Chapter 22 - Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions

The nation that led the way in early European exploration was

a. Spain.

b. France.

c. Portugal.

d. the Holy Roman Empire.

e. England.

c. Portugal.

Cotton was introduced to west Africa by the

a. Mongols.

b. Chinese.

c. Europeans.

d. Bantus.

e. Muslims.

e. Muslims.

lbn Battuta wrote, "Amongst their good qualities is the small amount of injustice amongst them." What country was he writing about?

a. Egypt

b. England

c. China

d. Mali

e. lndia

d. Mali

The Portuguese mariner who reached India in 1498 was

a. Prince Henrique.

b. Cristoforo Colombo.

c. Vasco da Gama.

d. Francis Drake.

e. Bartolomeu Dias.

c. Vasco da Gama.

Central to Renaissance thought was

a. a desire to re-create the glory of Byzantium.

b. an appreciation for the art and thought of the middle ages.

c. a deeply religious desire to withdraw from the world.

d. a fascination with the ancient world.

e. an appreciation of secular Confucian thought that had been brought about by closer ties to China.

d. a fascination with the ancient world.

Which one of the following was not a common result of the bubonic plague?

a. a temporary decrease in workers' wages

b. a decline in population

c. peasant rebellions caused by efforts to freeze wages

d. labor shortages

e. a decline in trade

a. a temporary decrease in workers' wages

Which of the following was not representative of Renaissance painting?

a. the use of linear perspective to represent three dimensions

b. the creation of the individual portrait as an artistic genre

c. the depiction of subjects in natural poses

d. a deeply religious tone as represented in its choice of subjects

e. the choice of themes from the Greek or Roman world

d. a deeply religious tone as represented in its choice of subjects

Which of the following cities was not a major participant in long-distance trading in the immediate centuries after the year 1000 C.E.?

a. Khanbaliq

b. Melaka

c. Kilwa

d. London

e. Constantinople

d. London

Zheng He was

a. the Chinese admiral who made seven journeys of exploration.

b. the founder of the Ming dynasty.

c. the last powerful ruler of the Yuan dynasty.

d. a Ming emperor intent on closing China off from foreign contact.

e. a Chinese envoy who met with the pope and the kings of France and England.

a. the Chinese admiral who made seven journeys of exploration.

Humanist moral philosophers believed that

a. intellectual and moral excellence was dependent on a Byzantine model.

b. people should withdraw from the world and dedicate themselves to prayer.

c. people could lead morally virtuous lives while participating in the world.

d. the thought of the Middle Ages was much more pure than the scandalous ideas of the Renaissance.

e. the ideals of the Greeks and Romans should be shunned because they were pagan.

c. people could lead morally virtuous lives while participating in the world.

Khubilai Khan employed Marco Polo in administrative posts

a. as a form of punishment after Polo was caught spying.

b. because he did not entirely trust his Chinese subjects.

c. as a personal favor to Pope Innocent IV.

d. because of Polo's long history of administrative service back in Venice.

e. as an indirect means of holding Polo hostage.

b. because he did not entirely trust his Chinese subjects.

lbn Battuta was able to travel so extensively because

a. he traveled with Marco Polo.

b. he held a position as an envoy for the Mongols.

c. his religious and legal training allowed him to serve as qadi.

d. he enjoyed diplomatic immunity as a diplomat for the Vatican.

e. his military might made conquest easy.

c. his religious and legal training allowed him to serve as qadi.

The marriage of Fernando of Aragon and Isabel of Castile

a. led to the unification of France.

b. brought Spain under unified Islamic control.

c. marked the end of the Hundred Years' War.

d. led to the creation of the Spanish state.

e. resulted in the suspension of the inquisition.

d. led to the creation of the Spanish state.

Gunpowder had its origins in

a. Persia

b. France.

c. Mali.

d. India.

e. China.

e. China.

The reconquista

a. was a new round of Crusades.

b. was the Portuguese trade route around the tip of Africa.

c. was the failed Islamic attempt to win back control over southern Italy.

d. was the Spanish Catholic attempt to win Spain from Islamic control.

e. was the reestablishment of native Chinese rule by defeating the Mongols.

d. was the Spanish Catholic attempt to win Spain from Islamic control.

