APWH Unit 4 Test (Multiple Choice)

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Which of the following was NOT one of the main inspirations for European exploration?
The desire to conquer China and India
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Most of the actual exploration of the Pacific Ocean was carried out by the
English
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In their attempt to control the spice trade in the Indian Ocean, the Europeans during the period between the 16th and 18th centuries were
met with limited success because of a lack of personnel
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The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was
Manila
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The volta do mar
relied on a thorough knowledge of wind patterns
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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
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The profitable merchandise that Vasco Da Gama purchased in India was made up of
Pepper and cinnamon
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On 12 October 1492, Columbus made landfall on an island that the native Tainos called
Guanahani
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The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to
force merchant ships to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties
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The Portuguese lost control of the port of Melaka in 1641 when it fell to the
Dutch
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Russian merchants and explorers began the expansion into Siberia in the quest for
Furs
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The country that finished the seven years' war with global hegemony was
England
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In the long term, the Columbian Exchange
increased world population because of the new food crops
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By 1750, all parts of the world participated in a global trade network in which Europeans played dominant roles except for
Australia
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The Dutch policy in Indonesia was
to control the production of spices
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In the end, Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because
it was a small country with a small population.
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From 1500 to 1800, the largest contingent of migrants consisted of
enslaved Africans
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Christopher Columbus' decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on
his miscalculation of the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan
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The Council of Trent
took steps to reform the Catholic Church
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The Spanish leader who sent an armada against England in 1588 was
Philip II
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Which one of these states did NOT become a powerful sovereign state during the centuries after 1500?
Holy Roman Empire
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That Planetary orbits are elliptical, not circular, was demonstrated by
Kepler
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When Volataire urged his readers to "crush the damned thing," he was talking about
the church
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The most important consequence of the Peace of Westphalia was
promoting the notion that the Europeans viewed each other as sovereign and equal
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Which of the following was NOT one of the policies pursued by Louis XIV?
An attempt to make the nobles an active part of the government
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Which of the following was NOT a part of Peter the Great's policy of westernization?
Political Liberalization
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The English Civil War ended with the trial and decapitation of
Charles I
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Which of the following states developed constitutional governments in the 17th century?
England and the Netherlands
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Which of the following factors was NOT one of the reasons for Charles V's failure to build a centralized, sovereign state in the Holy Roman Empire?
Frequent invasions by England
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The Spanish Inquisition was first established in 1478 by
Fernando and Isabel
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The architect of absolutism was
Cardinal Richelieu
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The individual associated with the phrase "l'etat, c'est moi" was
Louis XIV
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The Ptolemaic universe was based on
a motionless earth surrounded by nine hollow spheres
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The Catholic church dramatically pushed the sale of indulgences in the 16th century because of the
need for Henry VIII to pay off national debt
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The event that inspired Henry VIII to confront the pope was
Henry's desire to gain a divorce
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The city that stood as John Calvin's model protestant community was
Geneva
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The explosion of witch-hunting in the 16th century was most probably caused by
tensions between Catholics and Protestants
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Ignatius Loyola was instrumental in
creating the Society of Jesus
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The Encomenderos were
Spanish settlers
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The last emperor of the Aztec empire was
Montecuzoma II
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Cabeza de Vaca
was a slave under Indian control for eight years
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The metis were
individuals of French and indigenous parentage
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The British initially made use of Australia
as a penal colony
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The area known as New Holland in the 17th century was
Australia
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The first plentiful labor force for North America was
indentured servants
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Which of the following were methods of resistance to Spanish rule by the native populations of the Americans?

