoms

Question 26

Why did the Europeans continue maritime exploration when the Chinese deliberately abandoned it?

Accepted Answer

Europe\'s elites had a greater interest in overseas expansion.

Question 27

Which of the four great Islamic empires of the sixteenth century was founded by non-Turkic peoples?

Accepted Answer

Songhay Empire

Question 28

What was a distinguishing feature of the Aztec Empire?

Accepted Answer

The empire required conquered people to regularly deliver tribute to their overlords.

Question 29

Why did the Silk Road contract during the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

The rise of the Ottoman Empire blocked direct commercial contact between Europe and China.

Question 30

Which of the following was a feature of the modern era in the centuries after 1500?

Accepted Answer

Global contact between peoples

Question 31

What was a distinctive feature of the Fulbe in West Africa?

Accepted Answer

The Fulbe lived in small communities among agricultural peoples.

Question 32

Renaissance thinkers and artists were most interested in

Accepted Answer

describing the world as it was and capturing the unique qualities of particular individuals.

Question 33

Where was the Safavid Empire located?

Accepted Answer

Persia

Question 34

Who were the Mexica?

Accepted Answer

A semi-nomadic group from northern Mexico who established themselves in the region of Lake Texcoco by the 1300s

Question 35

Which of the following pairs of societies shared a common religion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Accepted Answer

English and Russian

Question 36

What is a striking similarity between China and Western Europe during the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

The power and authority of states increased in both China and Western Europe.

Question 37

In terms of maritime exploration, compared to China, Western Europeans

Accepted Answer

had a greater religious motivation for overseas expansion.

Question 38

Which development is associated with the arrival of maize- and bean-based agriculture in central New York around 1300 c.e.?

Accepted Answer

Emergence of larger settlements and distinct peoples

Question 39

Which of the following reflects the position of women in Iroquois society?

Accepted Answer

Women controlled agriculture and property.

Question 40

In the Songhay Empire, Islam mostly appealed to

Accepted Answer

urban elites.

Question 41

The Fulbe shaped the history of Islam in West Africa through

Accepted Answer

a series of religiously based uprisings that greatly expanded its practice.

Question 42

In the fifteenth century, which of the following separated civilizations from foraging, farming, and herding societies?

Accepted Answer

They were far larger and more densely populated than their counterparts.

Question 43

The Hundred Years\' War between England and France (1337-1453) was comparable to which conflict in Ming China during the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

None of these; Ming China was internally unified, unlike Europe.

Question 44

Which of the following is a political difference between Western Europe and China in the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Western Europe possessed a far more fragmented system of government than China.

Question 45

Which of the following was a Paleolithic gathering and hunting society in the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Australians

Question 46

Periodic military conflict between the Ottoman and Safavid empires was driven by territorial disputes and

Accepted Answer

religious differences.

Question 47

The capital of Timur\'s expansive empire was

Accepted Answer

Samarkand

Question 48

Which of the following was an agricultural village society in the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Iroquois

Question 49

Which of the following was a distinguishing feature of the Ottoman Empire?

Accepted Answer

Its rulers claimed the title of caliph and the legacy of the earlier Abbasid Empire.

Question 50

Which Islamic state of the fifteenth century was noted for its attempts to bring unity to the Islamic world and to serve as the \"strong sword of Islam\" by protecting the mainstream Sunni faith?

Accepted Answer

Ottoman Empire

Question 51

Why is Timur important to world history?

Accepted Answer

Timur was a great conqueror who devastated much of Asia in the period around 1400.

Question 52

Which of the following statements reflects the Christian experience of the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Accepted Answer

Substantial populations of Christians in the Balkans were subjects of the Ottoman Empire.

Question 53

What did agricultural village societies share with fully formed civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Permanent settlements

Question 54

From where did the Songhay Empire derive much of its revenue?

Accepted Answer

Taxes from the trade that took place in its empire

Question 55

The Igbo were able to maintain their stateless society in part because

Accepted Answer

Igbo identity became associated with the rejection of kings.

Question 56

The Iroquois League of Five Nations had the authority to

Accepted Answer

coordinate their people\'s relationship with outsiders.

Question 57

Why were northwest North Americans like the Chinookan able to create \"complex\" or \"affluent\" gathering and hunting cultures?

Accepted Answer

They had an extraordinarily rich environment, well stocked with fish and animals.

Question 58

Which of the following was a distinguishing feature of the Mughal Empire?

Accepted Answer

It ruled over a largely non-Muslim population made up mostly of Hindus.

Question 59

Which of the following West African people resisted the development of kingship and state building in their region?

Accepted Answer

Igbo

Question 60

Which of the following types of society impinged most dramatically on civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Nomadic pastoralists

Question 61

Which of the following is true of Australian hunter-gatherers?

Accepted Answer

They mastered and manipulated the environment through the practice of \"firestick farming.\"

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