Practice Questionnaire #2

The Gunpowder revolution took place in:

• Only France

• Eastern Europe and Asia

• Russia

• Latin America

What is the gunpowder revolution

• states spent more of their revenues on the military

• advancements of warfare

• replacing spikes and spears with cannons and weapons for use on land and sea

• all of the above

What is bureacracy?

• state officials can take decisions that would previously only be taken by elected officials.

• officials that now follow a hierarchical order instead of only the nobles/clergy.

• multilayered system that administers government, takes longer to make a decision.

• all of the above

What was the commercial revolution:

• This was the rapid expansion of business fueled overseas trade and colonization.

• This was negative for the economy.

• The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry.

• A large increase in the use of fertilizers.

What is secular?

• religious thought

• Switch from belief in religion to the belief of the principles of science

• obeying the clergy

• rise of European power

Conquistadors did NOT do the following:

• conquer and defeat Aztecs and Indians

• colonize the Americas

• befriend the natives

• destroyed great civilizations

Silver Mining became the main activity of the Spanish colonies.

• True

• False

inflation is ______ prices

Choose the answer that fits BEST:

The Columbian exchange was:

• potatoes, corn and beans

• an exchange of food, crops, cattle and ideas

• an exchange of food, crops, livestock, ideas, languages and diseases.

• religion and people

Choose the answer that fits BEST

The Great Dying was:

• a lot of deaths

• 50% of the native population died from disease and slavery provoked by the interactions with Europe.

• the result of many wars between Aztecs and Spanish