A) Rebellion
B) Halfhearted work
C) Hiding from the Spanish in the mountains or forests
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
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For the Spanish, the greatest attraction of the Americas was
precious metals
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Which of the following was NOT a difference between the Spanish approach to colonization and that of the English and French?
The English and French viewed the indigenous populations as their equals
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Which of the following was NOT true of the American Indians that the English and French came into contact with?
The Indians guarded their claims to private ownership of land even more jealously than Europeans did.
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Which of the following sites in North America was originally a Dutch colony?
New York
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The Treaty of Tordesillas
split Central and South America between Spain and Portugal.
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The power of the viceroys was checked by reviews led by
the audencias
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The Portuguese began to show more interest in Brazil
after the establishment of profitable sugar plantations
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The two centers of Spanish royal authority in the Americas were
Lima and Mexico City
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The last emperor of the Inca empire was
Atahualpa
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The capital of the Spanish Carribean was
Santo Domingo
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The first people of the Americas to come into contact with the Spanish were the
Tainos
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The most important factor in explaining the Spanish victory of the Aztecs and Incas was
the devastating loss of life caused by European borne diseases.
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When the Spanish invaded the Aztec empire
many of the subject tribes formed alliances with the Spanish.
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Dona Marina was
a Mexican woman who aided Cortes in his conquest of the Aztecs
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The conquistadores
eventually lost control and were replaced by formal rule by the Spanish Crown
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Brazil was spotted in 1500 by the Portuguese mariner
Cabral
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The first great American cash crop, exported initially from Virginia, was
tobacco
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All Songhay emperors were
Islamic
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The center of Islamic learning in West Africa was
Timbuktu
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As part of the triangular slave trade, the Europeans usually picked up slaves in Africa in return for
firearms
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The first European slave traders were the
Portuguese
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The most important American crop introduced into Africa in the 16th century was
manioc
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The founder of the religion that stressed Jesus Christ was a black man and that Kongo was the true Holy Land was
Dona Beatriz
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The ruler of the kingdom of Kongo, Affonso I, converted to what religion and encouraged his subjects to convert to as well?
Christianity
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The Songhay empire fell in 1591 to
a Moroccan army
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Thomas Peters was
central in promoting the establishment of a colony for ex-slaves in Sierra Leone
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The rise in maritime trade in early modern era Africa
resulted in regional kingdoms replacing the imperial states of west Africa.
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The Black Pioneers were
escaped slaves who fought to maintain British rule in the North American colonies.
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The Portuguese referred to Ndongo as Angola because of the word ngola, which meant
king
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The first European colony in sub-Saharan Africa was
Angola
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A trading post was built at Cape town in 1652 by the
Dutch
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The heaviest slave trading took place in the (when)
Eighteenth (18th) century
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The only place where a slave revolt actually brought about an end to slavery was
Santo Domingo
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Throughout the entire period of trans-Atlantic slavery, the mortality rate for the middle passage was
25%
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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.
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The fulani
attempted, through military conquest to instill a strict form of Islam in Africa.
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Islam was most popular in sub-Saharan Africa in
the commercial centers of west Africa and the Swahili city-states.
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After the arrival of Europeans to East Asia,
East Asian societies largely controlled their own affairs until the 19th century.
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In regard to ruling philosophy and techniques, the Qing:
Followed the same pattern that the Ming had established.
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The leader who first organized the Manchu tribes into a centralized state was:
Nurhaci
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Which of the following was NOT an action of the Manchus after conquering China?

A. They forbade Chinese from learning the Manchurian language
B. They did not allow the Chinese to travel to Manchuria
C. They encouraged intermarriage between Chinese and Manchus
D. They carefully guarded their own cultural identity.
E. They forced Chinese men to grow a queue as a sign of submission.
C. They encouraged intermarriage between Chinese and Manchus
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In 1421, Yongle moved the capital of China to
Beijing
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The phrase "Son of Heaven" refers to the
Chinese emperor's role in maintaining order on the earth
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The term "native learning" relates to
a growing Japanese emphasis on indigenous traditions
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The practice of foot binding
represented the increasing subjugation of women during the Qing dynasty
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Foreign trade during the Qing dynasty was
limited and under tight governmental control
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China fell behind technologically during the Ming and Qing dynasties in large part because of
the governments favored political and social stability over technological innovation
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Beginning in the 1630s and enduring for the next two centuries, Japanese foreign policy included all of the following EXCEPT

A. Forbidding Japanese travel overseas
B. A prohibition on the construction of large ships.
C. Open, vibrant trade with Europeans.
D. A ban on the importation of foreign books.
E. Careful control of trade with Asian lands.
C. Open, vibrant trade with Europeans
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The process known as "thinning out the rice shoots" refers to
a Japanese attempt to limit population growth
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The Chinese were hesitant to convert to Christianity partly because
of Christianity's exclusivity concerning other beliefs such as Daoism and Buddhism
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One of the results of the peace brought by the Tokugawa period was
a reduction in status for the samurai and daimyo
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Damiyo were...
powerful Japanese territorial lords
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According to Confucian tradition, the most honorable class among the soldiers, peasants, artisans, and merchants was the
Peasants
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In an effort to stabilize China internally, the Ming emperors
stressed Chinese traditions from the era before the Mongol yuan dynasty