35 questions
In which empire was a Shia version of Islam made the official religion in the sixteenth century?
A) Ottoman Empire
B) Mughal Empire
C) Songhay Empire
D) Safavid Empire
Which of the following was a motivation for European expansion but not for Chinese expansion in the fifteenth century
A) to enroll distant peoples and states in the tribute system
B) To gain direct access to the goods and wealth of the Indian Ocean basin
C) to eliminate piracy in the Indian Ocean
D)to replace the population that had been lost to the Black Death
Which of the following is true of the Mughal Empire?
A) it unified the people of Islam and Christendom
B) formed as a result of Chinese exploration in the Indian Ocean
C) it established unified control over most of the Indian peninsula
D) it showed tolerance for Hindu subjects
What feature did the Mughal Empire and Songhay Empire share?
A) The rulers were Muslim, but the majority of the population was not
B) The rollers for Sunni Muslim while the majority of the population was shia Muslim
C) both were in the heartland of the Islamic world
D) The rulers of both empires were Sufi holy men
The wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to
A) the need for labor service
B) the practice of human sacrifice
C) the search for "wives of the sun
D) the control of long distance trade routes
What did the Inca Empire do that the Aztec Empire did not do?
A) claimed descent from early mesoamerican people
B) engage in agriculture and trade
C) Build an elaborate bureaucracy to integrate and control its subjects
D) Offer prisoners of war to the gods as human sacrifices
What could women do in both the Aztec and Inca Empires?
A) Join the military
B) Exercise political authority
C) Have more than one husband
D) preside over human sacrifices
Which of the following was a feature of the communities in Australia in the fifteenth century?
A) The practice of slavery
B) The practice of "firestick farming"
C) Permanent village settlements
D) Economic specialization
In the fifteenth century, what did the Igbo people in West Africa have in common with the Iroquois League in North America?
A) Centralized kingdoms and stratified societies
B) Plantation economies dependent on slave labor
C) Institutions for resolving conflict in the absence of a state
D) Seclusion of women
Which of the following was the largest pastoral society in West Africa in the fifteenth century?
A) The Benin
B) The Fulbe
C) The Yoruba
D) The Igbo
Why did the maritime expeditions of the Indian Ocean basin sponsored by the among empires suddenly stop in 1433?
A) The court eunuchs who rose to power prioritized farming over commerce
B) Most of the cultures they encountered reacted with hostility and violence
C) The emperor's successors viewed expansion as a waste of resources.
D) 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?
A) The culture of past Chinese dynasties
B) The emerging civilization in Western Europe
C) The empire established by Timur
D) The Islamic World
Which of the following reflected the fragmented and competitive political environment in Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
A) The Sunni/Shia divide
B) Christian de Pizan's City of Ladies
C) The Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe
D) The Hundred Years' War between England and France
Which of the following pairs of societies shard a common religion?
A) The Aztecs and the Incas
B) The Songhay Empire and the Ottoman Empire
C) The Mughal Empire and the Vijayanagara
D) 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
A) gender parallelism
B) gender equality
C) matriarchy
D) patriarchy
In the fifteenth century, the gathering and hunting way of life associated with the Paleolithic era persisted in
A) Southeast Asia
B) North Africa
C) the Amazon River Basin
D) Australia
Refer to Map 12.1 in the textbook. The empire that encompassed Persia and Afghanistan in the fifteenth century marked
A) a shift in the balance of power in favor of the civilizations of outer Eurasia
B) the golden age of Buddhism in the Middle East
C) the last military conquest by nomadic people from Central Asia
D) the relentless advance of the farming frontier
Which of the following was a principle underlying the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois League?
A) protection of private property
B) limited government
C) survival of the fittest
D) 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?
A) China
B) Western Europe
C) The Songhay Empire
D) The Aztec Empire
Which of the following was a value emphasized in the Renaissance?
A) frugality
B) equality
C) liberty
D) individualism
After the fifteenth century, how did the Chinese state resolve the problem created by a growing population and land scarcity?
A) ending the tribute system
B) establishing equal trade relations with European countries
C) more intensive use of available land
D) state sponsorship of oceanic expansion
Which empire ended the Byzantine Empire and came the closest to conquering Europe?
A) Timur's Empire
B) Ottoman Empire
C) Delhi Sultanate
D) Mughal Empire
The ruler of the Songhay Empire made the pilgrimage to Mecca and asked to be given which title?
A) Caliph of the Land of the Blacks
B) Terror of the Turk
C) Strong Sword of Islam
D) Pioneer of Progress and Enlightenment
How was Islam introduced into Southeast Asia and West Africa?
A) as a result of Arab conquest
B) as a result of Turkic conquest
C) by traveling merchants
D) by Muslim crusaders
In what ways were the Aztec and Inca empires similar?
A) both had a class of professional merchants known as pochteca
B) both were loosely structured and unstable conquest states
C) both encouraged the assimilation of conquered peoples into their societies
D) both started out as marginalized peoples who conquered and absorbed older cultures
What did the Aztec Empire require conquered people to do?
A) register marriages
B) pay tribute
C) learn about Aztec culture
D) speak the Aztec language
In the fifteenth century, long-distance trade shifted to
A) East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean
B) Central Asia, Russia, and the Caspian Sea
C) North Africa, Portugal, and the Mediterranean
D) 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?
A) Timbuktu
B) Samarkand
C) Malacca
D) Tenochtitlan
Which of the following was a web of connection that linked many of the peoples in the world of the fifteenth century?
A) Industrialization
B) Capitalism
C) Nationalism
D) Empire
In which century did European peoples begin to take on a more prominent role on the global stage?
A) First Century
B) Sixth century
C) Tenth century
D) Fifteenth Century
The use of the quipu in the image above best illustrates which of the following features of pre-modern civilizations?
a. Rulers used bureaucracies to administer their empires.
b. Rulers relied on religious authority to justify their rule.
c. Rulers used military force to impose their rule on other peoples.
d. Rulers relied on feudal arrangements to administer their domains.
Ancient Mesoamerican and Andean civilizations most commonly used which of the following activities to demonstrate their religious authority?
a. The sponsoring of production of religious
b. The performance of elaborate sacrifice rituals
c. The creation of record keeping implements
d. The sponsorship of astronomical research
Which of the following best describes the significance of urban centers for pre-modern civilizations?
a. They provided surplus manpower for armies
b. They reflected and reinforced The stratification of society along class lines
c. They were centers of trade commercial activity.
d. They were exclusively religious centers for pilgrimages.
A historian would most likely use the image in Source 1 as support for which of the following assertions?
A
b. Mughal rulers were interested in portraying themselves as champions of religious harmony.
C
D
Source 2 indicates that all of the following were likely factors contributing to Sikhism’s populartiy in India EXCEPT:
A
B
C
d. If offered a set of principles around which all Indians could rally in resisting British imperial encroachment.