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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

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