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100

Which of the following was an incentive for the Portuguese to find a direct sea route to India?

  • To bypass the Muslim and Venetian intermediaries for access to Eastern goods
  • To establish colonies for their growing population and create markets for their goods
  • To continue the Crusades in Asia and Pacific Oceania
  • To establish a base on the eastern end of the Silk Road
  • To bypass the Muslim and Venetian intermediaries for access to Eastern goods
100

What factor made some parts of the world more receptive to Christianity than others?

  • The absence of a literate world religion
  • The strength of state religions
  • The absence of military conquest
  • The early conversion of local rulers
  • The absence of a literate world religion
100

Which of the following describes what happened to the native populations of the steppes and Siberia as a consequence of Russian imperial expansion?

  • Enslavement
  • Genocide
  • Resettlement
  • Assimilation
  • Assimilation
100

Which describes the role that Europeans played in the economy of the early modern era?

  • They worked the markets of the East to their advantage.
  • They were essentially middlemen funneling American silver to Asia.
  • They established and enforced a new international system of trade.
  • They dominated the global trade in textiles, tea, and porcelain.
  • They were essentially middlemen funneling American silver to Asia.
100

Why did some Native Americans aid the Spanish in their initial invasion of the New World?

  • To acquire gold and jewels from the Spanish
  • To learn about European culture and history
  • To appease the gods and avert natural disasters
  • To gain an advantage against their own enemies
  • To gain an advantage against their own enemies
200

Which of the following characterizes how European countries sought to control trade in Asia from 1450 to 1750?

  • Through economic competition
  • By ending China's tribute system
  • By force of arms and conquest
  • By establishing diplomatic relations
  • By force of arms and conquest
200

Which of the following describes a feature of the syncretic religions of African slave communities in the New World?

  • The emphasis on education, moral purity, and personal conversion
  • The rejection of science, reason, and logic in religious practice
  • The exclusive focus on animal sacrifice and spirit possession
  • The identification of West African deities with Catholic saints
  • The identification of West African deities with Catholic saints
200

Which of the following distinguished the Atlantic slave trade in the Americas from past instances of slavery in world history?

  • Children born into slavery were considered free.
  • A majority of slave labor was performed by women and children.
  • Slavic-speaking peoples comprised more than half of enslaved people.
  • Slave status was associated with race.
  • Slave status was associated with race.
200

The fact that Europeans often had to pay for Asian spices and textiles in cash led to which of the following?

  • An intense desire for precious metals
  • A European trade surplus
  • A lack of desire to trade with Asia
  • The closing of the Indian Ocean trade network
  • An intense desire for precious metals
200

Which of the following was a reason that Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain were the first to expand into the New World?

  • They had a long tradition of exploring distant lands by boat.
  • They were on the Atlantic coast and were closer to the Americas.
  • They believed in ancient legends of a lost world across the ocean.
  • Their lands lacked iron, which drove them to search for deposits.
  • They were on the Atlantic coast and were closer to the Americas.
300

Which of the following developments in the early modern period provided incentives for Europeans to go into the fur trade?

  • The market in textiles
  • The spread of Islam
  • The Middle Passage
  • The Little Ice Age
  • The Little Ice Age
300

What similar feature did Andean Christianity and Mexican Christianity share?

  • Both defined Christian rituals as civil observances rather than religious practices.
  • Both condemned the ritual of Holy Communion as a kind of cannibalism.
  • Both used Christian communities to organize rebellions against Spanish rule.
  • Both reinterpreted Christian practices within the framework of local customs.

Both reinterpreted Christian practices within the framework of local customs

300

Which of the following was a consequence of the Atlantic slave trade?

  • The Great Dying
  • An increase in the value of silver
  • A revival of the Silk Roads
  • The African diaspora
  • The African diaspora
300

How did the decision by the Chinese state to require payment of taxes in silver in the 1570s affect the global economy?

