Ch. 5

True or False: During the 16th century, Russia began to expand in order to secure its border(s) from attack.

• True

• False

For this reason, Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain were the first to expand into the New World:

• They had a long tradition of maritime exploration.

• Their geographic location on the Atlantic coast.

• They believed in ancient legends of a lost world across the ocean.

• They wanted to seek out iron ore.

Which of the following highlights the intersection between the Little Ice Age and the phenomenon scholars term the General Crisis?

• The inability of shamans to control the weather discredited popular religions.

• Climatic changes exacerbated conditions that led to popular unrest.

• The re-emergence of land bridges led to the age of mass migration.

• Efforts to predict the weather led to an overturning of established truths.

True or False: Native Americans in Mesoamerica and Peru rejected blending their old customs into Catholic practices.

• True

• False

Qing China's policy toward its possessions in Central Asia was:

• A massive migration of Chinese settlers into the area

• Assimilation of the local populations into Chinese society

• Respect for the different cultures of the region

• The imposition of a special tax on Muslims

This distinguished the empires of Western Europe from other empires:

• They spread diseases to conquered peoples.

• They were initiated by maritime expansion.

• They were created by merchants.

• They were accompanied by religious conversion of conquered peoples.

The emergence of an Atlantic world connecting four continents would best characterize:

• A shift in the global balance of power in favor of Russia.

• Establishment of European empires in the Americas.

• Impacts of the spread of smallpox from the Americas to Eurasia.

• A sharp decline in population in Europe and Asia.

This event in the fifteenth century signaled that the Islamic world held the upper hand over the Christian world:

• The Treaty of Nerchinsk

• The Treaty of Tordesillas

• The reconquista and its aftermath

• The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

This describes what happened to the native populations of the steppes and Siberia as a consequence of Russian imperial expansion:

The introduction of corn and potatoes into the Afro-Eurasian diet was a result of: