Deck 13: Europes Age of Expansion

Question 1

Because of the large volume of trade moving through Antwerp, what industry developed to support this?

A) Banking
B) Money-lending
C) Bookkeeping
D) Insurance
E) The stock market

Answer 1

Banking

Question 2

The percentage of European people engaged in agriculture in the middle of the fifteenth century was approximately ______________.

A) 25 percent
B) 33 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 75 percent
E) 90 percent

Answer 2

90 percent

Question 3

What did nobles find objectionable about the marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon?

A) They demanded Catholicism be the only religion in Spain.
B) Their marriage unified Spain as a country.
C) They insisted on absolute rule.
D) Nobility was excluded from a direct role in government.
E) They refused a Constitutional monarchy.

Answer 3

Nobility was excluded from a direct role in government.

Question 4

The Reconquista in Spain was completed with the capture of which city?

A) Toledo
B) Aragon
C) Granada
D) Seville
E) Barcelona

Question 5

The Spanish Inquisition was started in Spain in order to ______________.

A) ensure the loyalty of the nobility to Ferdinand and Isabella's rule
B) oversee the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain
C) establish a tribunal to adjudicate legal cases in the provinces
D) examine Conversos about the legitimacy of their faith
E) expand exploration of the New World territories

Question 6

A distinctive pattern in marriage of Catholics compared to Jews and Eastern Orthodox Christians was that ______________.

A) marriage was usually set at the onset of puberty
B) marriage had to be conducted according to a contract negotiated between both families and the Church
C) marriage was reserved until later, when each member could afford to establish a household
D) marriage was required within the community for stability
E) marriages could not be ended except by death

Question 7

Half of children born in 1450 died before they reached the age of ______________.

A) 1
B) 5
C) 10
D) 15
E) 20

Question 8

What techniques did Ferdinand and Isabella use to centralize their authority?

A) They sidelined the rebellious nobility by awarding titles to new nobility who were loyal to them.
B) They established an entirely new administrative network who were loyal only to them.
C) They arrested rebellious nobility and executed some as an example to the rest.
D) They brought a lot of money into the country from their colonial interests and bought the nobility's cooperation.
E) Along with the Jews and the Muslims, they expelled from Spain anyone who challenged their authority.

Question 9

Which of the following did not occur in Spain in 1492?

A) Columbus was hired by the crown for his voyage to the West.
B) Jews were expelled from Spain.
C) Muslims were defeated in Spain.
D) Granada was conquered.
E) Spain declared war on England.

Question 10

The definition of work changed in the fifteenth century, and it came to mean ______________.

A) anything that produced income for the family
B) anything that produced goods for the market economy
C) anything that perpetuated self-sufficiency for rural families
D) that women's work in the family was considered secondary
E) the division of class and social stratification assigned value to work based on hourly labor

Question 11

The membership of guilds ______________.

A) was reserved for the most prestigious workers in a city
B) was only open to journeymen
C) was generally democratic
D) was never open to women
E) was a secret

Question 12

How did the changing definition of work affect women differently than men?

A) Women's work was calculated at the same value as men's.
B) Women's work was devalued as "necessary" but unskilled.
C) Women earned salaries for production of artisanal goods like cheese and butter.
D) Women's work was not considered part of the market economy because they exchanged goods in barter systems.
E) All of these.

Question 13

Which of the following was not one of the four categories of men's work?

A) Agriculture and food production
B) Construction
C) Manufacturing of cloth and leather
D) Religious avocations
E) Skilled craft labor organized into guilds

Question 14

Why did serfdom in Western Europe disappear after the fourteenth century?

A) Labor was scarce.
B) New laws converted serfs to peasants.
C) The Church declared serfdom a sin.
D) There was a large rise in slavery to replace serfdom.
E) Agriculture was no longer the primary economic model in western Europe.

Question 15

Antwerp served as a transfer point for which of the following goods?

A) Textiles (especially wool)
B) Grain
C) Timber
D) Metals
E) All of these products flowed through Antwerp.

Question 16

In 1500, the most important commercial center in Europe was in ______________.

A) Amsterdam
B) Amiens
C) Antwerp
D) Alsace
E) Albany

Question 17

What group of women had the most economic freedom?

A) Married women
B) Bakers
C) Widows
D) Spinners
E) Prostitutes

Question 18

Cities in the fifteenth century ______________.

A) featured substantial infrastructure for waste
B) experienced population declines
C) had adequate water supplies
D) relied on the rich to tend to the poor
E) featured houses that were set apart on wide lots

Question 19

Land in western Europe in the fifteenth century featured all of the following except ______________.

A) free landowners
B) peasants who paid rent
C) peasants who were wage-earners on farms
D) a peasant collective
E) serfdom

Question 20

Who was the most powerful European ruler in the first half of the sixteenth century?