  • European states required payment of taxes in silver.
  • It set off a decade-long worldwide recession.
  • It limited the purchasing power of European states.
  • The value of silver around the world skyrocketed.
  • The value of silver around the world skyrocketed.
300

Which of the following contributed to the Great Dying in the Americas?

  • A volcanic eruption and an earthquake that caused flooding
  • A prolonged drought that made farming impossible
  • The frequent warfare between the Aztec and Inca empires
  • Native Americans' lack of immunity to Eurasian diseases
  • Native Americans' lack of immunity to Eurasian diseases
400

Which of the following dominated the agricultural economy of the New England and middle Atlantic colonies in British North America?

  • Large estates that directly employed native workers
  • Government-owned land that was leased to settlers
  • Small-scale independent farmers working their own land
  • Sugar plantations worked by slave labor
  • Small-scale independent farmers working their own land
400

Why did Sikhism evolve from a peaceful religion into a militant community?

  • Violence offered a more effective means of gaining converts.
  • Punjab, where Sikhism was founded, was torn apart by a civil war.
  • The British colonial presence encouraged Sikhs to be militants.
  • Sikhs had to defend themselves against both Mughal and Hindu hostility.
  • Sikhs had to defend themselves against both Mughal and Hindu hostility.
400

Which of the following is true of slavery in the premodern Islamic world?

  • Men were exclusively enslaved because women were precluded from slave status.
  • Some enslaved people acquired prominent military or political status.
  • All slave labor was devoted to large-scale agricultural enterprises.
  • Enslaved people had the same status as livestock and other animals.
  • Some enslaved people acquired prominent military or political status.
400

Why did the Chinese imperial court initially welcome the Jesuit missionaries?

  • The Chinese state saw the political and military success of the European states as a demonstration of the power of the Christian God.
  • The Chinese people had been defeated, their societies disrupted, and their cultural confidence shattered.
  • The Jesuits' knowledge in mathematics, astronomy, technology, geography, and mapmaking was useful to the Chinese.
  • The Jesuits far outnumbered the Chinese and had already converted many of the nomadic peoples in the steppes north of China.
  • The Jesuits' knowledge in mathematics, astronomy, technology, geography, and mapmaking was useful to the Chinese.
400

The colonial economy of the Spanish Empire in former Aztec and Inca lands was

  • dependent on the import of African slaves for labor.
  • based on commercial agriculture and mining.
  • supported by piracy and smuggling.
  • administered by Spanish missionaries.
  • based on commercial agriculture and mining.
500

Which of the following describes a feature of the North American, but not the Russian, fur trade in the early modern period?

  • The local population suffered from exposure to European epidemic diseases against which they had no immunity.
  • The local population became dependent on European trade goods.
  • Competition between European traders meant that furs were obtained largely through commercial negotiations with the local population.
  • Some animal species were hunted to near extinction.
  • Competition between European traders meant that furs were obtained largely through commercial negotiations with the local population.
500

The goal of the Wahhabi movement was to

  • return to what was considered the pure faith of early Islam.
  • promote religious blending to create a new Islamic faith.
  • teach religious tolerance and encourage syncretism.
  • eliminate the patriarchal framework of Islamic law.
  • return to what was considered the pure faith of early Islam.
500

Which of the following is an example of the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on African societies?

  • Frequent slave revolts created an environment of fear and insecurity.
  • Some European slave traders assimilated into African society.
  • Judicial proceedings were manipulated to generate victims for the slave trade.
  • Using men for domestic slave labor in urban elite households became commonplace.
  • Judicial proceedings were manipulated to generate victims for the slave trade.
500

Which of the following describes a feature of Qing China's policy toward its possessions in Central Asia?

  • A massive migration of Chinese settlers into the area
  • Assimilation of the local populations into Chinese society
  • Respect for the different cultures of the region
  • The imposition of a special tax on Muslims
  • Respect for the different cultures of the region
500

What contributed to the social system that developed in New Spain?

  • Reconquista
  • Purity of Blood
  • Racism
  • The Requiremento
  • Purity of Blood