Chapter 13 World History – Flashcards
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Which of the following distinguished the empires of Western Europe from other empires?
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They were initiated by maritime expansion
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Which of the following regions experienced the least racial mixing and was the least willing to recognize the offspring of interracial unions?
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British North America
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Which of the following was a reason that Portugal, Spain, France, and British were the first to expand into the New World?
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These lands were on the Atlantic coast and were closer to the Americas
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Why did some Native Americans aid the Spanish in their initial invasion of the New World?
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To gain an advantage against their own enemies
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The colonial economy of the Spanish Empire in former Aztec and Inca lands was...
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Based on commercial agriculture and mining.
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How did many Native Americans in Mesoamerica and Peru respond to Spanish missionaries' efforts to convert them into Catholicism?
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They blended their old customs into Catholic practices
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Which of the following motivated Europeans to venture across the Atlantic Ocean?
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Rivalries between competing European states
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Which of the following describes slavery in Latin America?
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Slaves could not be set free by their owners nor could they buy their freedom
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In contrast to the Portuguese and Spanish colonists in Latin America, British colonists in North America...
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Sought to escape rather than re-create European traditions in the Americas
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what contributed to the higher literacy rates in the British colonies in North America than in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Latin America?
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Protestantism, which was practiced by most British colonists, encouraged reading the bible for oneself
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Which of the following describes a feature of Qing China's policy toward its possessions in central Asia?
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Respect for the different cultures of the region
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How did the Chinese and Russian expansion into Central Asia affect the nomadic peoples inhabiting the steppe lands?
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They no longer enjoyed political independence and economic prosperity
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The Mughal ruler Akbar favored policies the promoted
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A cosmopolitan and hybrid Indian-Persian -Turkic culture
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Which of the following was a result if the Ottoman Empire's policy toward the Christian population in southeastern Europe?
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Christian communities enjoyed considerable autonomy over their own affairs
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Which of the following was an outcome of the establishment of European empires in the Americas?
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The emergence of an Atlantic world connecting four continents
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Which of the following contributed to the great dying in the Americas?
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Native Americans' lack of immunity to European and African diseases
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What did the introduction of domesticated animals into the Americas make possible?
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Ranching economics
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How did the silver trade from the mines of Mexico and Peru affect international commerce?
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It enabled Europeans to by Chinese tea, silk, and porcelain
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Which of the following in an example of the Columbian exchange?
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The introduction of corn and potatoes into the Afro-Eurasian Diet
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Which of the following policies reflects mercantilist thinking?
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Accumulating precious metals
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Which of the following dominated the agricultural economy in British North America?
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Small-scale independent farms working their own land
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Which of the following was a reason Russia expanded beginning in the sixteenth century?
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To secure its borders from attack
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Which of the following describes what happened to the native populations of the Steppes and Siberia as a consequence of Russian imperial expansion?
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Assimilation
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In which of the following empires did the process of expansion occur at the same time that a distinctive state was taking shape
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The Russian Empire
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Which of the following polices contributed to the growth of Hindi opposition to Mughal rule by the late seventeenth century?
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Reinstatement of the Jizya
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Which of the following offered Christian men a means of upward mobility within the Ottoman Empire?
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Devshirma
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In the conflict between the Islamic and Christian worlds, which event in the fifteenth century signaled that the Islamic world held the upper hand?
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The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
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Which of the following resulted from Russia's westward expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
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A program of westernization in Russia
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Which of the following contributed to the great dying in the Americas?
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Native Americans; lack of immunity to European and African diseases.
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When did the empire constructed by Russia between 1500 and 1800 finally collapse
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In 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Which of the following statements best reflects the Spanish colonial economy in the former lands of the Aztecs and the Incas?
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The economy was based on the twin pillars of mining and commercial agriculture.
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Which of the following became part of the Russian Empire in the early modern period?
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Siberia
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How did conquistadors who helped to carve out the Spanish Empire in the Americas describe their motivations for doing so?
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They went to serve God and the king and also to get rich
