WHAP Unit 3

Which of the following was a method rulers in Eurasia used to legitimize and consolidate their power during the period 1450 C.E. to 1750 C.E.?

• Developing professional militaries

• Promoting free trade

• Adopting the religious practices of minority groups

• Enacting reforms to decrease economic and social inequalities

Which of the following factors contributed most to Manchu expansion in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

• The development of large trading companies

• The adoption of Buddhist beliefs

• The military alliances with western European states

• The use of cannons and gunpowder

Which of the following best describes the relationship that the Chinese and Aztec empires had with their respective peripheral states during the fifteenth century C.E.?

• Both empires used military force to severely limit the sovereignty of their peripheral states to their core states.

• Both empires welcomed the diffusion of cultural traditions from their peripheral territories.

• Both empires established tributary relationships with their peripheral states.

• Both empires actively sought to assimilate the citizens of their peripheral states into their respective core cultures.

From 1400-11750, Eurasian rulers sponsored the arts primarily for which of the following reasons?

• To display power and legitimize their rule

• To spend excess money collected in taxes

• To encourage tourism and pilgrimages

• To increase employment opportunities for struggling artists

Which of the following contributed the most to the Ottoman Empire’s successful expansion in Europe and the Middle East in the period from 1450 to 1600 ?

• The Ottomans’ use of revenues from transoceanic trade to build a powerful army

• The Ottomans’ use of nomadic tribes as cavalry troops

• The Ottomans’ adoption of the latest gunpowder and artillery technology

• The Ottomans’ exploitation of Muslim desire to avenge the crusades

The photograph above of a sixteenth-century Mughal mosque in India built by Akbar is an example of which of the following?

• Emergence of capitalist economies

• Expansion of coercive labor systems

• Creation of a global trade network

• Cultural syncretism

Which of the following world history processes was most responsible for the eighteenth-century cityscape of St. Petersburg, Russia, shown above?

• Disease diffusion

• World Climate changes

• Westernization

• Democratization

The Ottoman ruler who captured Constantinople was

• Babur

• Suleyman the Magnificent

• Osman Bey

• Mehmed II