NEW
Font size
WorksheetsAPW - Reading QuiZziz - Ch 12: Worlds of the 15th Century
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
In the 15th century, what did the Igbo people in West Africa have in common with the Iroquois League in North America?
Centralized kingdoms and stratified societies
Plantation economies dependent on slave labor
Institutions for resolving conflict in the absence of a state
Seclusion of women
Which of the following was the largest pastoral society in West Africa in the fifteenth century?
The Benin
The Fulbe
The Yoruba
The Igbo
Why did the maritime expeditions of the Indian Ocean basin sponsored by the Ming emperor suddenly stop in 1433?
The court eunuchs who rose to power prioritized farming over commerce.
Most of the cultures they encountered reacted with hostility and violence.
The emperor’s successors viewed expansion as a waste of resources.
Naval forces were redirected to deal with the military threat of the Portuguese.
In its effort to recover from the disruption of Mongol rule, where did the Ming dynasty look for inspiration?
The Islamic world
The culture of past Chinese dynasties
The emerging civilization in Western Europe
The empire established by Timur
Which of the following reflected the fragmented and competitive political environment in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries?
The Sunni/Shia divide
Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies
The Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe
The Hundred Years’ War between England and France
In which empire was a Shia version of Islam made the official religion in the sixteenth century?
Ottoman Empire
Mughal Empire
Songhay Empire
Safavid Empire
Which of the following was a motivation for European expansion but not for Chinese expansion in the fifteenth century?
To replace the population that had been lost during the Black Death
To enroll distant peoples and states in the tribute system
To gain direct access to the goods and wealth of the Indian Ocean basin
To eliminate piracy in the Indian Ocean
Which of the following is true of the Mughal Empire?
It unified the people of Islam and Christendom.
It formed as a result of Chinese exploration in the Indian Ocean.
It established unified control over most of the Indian peninsula.
It showed no tolerance for Hindu subjects.
The wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to
the need for labor service.
the practice of human sacrifice.
the search for “wives of the Sun.”
the control of long-distance trade routes.
What did the Inca Empire do that the Aztec Empire did not do?
Claim descent from earlier Mesoamerican peoples
Engage in agriculture and trade
Build an elaborate bureaucracy to integrate and control its conquered subjects
Offer prisoners of war to the gods as human sacrifices
What could women do in both the Aztec and Inca empires?
Join the military
Exercise political authority
Have more than one husband
Preside over human sacrifices
Which of the following pairs of societies shared a common religion?
The Aztecs and the Incas
The Songhay Empire and the Ottoman Empire
The Mughal Empire and Vijayanagara
The Safavid Empire and Ethiopia
The Inca and Aztec empires practiced similar gender-based systems in which women and men operated in two separate but equivalent spheres, a system that scholars call
gender parallelism.
gender equality.
matriarchy.
patriarchy.
In the 15th century, the gathering and hunting way of life associated with the Paleolithic era persisted in
Southeast Asia.
North Africa.
the Amazon River basin.
Australia.
Refer to Map 12.1. The empire that encompassed Persia and Afghanistan in the fifteenth century marked
a shift in the balance of power in favor of the civilizations of outer Eurasia.
the golden age of Buddhism in the Middle East.
the last military conquest by nomadic people from Central Asia.
the relentless advance of the farming frontier.
Which of the following was a principle underlying the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois League?
Protection of private property
Limited government
Survival of the fittest
Loyalty to the state
Which of the following was the most centralized, unified, and prosperous of the world’s major civilizations in the fifteenth century?
China
Western Europe
The Songhay Empire
The Aztec Empire
Which of the following was a value emphasized in the Renaissance?
Frugality
Equality
Liberty
Individualism
After the fifteenth century, how did the Chinese state resolve the problem created by a growing population and land scarcity?
Ending the tribute system
Establishing equal trade relations with European countries
More intensive use of available land
State sponsorship of oceanic expansion
Which empire ended the Byzantine Empire and came the closest to conquering Europe?
Timur’s Empire
Ottoman Empire
Delhi Sultanate
Mughal Empire
In what way were the Aztec and Inca empires similar?
Both had a class of professional merchants known as pochteca.
Both were loosely structured and unstable conquest states.
Both encouraged the assimilation of conquered peoples into their societies.
Both started out as marginalized peoples who conquered and absorbed older cultures.
What did the Aztec Empire require conquered people to do?
Register marriages
Pay tribute
Learn about Aztec culture
Speak the Aztec language, Nahuatl
In the fifteenth century, long-distance trade shifted to
East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean.
Central Asia, Russia, and the Caspian Sea.
North Africa, Portugal, and the Mediterranean.
West Africa, the Americas, and the Atlantic Ocean.
Which city emerged as a major Muslim port city in the Indian Ocean basin in the fifteenth century?
Timbuktu
Samarkand
Malacca
Tenochtitlán
Which of the following was a web of connection that linked many of the peoples in the world of the fifteenth century?
Industrialization
Capitalism
Nationalism
Empire
