Unit 5 Review

ILLUSTRATION IN A MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN TO CELEBRATE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE OTTOMAN SULTAN SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT, CIRCA 1560

The image shows Ottoman officials forcibly enlisting boys from the empire’s Christian subjects in the Balkans to train them for service in the Ottoman army and bureaucracy.

The Ottoman Empire’s recruitment of soldiers and bureaucrats through the system depicted in the image is most similar to which broader method that rulers used to strengthen their empires in the period 1450–1750?

(Pages 158, 163)

• The collection of tribute

• Establishment of religious uniformity

• Abolition of feudal privileges

• The granting of autonomy to minority groups

ILLUSTRATION IN A MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN TO CELEBRATE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE OTTOMAN SULTAN SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT, CIRCA 1560

The image shows Ottoman officials forcibly enlisting boys from the empire’s Christian subjects in the Balkans to train them for service in the Ottoman army and bureaucracy.

The recruitment depicted in the image is best understood in the context of which of the following developments in the period 1450–1750?

(Pages 158, 163)

• Attempts by imperial states to expand their economic power

• Attempts by imperial states to prevent religious conflict

• Attempts by imperial states to centralize their authority

• Attempts by imperial states to control population growth

ILLUSTRATION IN A MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN TO CELEBRATE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE OTTOMAN SULTAN SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT, CIRCA 1560

The image shows Ottoman officials forcibly enlisting boys from the empire’s Christian subjects in the Balkans to train them for service in the Ottoman army and bureaucracy.

The inclusion of the image in the manuscript best illustrates which of the following features of the period 1450–1750?

(Pages 158, 163)

• Rulers using art as a way to communicate with their illiterate subjects

• Rulers using art to expand their territories

• Rulers using art as a way to increase literacy

• Rulers using art to legitimize their rule

MUGHAL FORCES LED BY THE EMPEROR AURANGZEB CAPTURE THE FORTRESS OF GOLCONDA, CAPITAL OF A RIVAL MUSLIM INDIAN STATE, IN 1687. PAINTING BY AN ANONYMOUS INDIAN ARTIST, CIRCA 1760.

The image best supports which of the following claims regarding developments in the period from 1450 to 1750?

• European military technology was inferior to Asian military technology.

• Rulers served as military commanders and typically led armies into battle themselves.

• Gunpowder technology facilitated the expansion of land-based empires.

• Religious divisions were not a significant source of military conflict.

Which is the most likely reason that rulers during the seventeenth century built elaborate palaces such as the one at Versailles, France, shown in the image?

(Pages 156, 160, 162)

• To demonstrate their wealth and power

• To provide jobs for artists, architects, and builders

• To create fortresses as a defense against invading armies

• To glorify and demonstrate the power of the official state religion

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.?

(Page 163)

• 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.

Which of the following empires in the period 1450–1750 engaged in a type of territorial expansion most similar to that depicted in the map?

• The Spanish Empire

• The Portuguese Empire

• The British Empire

• The Mughal Empire

Which of the following best explains a similarity between the earliest English and French voyages across the North Atlantic in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

(Pages 203-204)

• They succeeded despite receiving little support from their respective state governments.

• They were often launched in the hopes of finding alternative sailing routes to Asia.

• They were ended after encountering violent resistance from Portuguese and Spanish naval forces.

• They helped convince western European monarchies to abandon mercantilist policies in favor of free-trade policies.

Which of the following best explains an effect of Spanish voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in Europe in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

(Page 199)

Hint: When answering this question on paper, you should have underlined the words "in Europe".

Only one of these answer choices is an accurate description of the effect of Spanish voyages in Europe.

• They encouraged many governments to expand the use of coerced labor in Europe.

• They led to the rapid spread of epidemic diseases such as smallpox.

• They greatly increased interest in transoceanic travel and trade in other European countries.

• They led to the introduction of new staple crops such as sugar.

Which of the following provides the most accurate description of the Columbian Exchange?

(Pages 209-214)

• European food to the Western Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere diseases to Europe; African population to Europe

• African livestock to the Western Hemisphere; European technology to Africa; Western Hemisphere food to Europe

• Western Hemisphere technology to Africa; African food to Europe; European population to the New World

• African population to the Western Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere food to Europe and Africa; African and European diseases to the Western Hemisphere