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Bolivar rejected Spanish mercantilist policies that restricted free trade in Latin Amenica

After the expansion of Islam into Africa, an organized Christian presence remained

Egypt and Ethiopia

Most agricultural laborers in the Ottoman Empire were

Free peasants

Which of the following most directly explains the importance of improved agricultural productivity to the industrialization of economic production in western Europe in the period 1750-1900

Because less labor was needed on farms, more people moved to urban areas to work in factories.

Which of the following claims does Napoleon make about religion in the document al-Jabarti quotes in the paragraph

The French did not wish to change the religion of the people of Egypt

The passage by al-Khatib is best understood in the context of which of the following?

The spread of the Black Death in the aftermath of the Mongol conquests

The system of thought demonstrated by al-Khatib suggests he was most influenced by which of the following?

Greek and Roman philosophical principles of logic and empirical observation

The passage by al-Khatib best illustrates which of the following?

The growth of scientific thought and innovation in Muslim Spain

The outbreaks of plague described in the passage led most directly to which of the following?

The decline of many major cities across Eurasia

The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by the expansion in the production

Sugar

The trade illustrated by the map contributed most directly to which of the following?

Haitian revolution

Which of the following best explains the relative volume of trade to different destinations as shown on the map?

The increasing demand for labor on cash crop plantations

of the following were significant environmental effects of the trade illustrated on the map EXCEPT

air pollution resulting from the increased exploitation of fossil fuels

Which of the following best describes the impact on African society of the trade depicted on the map?

Gender and family roles were restructured as the male population in West Ainca diminished.

The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by

increased production of cash crops like sugar

Which of the following assertions in the description of Hangzhou above would be most difficult to verify?

That the merchandise sold in Hangzhou was of higher quality than that sold in other Chinese cities

Which of the following pieces of evidence does the author use to support his implicit argument that Maya sociely underwent e dramatic cultural change in the sixteenth century?

The Maya were converted to Christianity.

All of the following pieces of evidence in the passage directly support the author's claim that the "pestlience" was "temble"

EXCEPT:

The disease led to the arrival of Dominican friars

Which of the following pieces of evidence does the author use to support his claim that the arrival of the Spanish destroyed our people"?

The Spanish conquered all Maya towns

Angkor Wat in Southeast Asia built circa 1100 C.E., shown above, reflects which of the following worid historical processes?

Increased cross-cultural interactions in the Indian Ocean region

Which of the following long term changes in the period circa 1550-1700 best demonstrates that the actions described b Estete in the passage failed to fully achieve their goals?

The emergence of syncretic religious practices in the Americas

Spanish actions described in the passage differed from European attempts to promote Christianity in South and East Asia in số 1450-1750 in that

South and East Asia, Europeans were unable to subjugate poitically the powerful existing states

Which of the following would be most useful in establishing the reliability of de Estes depiction of the events in the passage?

an account by an Inca who was also present

An African griot (storyteller), circa 1950, introducing the oral epic of King Sundiata of Mall, composed circa 1400 C.€

The introduction by the griot is intended to serve which of the following purposes?

To establish the gnot's authorty by connecting him to the past

Al of the following statements about the Ottoman Empire in the period 1450-1750 are factually accurate. Which would most strongly support Berkey's claim regarding the Oltoman state and toleration in the passage?

The Ottoman army increasingly relied on the contributions of the Janissary corps, which was mostly composed of soldiers of non-Turkic origin

Which of the following developments in the period 1450-1750 would a historian most likely cite to support Barkey's claim regarding the Ottoman Empire and its predecessors and contemporaries in the fast sentence of the second paragraph ?

The establishment of racral categories of social hierarchy under the casta system in Spanish colonies in the Amencas

Which of the following claims that Barkley makes in the passage appears to contradict most directly her assertion in the first sentence of the first paragraph?

Non-Muslims were second class citizens who endured prejudice.

which of the following best explains the process illustrated in the image?

States used gunpowder weapons to establish large empires

Which of the following explains the most common effect that the process illustrated in the image had on relationships between states in Afro-Eurasia in the period1450-1750

it led to deepening rivalnes and conficts as states millary capabities grew

The Mongol conquests of much of Eurasia in the thirteenth century tended to encourage trade along the Silk Roads primarily by

decreasing the risk of bandit attacks and reducing the number of local rulers collecting tribute from trade caravans

All The following statements about Bernier are factually accurate. Which would most increase historians' confidence in the liability of his account?

He spent several years as an official at the Mughal imperial court.

the contractors described in the passage are an example of which of the following?

new elites recruited to generate increased revenue after imperial conquests

Which of the following most accurately describes Bernier's main argument concerning Mughal administration?

The Mughal govemment's practice of tax farming was not an effective means of promoting economic growing

The actions of peasants, artisans, and merchants discussed in the third paragraph are an example of

resistance against state attempts to collect revenue

In the excerpt, Bolivar expresses which of the following?

Outrage at the effects of mercantilist policies

Bolivar was describing the effects of which of the following economic policies?

Mercantilism

Which of the following groups was Bolivar most trying to influence with this letter?

Creole eltes

As described in the second paragraph, the arguments made by the supporters of the opium trade were most similar to the arguments made in the early nineteenth century by supporters of the continued use of

African slave labor on sugar plantations in the Americas

The trade described in the passage is best seen as an early example of which of the following?

The use of economic impenalism by European merchants and states

Article 4 of the treaty is best explained as evidence of how states in the period 1490- 1750 sought to

suppress resistance to their rule by co-opting local groups

The actions of the Maroons that forced British colonial authorities to conclude a treaty with them are best explained as evidence of reactions against which of the following global trends in the period 1450-1750

The increasing expansion and centralization of state power

The passage could best be used to explain which of the following developments in the Americas in the period 1500-1750?

Enslaved peoples and their descendants used violent means to escape oppression and maintain their freedom.

Which of the following most likely explains the differences in the perceived risk associated with investing in land in fintain and investing in land in India, as shown in the table?

While, improvements in agricultural productivity made investing in land in Britain relatively safe, Britain was stir in the process of securing its control over India

Increase in the number of overseas investment opportunities such as those chown in the table in the nineteenth century most strongly contributed to which of the following processes?

Economic imperialism in Asia and Latin America, as Western individuals and businesses pressured thew governments to protect their investments

Which of the following conclusions is best sapported by the data in the table?

financial practices facilitated deeper global economic integration

Over the course of the nineteenth century, the rinks assoctated with financing the trading voyages of European ships would

decrease, as steamships offered a more reliable and safer method of oceanic transportation

Which of the following best supports the contentions of the world economic theory in the passage?

Latin America exported sugar and silver and imported manufactured items

Which of following statements would challenge the arguments made in the passage?

Strong governments in the slave-exporting regions of West Africa

Which of the following most encouraged the development of new cities such as Cahokia along the Mississippi River, Swahili city-states on the East African Coast, Venice on the Mediterranean coast, and Hangzhou on China's coast during the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E.?

Intensification of regional trade

The founder of Buddhism developed a religion centered on

elimination of desire and suffering

Historians consider the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to be a time of great change in cultivation methods and in the s landscape of Latin America

Which of the following pairings was most responsible for these changes?

Slave labor and sugar