Deck 14: The Unification of World Trade

Question 1

The English Navigation Act of 1651 imposed ________.

A) taxes on all slave ships
B) restrictions on who could ship to and from England and its colonies
C) import duties on tea and sugar
D) expensive licenses on anyone wanting to trade within the British Empire

Answer 1

restrictions on who could ship to and from England and its colonies

Question 2

The dominant economic policy among European countries in the 1500s to 1700s was ________.

A) capitalism
B) mercantilism
C) laissez-faire
D) socialism

Answer 2

mercantilism

Question 3

The Dutch East India Company was most active in ________.

A) India
B) Africa
C) southeast Asia
D) China

Answer 3

southeast Asia

Question 4

The encomienda system gave ________ to Spanish colonists.

A) Indian labor
B) American lands
C) mineral rights
D) American markets

Question 5

In New Spain,haciendas were ________.

A) labor grants
B) rural estates
C) monasteries
D) land grants

Question 6

The Council of Trent was called in 1545 by the ________ Church.

A) Calvinist
B) Protestant
C) Catholic
D) Anglican

Question 7

Which of these countries established the trading post of El Mina?

A) Spain
B) France
C) Portugal
D) the Netherlands

Question 8

The Protestant Reformation was launched by ________.

A) Henry VIII
B) Martin Luther
C) John Calvin
D) Johannes Gutenberg

Question 9

The leaders in colonization in the 1500s were ________.

A) Spain and Portugal
B) Britain and France
C) the Netherlands and Germany
D) Italy and Austria

Question 10

Which of these conflicts was ended by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?

A) Seven Years War
B) Thirty Years War
C) Hundred Years War
D) War of the League of Augsburg

Question 11

Which of these is held together only by a sense of shared background?

A) state
B) nation
C) republic
D) city-state

Question 12

Huguenots were ________.

A) partisans of Catherine de' Medici
B) colonists in France's North American colonies
C) Indian traders
D) French Protestants

Question 13

The productive Potosí silver mine is located in modern ________.

A) Argentina
B) Peru
C) Mexico
D) Brazil

Question 14

Vasco da Gama was an explorer for the ________ crown.

A) Spanish
B) Portuguese
C) English
D) French

Question 15

Which of these men led the conquest of Mexico?

A) Vasco da Gama
B) Francisco Pizarro
C) Huayna Capec
D) Hernán Cortés

Question 16

The bourse,which opened in Amsterdam in the 1500s,was a ________.

A) university
B) stock exchange
C) scientific academy
D) prison

Question 17

Which of these was a religious reformer from Geneva,Switzerland?

A) Vincent de Paul
B) Ignatius Loyola
C) Francis Xavier
D) John Calvin

Question 18

Jean-Baptiste Colbert was the ________ of Louis XIV.

A) chief economist
B) foreign minister
C) defense minister
D) religious advisor

Question 19

Which of these conflicts ended in 1763?

A) Seven Years War
B) War of the Austrian Succession
C) French Wars of Religion
D) War of the League of Augsburg

Question 20

Which of these men developed the notion of laissez-faire?

A) Jean-Baptiste Colbert
B) Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
C) Adam Smith
D) Cardinal Richelieu

Question 21

The main goal of the Portuguese in Asia and Africa was ________.

A) establishing plantations
B) finding sources of slaves
C) trade
D) settlement

Question 22

Encomiendas were established to ________.

A) exert Spanish control in the Americas
B) grow tobacco
C) convert Native Americans to Christianity
D) extract American mineral resources

Question 23

Most of the gold and silver that poured into Spain from the New World went to ________.

A) Spain's economic development
B) administration of Spain's New World empire
C) the crown's private account
D) military spending

Question 24

The Dutch East India Company can be characterized as ________.

A) a failed experiment
B) powerful and successful
C) an independent state
D) moderately successful, but short lived

Question 25

The Anglican Church was founded primarily for ________ reasons.

A) religious
B) economic
C) military
D) political

Question 26

On the map "The first European trading empires," most Portuguese colonization around 1750 ________.

A) was found in the Americas
B) occurred in competition with England
C) lay in the Indian Ocean region
D) was confined to coastal regions

Question 27

Akbar was ruler of the ________ Empire.

