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Midterm review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 10hrs 0mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What continuities helped China maintain their power?

a)

Merchants and missionaries

b)

Islam

c)

Imperial bureaucracy and Confucianism

d)

The Enlightenment

2.

How were China and Aztec similar in how they dealt with people on the periphery of their empires?

a)

Made them pay tribute to show dominance

b)

They were forced to practice Islam

c)

They had to follow other religion

d)

They weren't similar

3.

Who was most responsible for the spread of Islam to West Africa and SE Asia?

a)

The Mongols

b)

Sufi Missionaries

c)

Traders

d)

Muslim Merchants

4.

Which nation had the greatest manufacturing capacity in the period 1000-1450?

a)

Japan

b)

China

c)

England

d)

Spain

5.

What was an important factor in the spread of the bubonic plague in Eurasia?

a)

Atlantic slave trade

b)

Mongol expanision

c)

Indians coming into the US

d)

Disease

6.

What led to an increase in China’s population in the period 1000-1450?

a)

The Enlightenment

b)

Crop rotation

c)

Agricultural outputs such as rice

d)

Mercantilism

7.

What social class held power in the time period 600-1450?

a)

Landholding Aristocrats

b)

No one

c)

Merchants

d)

Muslims

8.

Angkor Wat in Cambodia is an example of?

a)

A monarchy

b)

Islam influence

c)

Dominance

d)

Hindu influence in Southeast India

9.

What helped agricultural techniques in the Song dynasty?

a)

Improvements to the grand canal

b)

More routes for maritime trade

c)

Expansion

d)

Military dominance

10.

How did the Mongols help trade along the Silk Roads?

a)

They had all the ships

b)

They had control over everyone

c)

All of the above

d)

They protected trade routes from attacks

11.

What contributed to the decline in Eurasian urban populations in the 14th century?

a)

Nothing

b)

Crops

c)

Animals

d)

Epidemic disease

12.

What was an important factor in the spread of Islam in SE Asia circa 1250-1500?

a)

China

b)

Mongols

c)

Muslim Merchants and Sufi Missionaries

d)

All of the above

13.

Why was Mali Prosperous?

a)

Their gold and salt trade

b)

Because they had control over the silk roads

c)

None of the above

d)

They had control over maritime trade

14.

What helped increase trade along the trans-Saharan trade networks?

a)

Internal combustion engine

b)

Compass

c)

Crop rotation

d)

Caravans and other technologies

15.

Who traded in the Indian ocean in the period 1000-1450?

a)

Japanese

b)

Asian, Middle Eastern, and East African merchants

c)

Africans and Europeans

d)

The mongols

16.

What did merchant diaspora communities have in common?

a)

They introduced their own cultural practices into local cultures

b)

They took local cultures and turned it into their own practices

c)

They didn't have anything in common

d)

They both had merchants that traded along the silk roads

17.

What did states use to establish large empires in the 1500s?

a)

Military

b)

Weapons

c)

Gunpowder

d)

Nothing

18.

Which empires used gunpowder?

a)

Ottoman and Europeans

b)

Ottoman, Safavid, Mughals, and the Qing

c)

All of the above

d)

Africans and French

19.

How did the safavid empire differ from the ottoman and mughal empires?

a)

They didn't differ they were the same

b)

Safavid practiced Sunni Islam while the Ottoman and Mugals practiced Shi'a islam

c)

They both practiced islam

d)

Safavid practiced Shi'a islam while the ottoman and Mugals practiced Sunni Islam

20.

European monarchs claimed divine rights of kings is an example of rulers using?

a)

Religion to legitimize political authority

b)

Monarchy

c)

Dictatorship

d)

All of the above

21.

Why did rulers build elaborate palaces?

a)

Influence more people to switch to their religion

b)

Because they wanted to show off

c)

To show their power and wealth

d)

None of the above

22.

Ottoman systems of recruiting soldiers from Christian boys in the Balkans?

a)

Devshirme

b)

Absolute Monarchy

c)

Dictatorship

d)

Christianity

23.

Why did states like the Ottoman do Devshrime?

a)

All of the above

b)

To convert Islams to their religon

c)

To prove that they were better

d)

Centralize authority

24.

What was an important continuity from the Ming dynasty to the Qing dynasty?

a)

Civil service exam and other bureaucratic practices

b)

Compass

c)

Steel production

d)

the telephone

25.

What was the effect of the Spanish voyages of Columbus?

a)

People left Spain

b)

More people moved to Spain to trade

c)

Increased transoceanic travel and trade in other European countries influenced colonization

d)

There was no effect

26.

Why did the Portuguese establish trading posts?

a)

Control access to maritime routes

b)

Access to the Silk Roads

c)

Trade easier

d)

Routes to Asia

27.

Why did the Portugues, English, and French send voyages across the North Atlantic in the 1400-1500?Al

a)

All of the above

b)

New countries to trade with

c)

Routes to Spain

d)

Alternative sailing routes to Asia

28.

What was a change in Africa in regards to enslaved Africans between 1450-1750 (where were they transported)?

a)

Enslaved Africans are transported across the Sahara instead of the Atlantic

b)

They had to work on farms because farms were labor intensive

c)

Enslaved Africans are transported across the Atlantic instead of the Sahara

d)

The routes stayed the same

29.

Results of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa?

a)

Depopulation of men in West Africa

b)

Increased warfare and violence

c)

Destabilization of local African societies

d)

All of the above

30.

Why did the Portuguese colony of Brazil have lots of African slaves and why were so many needed?

a)

They were too lazy to do it themselves

b)

Increase in global demand for cash crops such as sugar and sugar farming was labor intensive

c)

People needed slaves to work on their farms

d)

None of the above

31.

What was the effect of the spread of Christianity among Amerindian societies after 1500?

a)

Armedians maintained local customs by combining their beliefs with elements of Christianity

b)

They converted to Christianity

c)

They stuck to their religion

d)

Armedians didn't maintain local customs

32.

What are the principles of mercantilism?

a)

Limited amount of wealth

b)

Nations should export more than imported

c)

wealth is measured in gold and silver

d)

colonies are to enrich the parent country through providing raw materials

e)

All options

33.

What policy did Bolivar reject and use as reason for independence from Spain?

a)

Civil Service Exam

b)

Christianity

c)

Merchantilism

d)

Declaration of Independence

34.

Revolutions in both North and South America were based on the ideas of?

a)

The Englightenment

b)

Industrial revolution

c)

American Revolution

d)

French Revolution

35.

What led to European dominance in the world economy starting in the 1800s?

a)

American Revolution

b)

French revolution

c)

Enlightenment

d)

Industrial revolution

36.

How did improved agricultural productivity impact industrialization?

a)

Slaves began to work in schools

b)

More labor was needed so they had to get more slaves

c)

Less labor was needed on farms so people moved to cities to work in factories

d)

None

37.

What helped move people to the interior regions and connected the interior to the coast?

a)

factories

b)

slave atlantic slave trade

c)

Silk roads

d)

Railroads

38.

What is an example of how European industrialized nations achieved global dominance at the expense of other non-European nations?

a)

Increase in slave populations

b)

Decrease in populations in the economy

c)

Decline of India's textile industry

d)

More trade

39.

What helped lead to the increase in living standards for workers?

a)

More inexpensive consumer goods

b)

Technological innovations

c)

Maritime trade

d)

All of the above

40.

What did the policies of the Meiji reforms bring about in Japan?

a)

Silk Road

b)

Trade

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Rapid industrialization