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The fourth crusade was diverted from its original mission and conquered which of the following cities?

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Constantinople

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The most serious threat to Justinian's rule came from the

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Ostrogoths

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Justinian's most lasting accomplishment was

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the Corpus Iuris Civilis

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Justinian's greatest construction achievement was

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the Hagia Sophia

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The best known Byzantine historian was

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Procopius

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The Photon schism

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abolished the use of icons

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The dynasty that successfully restored Byzantine power in the ninth century was the

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Macedonian

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In the eleventh century, the Byzantine emperor, Basil II, blinded fourteen thousand soldiers of the

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Bulgars

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The major threat to the Byzantine Empire in the eleventh century came from the

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Selijuk Turks

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At the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, the

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Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantines

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The Italian city that benefited from the Fourth Crusade was

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Venice

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In the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, the major state of the former Byzantine Empire was the

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Latin Empire of Constantinople

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In 1453, the Byzantine Empire fell to the

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Ottoman Turks

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A major advantage that the Ottomans had against Constantinople in 1453 was

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gunpowder

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The early fourteenth century was troubled by

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the "little ice age"

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Morality rates associated with the Black Death in fourteenth century Europe have been estimated at

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70%-80%

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Jews, who were thought to be responsible for the Black Death, fled from central Europe to

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Poland and Russia

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Which of the following was not a fourteenth century explanation of the causes for the Black Death

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Volcanic Fumes from the earth

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The Mongols

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facilitated the spread of the plague with the creation of its Silk Road empire

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The Black Death

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was spread by fleas carrying Yersinia pestis

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By the early 1400s a growing percentage of the Asian spice trade was being transported

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in Muslim ships

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One of the earliest West African states to become Muslim was

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Mali

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What was the name of the last great state to occupy the Niger River region in Africa prior to European arrival in the region?

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Songhai

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After its founding in the twelfth century, the city of _____ became a great center of learning and trade in the Niger River region

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Timbuktu

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Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages for all of the following reasons except

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fear that Islam would occupy the rest of the world if Christendom did not

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Prince Henry

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established a school for navigators in Portugal in 1419

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An influential cargo brought back to Portugal from the West African coastal voyages in 1441 was

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slaves

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The Cape of Good Hope was rounded in 1487 by

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Bartolomeu Dias

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The Portuguese leaders who first landed at Calicut and seized the port of Malacca were, respectively,

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Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque

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Where did the primary threat to Portuguese control of Southeast Asia come from

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the English and the Dutch

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Christopher Columbus

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believed Asia was larger, and closer to Europe by water, than people thought

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Which of the following is not true concerning European forays into the New World

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Christopher Columbus explored along the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula

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The Treaty of Tordesillas

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divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between Spain and Portugal

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Which of the following accurately pairs Spanish conquistadors with the New World empires they destroyed

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Cortés and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Incas

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Which South American country today has Portuguese as its national language, reflecting its colonial history

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Brazil

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Under the encomienda system, New World natives were

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supposed to be protected by the Spanish

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As a result of the publications of Bartolomé de Las Casas

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the Spanish government was more attentive to the needs of the native populations

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What were American-born descendants of European called

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Creoles

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Portugues control of the spice trade was ended by

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the establishment of the British and Dutch East India Companies

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All of the following were part of the Columbian Exchange except

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potatoes and corn were introduced into the Americas from Europe

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The writer who best gave expression to the sixteenth century preoccupation with political power was

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Machiavelli's emphasis that the ends justify the means had been expressed earlier by

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India's Kautilya

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The third estates included

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peasants, merchants, and artisans

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Peasants made up the overwhelming mass of the third estate except in

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Flanders and northern Italy

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By 1500, poor city-dwellers constituted _____ percent of the urban population

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30 - 40

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Which of the following was not a result of the development of printing in Europe

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Chinese influence over European affairs rose sharply because of their invention of paper

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The most influential Christian humanist, who popularized the reform program of Christian humanism, was

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Desiderius Erasmus

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The individual who "laid the egg that Luther hatched" was

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Erasmus

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Among the complaints of religious Europeans around 1500 was

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the belief that the clergy were too interested in financial matters and disinterested in religion

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Which of the following was not a position taken by Martin Luther

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Acts of good work are the sole source of salvation

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Luther's reforms included all of the following except

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clerical celibacy

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During the German peasant wars of the 1520s, Martin Luther

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called for the German nobility to use any force necessary to subdue the uprising

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As a result of the 1555 Peace of Augsburg,

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Lutheranism became established as a n alternative to Roman Catholicism in Germany

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The Institutes of Christian Religion, a masterful synthesis of Protestant thought, was written by

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John Calvin

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Although John Calvin was born in _____ he spent most of his life in _____

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France / Switzerland

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Theologies of Luther and Calvin differed with respect to which concept/position

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predestination

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An important reason why Henry VIII broke with the Roman church was because

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he could not get Rome's permission to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon

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After Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled by the Archbishop Canterbury,

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parliament finalized England's religious break with Rome by passing the Act of Supremacy, making Henry the head of the Anglican Church

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After the death of Henry VIII, England

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became more Protestant under Edward VI

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Which of the following are correct statements about life in Protestant Europe in the 1500s and 1600s

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Ministers were allowed to get married and have families

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It is accurate to state that the

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Ottoman Turks gained control of much of the Balkans before they took Constantinople

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All of the following statements about Ottoman expansion are true except

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after the Kurdish seizure of Constantinople in 1521, Ottoman support of the new Kurdish ruler gave them greater control over Asia Minor

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Before the Turkish capture of Constantinople,

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Murad I defeated the Serbs at the Battle of Kosovo

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At the 1389 Battle of Kosovo,

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Murray's Janissaries defeated the Serbs, ending the Serbian domination of the Balkans

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Constantinople was captured by the

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Ottoman Turks, headed by Mehmet II

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The technological invention that allowed the Mongols to devastate many civilizations on the Eurasian continent was

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stirrups

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All of the following were true about the expansions of the Ottoman Empire except

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be the early sixteenth century, Ottoman power allowed Murad to conquer African Ethiopia

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Which of the following is not true about the region of Salesman I the Magnificent

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the Ottomans first captured the Slavic regions of Poland

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Which of the following statements is not true about Ottoman power in Europe

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It destroyed a European coalition of Austria, Polish, Bavarian, and Saxon forces at Vienna in 1683 and held the city for ten years

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Which of the following statements is not an accurate characterization of the nature of Ottoman governmental processes

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The government refused to allow any religion to be practiced in the empire except for Islam

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Ottoman expansion

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relied heavily on the development of the Janissaries and new artillery weapons and tactics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

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All of the following are correct about the Janissaries except

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they fought as on horseback as cavalry warriors

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The power structure of the Ottoman Empire

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was physically centered in the Topkapi

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Turkish sultans tended

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not to marry, to choose several concubines as favorites, and to proclaim their mothers as queens

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Which of the following i not correct regarding members of the harems of Turkish sultans

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They were invariably daughters of the Muslim upper class

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Which of the following is not correct regarding Ottoman rulers

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They carefully selected the mothers for their children according to their aristocratic and Islamic bloodlines

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Women in Ottoman society

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had considerable political influence if they were queen mothers

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Where did coffee originate

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Arabia

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Ottoman decline was caused by all except

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conquest of Constantinople by Great Britain and France in the Crimean War

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Ottoman architecture

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used the open floor technique originally used in the Byzantine church of Santa Sophia in designing mosques such as the one at Edirne

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