A) Ferdinand
B) Philip
C) Charles V
D) Francis I
E) Henry II

Question 21

The political life of Italy in the mid-sixteenth century was characterized by ______________.

A) isolationism
B) domination by the Holy Roman Empire
C) centralization in opposition to the Habsburgs
D) regionalism
E) feudalism

Question 22

Military success in the sixteenth century for the rulers of Europe depended primarily on their use of ______________.

A) mercenary armies
B) conscripted soldiers from their vassal subjects
C) galleons to form an armada in the navy
D) New World silver to purchase new weapons
E) gunpowder from the Turkish Empire

Question 23

Russia was freed from domination by the Mongols in 1480 when Ivan III did what?

A) Negotiated a peace treaty with Khan Batu
B) Was victorious in the Battle of Lake Tchud
C) Married his daughter to the crown prince of Poland and united forces
D) Refused to pay tribute to the Golden Horde
E) Hired mercenary soldiers from Germany to defeat the Mongols

Question 24

One of the significant characteristics of Russia, which differed dramatically from the West, was Ivan III's use of ______________.

A) permanent legalized serfdom
B) an aggressive tax campaign that exhausted the financial resources of his subjects
C) tying peasants to the land to force landlords to stay where they were rather than move to the frontier
D) creating a standing army in exchange for land after twenty-five years of service
E) creating a permanent military servitor class

Question 25

All of the following were advancements in fifteenth-century technology or technique that furthered European exploration except ______________.

A) the cog ship
B) the lateen sail
C) cartography
D) astrolabes
E) navigational manuals

Question 26

In an effort to centralize his rule over France, which method did Francis I employ?

A) He standardized the Parisian dialect of France.
B) He coerced parliament to subordinate noblemen.
C) He respected regional authority and political independence of his territories.
D) He required that France be religiously tolerant.
E) He encouraged pageantry to celebrate his divine status.

Question 27

How did Henry VIII (Tudor) subordinate Ireland under British rule?

A) By outlawing Catholicism
B) By initiating a civil war
C) By declaring English the official language of all his territories
D) By having the Irish parliament agree that it was an independent kingdom ruled by him
E) By unilaterally declaring Ireland part of the English realm

Question 28

Henry VII (Tudor) attempted to ally with Spain through which method?

A) Issuing a decree against Protestantism in support of the Church
B) Expelling Jews from England after 1492
C) Supporting the war effort against France
D) Negotiating a marriage between his daughter to the Scots king
E) Agreeing to import goods only from Spanish trade contracts

Question 29

The first European explorers to sail to India and China were from ______________.

A) France
B) Portugal
C) Spain
D) England
E) Italy

Question 30

Ivan III doubled his territory in Russia when he conquered which land?

A) Moscow
B) Novgorod.
C) Riazan
D) Rostov-Suzdal
E) Astrakhan

Question 31

The wars between Spain and France ended with which agreement?

A) Condordat of Worms
B) Treaty of Tordesillas
C) Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis
D) Peace of Ausburg
E) Treaty of Trent

Question 32

All of the following prevented western European access to the Asian markets except ______________.

A) Venetian blockage of land routes
B) Muslims cutting off the Silk Road
C) Portuguese domination of sea routes around Africa
D) Ottomans denying access to the canals to the Red Sea
E) None of these prevented European access to Asian markets.

Question 33

To finance his military expenditures in the sixteenth century, Charles V relied on all of the following forms of income except ______________.

A) taxes
B) New World gold and silver
C) tithes from the church
D) selling crown lands
E) annuities

Question 34

Which of the following was not a reason for fragmentation within the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century?

A) Political independence of the electors
B) Over three thousand independent territories within the empire
C) The Protestant Reformation
D) Dissent between the Habsburgs and Spanish
E) Regionalism

Question 35

The continual cause of war for France in the sixteenth century was ______________.

A) competition with England for territory in the Americas
B) the unsatisfactory resolution of French and English disputes between Henry VIII and Francis I at the Field of Gold
C) Spain's interference in Italy
D) the encirclement of France by the Habsburgs of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire
E) French support of Protestantism against England and the Habsburgs

Question 36

A significant difference in Russian policy versus that of Spain's was that Russia ______________.

A) welcomed settlement of Jews into a region known as "The Pale"
B) forbade slavery within their Imperial territories
C) demanded adherence to the Eastern Orthodox Church
D) prohibited the Orthodox church from missionary activity
E) None of these.

Question 37

When Charles V abdicated in 1556, he divided his territories between his son and his brother. His brother Ferdinand received territory in which area?

A) Spain
B) The Netherlands
C) Italy
D) Austria
E) The Americas

Question 38

How did the invention of the astrolabe further maritime exploration?

