World Civilizations II Ch. 13 – Flashcards
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A consequence of the increasing wealth of European states was:
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European states grew rich enough to wage almost unceasing wars against one another.
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Which of the following was NOT a source of wealth found by European colonizers in the Americas?
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silks and porcelains
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The French empire in seventeenth-century North America profited from which commodity?
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furs
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The economic philosophy that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase its wealth at the expense of another was known as _______.
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mercantilism
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How did the commercial network run by the Ekpe society in West Africa enforce the delivery of promised slaves by traders?
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holding pawns who, if traders didn't deliver, would be sold instead of the missing slaves
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How did Dutch merchants contribute to the development of European commerce?
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They established a stock exchange, a banking system, and a system for insuring cargoes.
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What role did Tokugawa Japan's semi-independent "vassal" islands play for Japanese society as a whole?
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They served as buffers that helped to define the identity of those who lived in Japan.
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The demographic impact of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was as devastating as the impact of Afro-Eurasian diseases on Native Americans in the sixteenth century.
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false
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The Mughal dynasty made a successful effort to develop a naval presence in the Indian Ocean to forestall the growing European influence in the region.
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false
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the average life expectancy of an African slave brought to the Caribbean was:
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three years.
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Access to what natural resource allowed the Asante kingdom to begin its growth and development?
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gold
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The Qing dynasty expanded Chinese control into Tibet and central Asia.
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true
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The English colonial model in the New World differed from other European states in that it:
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depended on dispossessing Indians from their lands in order to accommodate a growing English settler population hungry for farmlands.
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What was the Mughal emperors' major source of revenue?
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land rents
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The system of government established by the Romanov dynasty in seventeenth-century Russia was:
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absolutist.
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What role did Europeans play in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century slave trade in Africa?
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They depended on indigenous political and trading networks that brought slaves to the coasts.
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In general, the slave trade helped to shift wealth toward which African social group?
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the warrior class
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_______ destabilized the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth century.
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Inflation
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Fluctuations in commodity prices had little effect on the stability of states during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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false
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The English and French profited from the colonization of the Americas despite the lack of precious metals in their colonies.
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true
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Many people who were captured and enslaved in the Atlantic slave trade died before leaving Africa.
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true
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Which of the following best describes the initial relationship that developed between French colonists and Native Americans?
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cooperation and French dependence on Indian knowledge
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Which of the following set of goods were introduced to Indians in North America by Europeans?
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guns, alcohol, horses
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The wealth generated by the Atlantic system primarily benefited:
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European elites.
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The Oyo Empire:
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conducted annual military campaigns.
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The Dutch East India Company (VOC) sought to establish a monopoly over the trade in:
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spices.
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The Dutch killed or enslaved nearly the entire population of the Bandanese Islands in order to:
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buy nutmeg at a low price in the Bandanese Islands and sell nutmeg at many times that price in Europe.
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Why did the Tokugawa shoguns limit foreign traders' access to Japan?
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They feared that the growth of trade would orient commercial activity away from the capital.
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After having initially welcomed trade and Christianity into Japan in the sixteenth century, Tokugawa officials banned Christianity and expelled missionaries from Japan.
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true
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During the seventeenth century, rising levels of global commerce increased prosperity in the Ming and Mughal empires but also led to:
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a decline in central control.
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The group that took advantage of the collapse of the Ming dynasty in the seventeenth century to establish the Qing dynasty came from:
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Manchuria
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The "Canton system":
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only allowed European merchants to trade in the Chinese port of Canton.
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The enclosure of common lands in the English countryside during the seventeenth century resulted in:
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the commercialization of agriculture.
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Which country emerged as the world's strongest colonial power after the Seven Years' War?
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Great Britain
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Under the French model of absolutism, to whom was the king accountable?
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God