A) Mughal
B) Ottoman
C) Timurid
D) Safavid

Question 28

Joint stock companies were an example of ________.

A) capitalism
B) laissez-faire
C) mercantilism
D) a moral economy

Question 29

In the seventeenth century,________ gained economic control of the Philippines.

A) Portugal
B) England
C) the Netherlands
D) Spain

Question 30

Which of these came to power in Japan after the Battle of Sekigahara?

A) the Meiji emperor
B) the Tokugawa Shogunate
C) the Ming dynasty
D) Oda Nobunaga

Question 31

The conquest of the Aztecs and Inca can be characterized as ________.

A) immediate
B) extremely slow
C) slow
D) rapid

Question 32

In the image "The fortress of São Jorge da Mina" shows that the primary function of such installations was ________.

A) conquest
B) to protect trade
C) farming
D) as a penal colony

Question 33

On the map "The Reformation in Europe,there is a close correlation between Catholic lands and ________.

A) Slavic lands
B) less urbanized regions
C) Byzantine rule
D) the western Roman Empire

Question 34

Capitalists contribute ________ to foster commerce.

A) labor
B) land
C) financing
D) equipment

Question 35

Hernán Cortés is perhaps the most famous example of a ________.

A) hacienda
B) conquistador
C) encomendero
D) Franciscan

Question 36

Peter I (Peter the Great)began his reign in the ________ century.

A) nineteenth
B) fifteenth
C) seventeenth
D) thirteenth

Question 37

In France,mercantilism ________ the notion of the divine right of kings.

A) was used as a tool of
B) ran counter to
C) arose from
D) was undermined by

Question 38

Ivan III is best known for ________.

A) founding Kiev
B) ending serfdom in Russia
C) founding the Russian Orthodox Church
D) freeing Russia of Mongol rule

Question 39

Which of these best describes the goal of mercantilism?

A) increasing a country's wealth
B) building international trade networks
C) regulating trade
D) laissez-faire

Question 40

At the time of the Spanish invasions,the Inca and Aztec empires were ________.

A) crumbling
B) at their height
C) weakened
D) just emerging

Question 41

How did the emergence of the nation-state change the nature of imperialism?

Question 42

In a nation-state,which of these would be considered "the other"?

A) women
B) workers
C) foreigners
D) capitalists

Question 43

Russian expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was accomplished largely at the expense of ________.

A) its serfs
B) the Orthodox Church
C) the landed gentry
D) imperial power

Question 44

How did colonization and mercantilism work together? Were their goals mutually supportive or contradictory?

Question 45

Compare the goals of Spanish and Portuguese colonization.How did these goals affect these nations' imperial institutions?

Question 46

Which of these was Peter the Great's favorite model in the reforms he attempted in Russia?

A) Britain
B) the Netherlands
C) France
D) Sweden

Question 47

Looking at the map "British power in India to 1818," it is clear that the British gained power in India ________.

A) rapidly
B) from south to north
C) from the coasts inland
D) piecemeal

Question 48

Compare the Ottoman and Mughal empires.What were their most important similarities and differences?

Question 49

Compared to Ottoman treatment of different religions,Akbar ________.

A) used the same methods
B) had the opposite goals
C) shared similar goals
D) implemented less tolerant policies

Question 50

The millet system in the Ottoman Empire followed the same tradition as Muslim treatment of ________.

A) slaves
B) dhimmi
C) foreigners
D) merchants

Question 51

Unlike the Inca Empire,when faced by Spanish conquistadors,the Aztec Empire was ________.

A) attacked by its neighbors
B) defeated only with difficulty
C) at the height of its power
D) already nearly gone

Question 52

In the image "John Calvin weighing the Bible against popish pomp," which of these best characterizes the Protestants?

A) worldly
B) sober
C) learned
D) unconcerned

Question 53

In the context of global contacts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,Japan was increasingly ________.

A) aggressive
B) innovative
C) apathetic
D) isolated

Question 54

What were the most important short-term and long-term impacts of the Protestant Reformation?

Question 55

Nation-states gain their unity from ________.

A) common origins
B) a shared sense of identity
C) a shared history
D) loyalty to a ruler