Deck 14: The Early Modern Systems in the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries

Question 1

The relationship between Genoa and Venice in the spice trade shows

A) how patriotism developed first in Italy
B) economic competition is more important than regional affiliation
C) economic competition is more important than religious loyalties
D) both b and c

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What kept the Ming dynasty from continuing its explorations was

A) attacks by Central Asian steppe pastoralists
B) attacks by Japanese pirates
C) the rebuilding of the Great Wall of China
D) all of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The Spanish and Portuguese slaughtered native Americans, seized their gold and silver and brought it back to Europe. Marx called this

A) exploitation of wage labor
B) the conversion of formal domination to real domination of capital
C) the primitive accumulation of capital
D) the concentration of capital in fewer and fewer hands

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to Ferdinand Braudel and Violet Barbour Amsterdam was closest in its economic organization to

A) London
B) Lisbon
C) Venice
D) Berlin
E) Paris

Question 5

The only state in Early Modern Europe that was not undergo significant centralization was

A) Portugal
B) Germany
C) France
D) England

Question 6

The dynasty that tried to restore tributary accumulation in Europe was

A) the Ottoman empire
B) the English empire
C) the Hapsburg empire
D) the Mongol empire
E) none of the above

Question 7

By the 17ᵗʰ century the country that was the most industrialized was

A) England
B) Germany
C) France
D) Spain
E) the Netherlands

Question 8

The development of capitalism in the "long 16ᵗʰ century" was

A) aided by the development of an interstate system
B) opposed to the development of absolute monarchies
C) initiated by Spanish capitalists
D) was fueled inadvertently by the Japanese pirates

Question 9

The notion of "world party" formation has as its criteria

A) the struggle to attain state power
B) being confined to secular groupings
C) it must represent a single state
D) it must run in elections
E) none of the above

Question 10

The sea network(s) in the Dutch revolution included

A) the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
B) The eastern Atlantic ocean
C) the Mediterranean Sea
D) all of the above

Question 11

In the seventieth century England was in

A) the core of the modern world-system
B) the semiperiphery of the modern world-system
C) the periphery of the modern world- system
D) outside the modern world-system

Question 12

The enclosures of formerly peasant lands in England was done for the purpose of producing

A) sugar
B) tobacco
C) cotton
D) coffee
E) none of the above

Question 13

What drove the English to begin to use coal as a resource?

A) the empirical nature of British science
B) the Puritan work-ethic
C) agitation of British parliament
D) the depletion of wood

Question 14

Modern capitalism never fully developed in China because

A) China had no iron industry
B) China never developed paper currency
C) China had not invented the compass for long distance travel
D) China didn't possess gunpowder to defend itself militarily
E) none of the above

Question 15

The first capitalist state that was a core country, not just a city-state was England.

Question 16

Merchant capitalism in Italy demonstrates the limitation of Weber's Protestant work ethic thesis.

Question 17

According to Chapter 14 the state policy of mercantilism occurred only prior to the beginning of the free-trade period championed by Adam Smith.

Question 18

The "Columbian exchange" brought prestige goods such as gold and silver back to Europe from the Americas.

Question 19

The Ottoman Empire is a good example of a semiperipheral marcher state creating a large empire by means of conquest.

Question 20

The English were the main force that blocked the Hapsburg's from establishing an empire throughout Europe.

Question 21

Amsterdam was the key city that connected the trade routes between the Mediterranean and the Baltic Seas in the 15ᵗʰ century.

Question 22

Compared with France and England, the Dutch state was successful because its state was highly centralized.

Question 23

Like the Italian city-states, the Dutch East India organized the Dutch economy as entirely based on merchant capitalism.

Question 24

For the first time in human history the Peace of Westphalia recognized the principle of national sovereignty for the entire modern world-system, including its peripheries.

Question 25

Agricultural capitalism producing sugar, tobacco and indigo in the 17ᵗʰ century mainly used slave labor.

Question 26

The world revolution of 1789 included the American Revolution, the French Revolution the Haitian Revolution and the Latin American revolutions led by Simon Bolivar.

Question 27

Discuss the main cultural, organizational and institutional similarities and differences between Europe, South Asia and East Asia in the 15ᵗʰ through the 18ᵗʰ centuries.

Question 28

What were the main reasons why China cut short its intercontinental expansion during the early Ming Dynasty?

Question 29

What are the important similarities between the first and second waves of European expansion?

Question 30

What was the world historical significance of the Manila Galleon?

Question 31

In what ways were processes of development occurring in Poland in the 16ᵗʰ century similar to what was happening in Latin America?

Question 32

What is the evolutionary significance of the rise of the Hapsburg dynasty?

Question 33

Discuss the implications of the Wallerstein-Zolberg debate for the comparative study of world-systems.

Question 34

Discuss the definition of world parties proposed in Chapter 14 and the roles that these organizations played in the evolution of global governance.

Question 35

Discuss the idea of protection rent and the role it played in the development of capitalist states.

Question 36

Describe the ways in which the Protestant Reformation was an important part of the Dutch revolution and the rise of Dutch hegemony.

Question 37

In what ways can the Dutch Republic of the 17ᵗʰ century be seen as an evolutionary midpoint between Venice and the United Kingdom of Great Britain?

Question 38

Describe how Immanuel Wallerstein's three stages of hegemony fit the case of the Dutch hegemony.