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All of the following have been African contributions to cultures in the americas except:

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african monetary systems

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The success of the European powers in penetrating the Asian trading system by 1600 can best be explained by the

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Opening of rich silver mines in Peru and Mexico

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During the eighteenth century which of the following reigned but did not rule?

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Japanese emperor

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In the period 1550-1750, most of the world's ten largest cities were located in which of the following regions?

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East Asia

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Which of the following resulted from the arrival of Western Europeans in India and China during the time period 1450-1750?

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The establishment of small European enclaves in India and China

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Which of the following statement best describes the relationship between European and Asian commercial interest in the 1500s?

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Europeans found, after trial and error, that the only way to benefit from the Asian trading network was to join it as a peaceful partner

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Which of the following was problem common to the Abbasid, ottomans, and Mughals?

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The competing power structure of regional warrior aristocrats

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Triangular trade referred to the network connecting:

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The west coast of Africa, North America, and Western European

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Compared to European exploration in the Indian Ocean, that of the Chinese:

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Was designed to establish a military presence

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Which of the following was true of the cultures of Ming and Qing China?

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the Chinese were introduced to american food crops

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Between 1500 and 1800 the Islamic empires

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We're ethnically diverse

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Which of the following was the primary goal of Zheng he's expedition?

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To impress foreign people with the power and might of the Ming Dynasty

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Chinese naval expeditions were abruptly ended in 1433 because

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Many aiming the fleet was Considered a needless waste of national resources

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The first European country to enter into direct trade with the Far East and established colonies there was:

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Portugal

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By the 16th century the center of commerical activity had shifted from the Mediterranean to the:

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Atlantic Ocean

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One of the most significant impacts of sugar cane production in global economies was

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The increased demand for slave labor

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In spite of the ravages of the slave trade the opus took of Africa actually increased in the eighteenth century due to

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The introduction of new staple food from the Americas

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The middle passage of the slave trade was

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The ship voyage across the Atlantic in the cargo decks

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On the plantations of the caribbeans and Brazil, slaves

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Suffered heavy losses due to tropical diseases and brutal conditions

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How did the mining industries of the Americas stimulate global economic Growth?

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The Spanish Quito (profit from tax on mineral products) circulated throughout European and Asian markets

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An undeterred servant differed from a slave in that he or she

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Worked for a limited period of time usually 7 years to repay passage to America

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The Mughal empire is distinguished from The ottomans and Safavids Mostly because it was

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A Hindu land ruled by Muslims

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Why did the ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires decline simultaneously?

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Inability To adjust to the changes in military technology and the world economy

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After the period of civil wars ended in Japan

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Japanese leaders established the Tokugawa shogunate a centralized Military government

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What European organization was a transmitter of science and technology to china

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Society of Jesus or Jesuits

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The janiasaaries were

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Christian taken from Conquered Territories and raised as special forces

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The isolationism of the Tokugawa government included

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forbidding Japanese from going abroad

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Which of the following did NOT lead to the low fertility among African slaves in the Caribbean?

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Many more Men than women were imported

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Why did European planters try to curtail African cultural traditions?

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They thought that space revolts were led by slaves with the strongest African heritage

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The triangular trade was

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A route that carried rum to west Africa slaves to the West Indies and modals and rum back to England

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In general what trade goods were the Africans most Interested in improving from Europe?

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Textiles, hardware, and guns

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How did African kings and merchants obtain salves for sale?

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Most of them were prisoners of war

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The organization of Atlantic trade in Africa was based on a partnership between

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European and African elites

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During the 18th century, powerful African leaders in Angola gained control of refugees driven from their home regions by

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Severe drought

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The European cultural impact on Africa during the Atlantic system is Best described as

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Minimal

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Women were more in demand than men in the teams-Saharan slave trade because

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Women were intended as concubines and servants

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Which areas of Africa were the most negatively affected by the slave trade?

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Inland areas behind major ports

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Most Scholars agree that effects of the Atlantic and Islamic trade on sub-Saharan africa

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We're severe in the regions that contributed heavily to the slave trade

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How did European goods such as Textiles and metals affect Africa?

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They were intended only for consumption and did not help to develop the economy

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Which was the most Long-lived of the post Mongol Muslim empires?

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Ottoman Empire

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Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire?

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The erasure of all previous political systems by the Mongol invasions

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How did the ottomans capture of Christians territories in the Balkans late in the 14th century enhance ottoman military strength?

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It gave them christian prisoners of war to sue as military slaves

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The devshirme system imposed a tax on the Christian villages in the Balkan. This tax was paid in

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Make children for the janissary crops

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When the ottoman sultan needed money to support the janissaries in the 16th century, he raised it by

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Reducing the number of landholding Calvary so that he could keep their share of the taxes

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Why were the ottoman sultans male relatives confined to the Palace after the Mid-17th century?

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This way the sultan could keep them from meddling in politics or from planning coups

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Which of the following best describes European impact on ottoman territory?

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The Europeans stopped short of colonial settlement and first poltical administration

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Which of the following statements about the Safavid empire is not true?

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Its founder, Ismail, unlike later shahs was mostly a secular man unconcerned with religion

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The Safavid empire of Iran resembled the Ottoman Empire in many ways. However unlike the ottomans the Safavid empire

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Derived part of its legitimacy from pre-Islamic dynasties

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The Portuguese left the Safavid island of Hormuz in 1622 because

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The English brought Iranian soldiers to Hormuz so that the Safavids could expel them

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What single factor distinguished themmughal empire form the ottoman and Safavid Empire?

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The majority of Indian society was non-Muslim

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Albar's religous Attitude can be best described as

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Tolerant and inquisitive

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Big the ottoman and the Safavid empires came to depend on

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Armies made up of former Christian slaves

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The primary theatre of Mughal accomplishment was

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India

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Which of the following is not true about Mughal India?

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The cline of the Mughal empire allowed yeh another Muslim sultanate to reunify India

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Historians have theorized that the first progators of Islam in southwest Asia were

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Merchants

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The highest prices in the Asian network were paid for

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Spices

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Rather than try to control trade in Indian Ocean as had Portugal, the Dutch

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Attempted to monopolies the spice trade from the East Indies

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The Portuguese were able to control trade in Asian waters because

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They had superior weapons and controlled trade through force

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The Dutch and empires in Asia relied on all of these expect:

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Migration of thousands of Europeans to settle in asia

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Europeans learned that the greatest trading profits to be made with Asia could be made by

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"Turning" pirate and raiding other nation merchant ships

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In Asia, European naval technologies and trade practice had little effect against

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Asian states with strong militaries and determined rulers

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Europeans learned that the most successful missionary work in Asia occurred by

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Converting areas that have never previously been converted by Muslims

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Following the defeat and expulsion of the Mongols from China

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The ming dynasty arose

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The first Ming emperor of china attempted to end of the abuses except

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The influence of scholar-gentry

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During the Ming dynasty, the true power of China resided with

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Rural landlord families with relatives in the imperial bureaucracy

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The Ming abandoned the naval expeditions for all these reasons except:

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The Portuguese defeated the Chinese navies on the last voyage

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When the Europeans reached Japan, the Japanese

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We're engaged in a cycle of civil wars

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The Japanese dealt with the long-term european challenge by

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Self-imposed isolation and forbidding most European contacts

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