A) It allowed sailors to calculate their latitude.
B) It redirected the wind into differently cut sails.
C) It revised the ways maps were printed.
D) It charted the currents in the Atlantic Ocean which allowed more accurate timing of journeys.
E) It calculated the speed of a vessel in water by Archimedes' theory of water displacement.

Question 39

In the fifteenth century, the Habsburg lands grew because of successful marriages. In France, the crown territory grew because of ______________.

A) diplomacy
B) imperial conquest
C) the deaths of long-term landed nobility
D) centralization and unification by enforcing one dialect of French
E) exponential financial growth

Question 40

Henry VII's (Tudor) most important achievements were all of the following except ______________.

A) increasing his treasury by receiving tax money
B) establishing judicial councils that operated in a streamlined, efficient, and speedy fashion
C) imposing English power over Scotland and Ireland
D) cementing political alliances through prosperous marriages
E) allying with France against the Holy Roman Empire

Question 41

What was life like in Russia at the time of Ivan IV's death?

Question 42

How did Christianity influence European explorations and settlements in the Age of Discovery?

Question 43

Who conquered the Aztecs?

A) Ferdinand Magellan
B) Christopher Columbus
C) Hernán Cortés
D) Francisco Pizarro
E) Vaso Núñez de Balboa

Question 44

All of the following were Portuguese except ______________.

A) Vasco de Gama
B) Henry the Navigator
C) Bartholomew Diaz
D) Ferdinand Magellan
E) Hernán Cortés

Question 45

How did the commercial revolution change the type and value of the work women did?

Question 46

Compare and contrast the monarchies of Spain, England, and France in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Question 47

Whose exploration took him across the isthmus of Panama?

A) Hernán Cortés
B) Francisco Pizarro
C) Vasco de Gama
D) Vaso Núñez de Balboa
E) Ferdinand Magellan

Question 48

The Tempest was directly inspired by Shakespeare's reading ______________.

A) European accounts of Native Americans
B) books of magic
C) the 1611 edition of the Farmer's Almanac
D) Holinshead's Chronicles
E) the Decameron

Question 49

How did Francis I unify France in the sixteenth century?

Question 50

What problems did Charles V face in ruling his combined territories? What led to his downfall?

Question 51

Francisco Pizarro ______________.

A) was an illiterate laborer
B) migrated to Hispaniola in 1501 from Spain
C) slaughtered 3,000 Incas with fewer than 300 men
D) brought precious metals back to Spain
E) All of these.

Question 52

What Shakespearean play incorporated the stereotype of the moneylending Jew?

A) Othello
B) The Merchant of Venice
C) Macbeth
D) The Tempest
E) Titus Andronicus

Question 53

Portuguese trading outposts were successful in all of the following areas except ______________.

A) Goa
B) Brazil
C) Malacca
D) China
E) Peru

Question 54

The only woman in the fifteenth century who ruled as a monarch was ______________.

A) Queen Elizabeth of England
B) Queen Catherine de Medici of France
C) Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland
D) Queen Isabella of Spain
E) Empress Henrietta of the Holy Roman Empire

Question 55

What chaplain endorsed the theory that Indians were meant to be slaves?

A) Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
B) Bartolomé de Las Casas
C) Vaso Núñez de Balboa
D) Francisco Pizarro
E) None of these.

Question 56

How did non-Christians fare during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella?

Question 57

Describe the shifts in the peasant economy from 1450 to 1550?

Question 58

How did Shakespearean drama portray "the other" ?

Question 59

What percentage of Native Americans died in the first century after Columbus' arrival?

A) 30
B) 50
C) 60
D) 80
E) 90

Question 60

Discuss the demographic changes that occurred in Europe in the mid-fifteenth century and their economic consequences.

Question 61

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Habsburgs

Question 62

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
mortality rate

Question 63

The five major states in Italy were held together by political centralization.

Question 64

Henry VIII of England sought to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon because he wanted to overthrow Catholicism in England.

Question 65

Ivan III and subsequent tsars prohibited the Orthodox Church from missionary activity.

Question 66

In the fifteenth century, the amount of Crown lands held by the king of France nearly doubled.

Question 67

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
demography

Question 68

What was the European rationalization behind the enslavement of Africans and Indians?

Question 69

Discuss the impact of technology and ideas on world exploration.

Question 70

Bartolomé de las Casas argued against the use of indigenous "Indians" as slave labor in the New World.

Question 71

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Moriscos

Question 72

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
New Christians/Conversos

Question 73

Through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, France and Italy fought for control of Spain.

Question 74

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon

Question 75

The founder of the Portuguese empire in Asia was Alfonso de Albuquerque.

Question 76

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Spanish Inquisition

Question 77

Charles I of Spain was also Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire.

Question 78

Hernán Cortés led the conquest of the Inca Empire.

Question 79

Ferdinand and Isabella were the most powerful rulers of the sixteenth century.

Question 80

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Charles V