The rise of powerful states in Europe in the fifteenth century was dependent on

a. the combination of new taxes and large standings armies.

b. the leadership of a united, powerful Italy.

c. the reestablishment of imperial unification.

d. the European invention of gunpowder.

e. papal leadership in a new round of crusades that gave purpose and inspiration for the Europeans.

a. the combination of new taxes and large standings armies.

Hongwu's philosophy for ruling China was

a. to return to the model of traditional Chinese dynasties.

b. to modernize on a European basis.

c. to copy the Persian model.

d. to continue the highly successful Yuan policies.

c. to completely break with the past.

a. to return to the model of traditional Chinese dynasties.

The important trading city of Melaka is located in modern-day

a. France.

b. Malaysia.

c. India.

d. Vietnam.

e. China.

b. Malaysia.

Marco Polo spent seventeen years living with

a. Khubilai Khan.

b. Ibn Battuta.

c. Yongle.

d. Hongwu.

e. Chinggis Khan.

a. Khubilai Khan.

Ibn Battuta was

a. the leader of the central Asian kingdom that dominated all trade along the silk roads.

b. the leading Islamic scholar whose work reintroduced Aristotle to Europe.

c. the sultan of Delhi.

d. Marco Polo's traveling companion.

e. a Moroccan legal scholar who traveled extensively and recorded his observations.

e. a Moroccan legal scholar who traveled extensively and recorded his observations.

Marco Polo's stories

a. were a product of forced propaganda by Khubilai Khan.

b. convinced other Europeans that trade with China was far too dangerous to pursue.

c. played no role in the expansion of European trade because they were lost until the twentieth century.

d. influenced other Europeans to visit China.

e. influenced countless Chinese to visit Europe.

d. influenced other Europeans to visit China.

Which of the following was not one of the products that had a new impact during this period of increasing interaction?

a. silk

b. gunpowder

c. cotton

d. citrus fruits

e. sugarcane

a. silk

The spread of Mongol control

a. stopped all trade along the old silk roads immediately.

b. ensured that trade only ran from west to east.

c. resulted in a slow but permanent decline in trade.

d. had little impact on trade at all.

e. laid the political foundation for a surge in long-distance trade.

e. laid the political foundation for a surge in long-distance trade.

In the five centuries after the year 1000 C.E., the peoples of the eastern hemisphere

a. united into the largest empire the world had seen since the time of Rome.

b. traveled and interacted more intensively than ever before.

c. fell under the control of the expanding empires of the western hemisphere.

d. cut off contact with the rest of the world because of the ravages of disease.

e. fell dangerously behind the rest of the world in science and technology.

b. traveled and interacted more intensively than ever before.

The sharia

a. prescribed religious observances and social relationships based on the Quran.

b. called for an Islamic holy war against the nonbelievers.

c. was the Persian term for the changing monsoon winds that dominated trade across the Indian Ocean.

d. were Islamic mystics who traveled the trade routes to spread the faith.

e. were Mongol scouts whose work was key to Mongol military success.

a. prescribed religious observances and social relationships based on the Quran.

Luxury goods of high value relative to their weight

a. always traveled the sea lanes.

b. usually traveled overland on the silk roads.

c. were always in the possession of only one merchant for the entire journey.

d. were under a monopolistic control by the Chinese.

e. were exclusively trusted to Islamic merchants.

b. usually traveled overland on the silk roads.

The Renaissance began in

a. northern Italy.

b. Spain.

c. England.

d. the Holy Roman Empire.

e. France.

a. northern Italy.

When Pope Innocent IV sent envoys to invite the Mongols to join in an alliance against the Muslims,

a. the resulting war brought about an end to Islamic influence in central Asia.

b. the khans declined and in turn told the Christians to submit to Mongol rule or be destroyed.

c. the khans accepted and quickly sacked Jerusalem.

d. a treaty was signed that forged a long-lasting political partnership.

e. it so angered the Islamic kingdoms that they rose up and crushed the Mongols.

b. the khans declined and in turn told the Christians to submit to Mongol rule or be destroyed.

The outbreak of the bubonic plague in the fourteenth century began in

a. England.

b. Africa.

c. China.

d. India.

e. Italy.

c. China.

The Hundred Years' War was fought between

a. China and India.

b. Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

c. France and Spain.

d. England and France.

e. China and the Mongols.

d. England and France.