� Which of the following men conquered the Moroccan port of Ceuta and sponsored a series of voyages down the west African coast?
Henry of Portugal
� The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was
Manila.
� Christopher Columbus's decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on
his miscalculation of the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan
� The Portuguese viewed the Atlantic Ocean islands as the perfect location for the cultivation of
sugarcane.
� The first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope was
Bartolomeu Dias.
� In the long term, the Columbian exchange
increased world population because of the spread of new food crops.
� Most of the actual exploration of the Pacific Ocean was carried out by the
English.
� Lateen sails had the advantage of
working better in crosswinds.
� The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to
force merchant ships to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties.
� From 1500 to 1800, the largest contingent of migrants consisted of
enslaved Africans.
� The most prosperous country in Europe in the seventeenth century was
the Netherlands.
� The Dutch policy in Indonesia was to
control the production of spices
� The profitable merchandise that Vasco da Gama purchased in India was made up of
pepper and cinnamon.
� Which of the following cities was NOT a Portuguese trading post?
Bombay
� Jan Pieterszoon Coen was responsible for
founding the city of Batavia on the island of Java.
� The reconquista came to an end in 1492 when
the Muslim kingdom of Granada fell to Spanish Catholic forces.
� In the end, Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because
it was a small country with a small population.
� Ferdinand Magellan established a trade route between Mexico and
the Philippines.
� By 1750, all parts of the world participated in a global trade network in which Europeans played dominant roles, EXCEPT
Australia.
� The English explorer James Cook died during a fight in
Hawai`i.
� The most destructive European conflict before the twentieth century was
the Thirty Years' War.
� The theory of universal gravity is associated with
Isaac Newton.
� Luther's initial stimulus for formulating the Ninety-Five Theses was
the sale of indulgences.
� Who said, "I cannot and will not recant anything, for it is neither safe nor right to act against one's conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other"?
Martin Luther
� Eighty-five percent of the condemned witches were
women.
� Which of the following states developed constitutional governments in the seventeenth century?
England and the Netherlands
� The council that helped define and advance the Catholic Reformation took place in
Trent.
� Versailles was the magnificent royal palace of
Louis XIV.
� The most important consequence of the Peace of Westphalia was in
promoting the notion that the European nations viewed each other as sovereign and equal.
� The architect of French absolutism was
Cardinal Richelieu.
� The event that inspired Henry VIII to confront the pope was
Henry's desire to gain a divorce.
� The Ptolemaic universe was based on
a motionless earth surrounded by nine hollow spheres.
� The leader of England during the attempted invasion of the Spanish Armada was
Elizabeth I.
� The individual associated with the phrase "l'�tat, c'est moi" was
Louis XIV.
� The author of the Ninety-Five Theses was
Martin Luther.
� The first great philosophical proponent of capitalism was
Adam Smith.
� The Catholic church dramatically pushed the sale of indulgences in the sixteenth century because of the
need to raise funds for the construction of St. Peter's basilica.
� The Spanish Inquisition was first established in 1478 by
Fernando and Isabel.
� The Spanish leader who sent an armada against England in 1588 was
Philip II.
� Charles V was the
leader who tried, but failed, to centralize authority in the Holy Roman Empire.
� The first European colony in sub-Saharan Africa was
Angola.
� Over the course of the entire period of trans-Atlantic slavery, the mortality rate for the middle passage was
25 percent.
� The center of Islamic learning in west Africa was
Timbuktu.
� The vast majority of slaves
provided agricultural labor on plantations.
� The arrival of the Europeans
dramatically increased previously existing slave networks.
� When the Dutch founded Cape Town they encountered which of these indigenous groups?
Khoikhoi
� The most important American crop introduced into Africa in the sixteenth century was
manioc.
� Islam and Christianity usually spread into sub-Saharan Africa
as syncretic versions of the originals.
� Thomas Peters was
central in promoting the establishment of a colony for ex-slaves in Sierra Leone.
� Sunni Ali built a powerful imperial navy to patrol the
Niger River.
� Throughout most of history, the majority of slaves came from
war captives.
� The first European slave traders were the
Portuguese.
� The chief obstacle to Portuguese control of Angola came from
Queen Nzinga.
� An alliance with Portugal brought wealth and foreign recognition to Kongo, as well as
the eventual destruction of the kingdom.
� In an effort to drive the Portuguese out of Ndongo, Queen Nzinga formed an alliance with the
Dutch.
� Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of the Fulani?
They eliminated the traditional elements of syncretic Islam.
� During the early modern period in Africa, the basis of social organization continued to be
kinship groups.
� What was the massive fortified city in southern Africa that dominated the gold trade in its region of the continent until the late fifteenth century?
Great Zimbabwe
� King Nzinga Mbemba of Kongo is best known for his
conversion to Catholicism.
� One of the factors that made African slavery different from the varieties practiced elsewhere was that
African law did not recognize private property, and thus slaves served as a measure of personal wealth.
� Daimyo were
powerful Japanese territorial lords.
� Beginning in the 1630s and enduring for the next two centuries, Japanese foreign policy included all of the following EXCEPT
open, vibrant trade with Europeans.
� By 1750, the population of China had grown to
225 million.
� Zhu Xi was the
foremost scholar of neo-Confucianism.
� Which of the following popular novels dealt with the intrigue following the collapse of the Han dynasty?
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
� Taiwan was conquered by
Kangxi.
� Who sought to convert China to Christianity?
Matteo Ricci
� The term "native learning" relates to
a growing Japanese emphasis on indigenous traditions.
� The phrase "Son of Heaven" refers to the
Chinese emperor's role in maintaining order on the earth.
� One of the results of the peace brought by the Tokugawa period was
a reduction in status for the samurai and daimyo
� In regard to ruling philosophy and techniques, the Qing
followed the same pattern that the Ming had established.
� In 1421, Yongle moved the capital of China to
Beijing.
� China fell behind technologically during the Ming and Qing dynasties because
the governments favored political and social stability over technological innovation.
� Matteo Ricci and other Europeans discovered they were more successful in their negotiations with the Chinese if they presented them with
mechanical clocks.
� The leader who first organized the Manchu tribes into a centralized state was
Nurhaci.
� During the Ming and Qing dynasties,
patriarchal authority over females became tighter than ever before.
� In 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu
finished the process of unifying Japan.
� The practice of foot binding
represented the increasing subjugation of women during the Qing dynasty.
� The Manchus called their dynasty Qing, which meant
pure.
� The author of The Life of a Man Who Lived for Love was
Ihara Saikaku.