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History
10th
grade
Ch. 13: Political Trasformations: Empires and Encounters
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following distinguished the empires of Western Europe from other empires?
They were initiated by maritime expansion.
They were created by merchants.
They were accompanied by religious conversion of conquered peoples.
They spread diseases to conquered peoples.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was a reason that Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain were the first to expand into the New World?
They believed in ancient legends of a lost world across the ocean.
They were on the Atlantic coast and were closer to the Americas.
Their lands lacked iron, which drove them to search for deposits.
They had a long tradition of exploring distant lands by boat.
- 3. Multiple Choice
How did many Native Americans in Mesoamerica and Peru respond to Spanish missionaries’ efforts to convert them to Catholicism?
They blended their old customs into Catholic practices.
They rejected Catholicism completely and maintained their local cultures.
They only pretended to be Catholic when Europeans were around.
They abandoned their old religions and embraced Catholicism entirely.
- 4. Multiple Choice
In contrast to the Portuguese and Spanish colonists in Latin America, British colonists in North America...
were almost exclusively male and Catholic.
sought to escape rather than re-create European traditions in the Americas.
married indigenous women more frequently and were less racist.
faced many class and racial restrictions.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What contributed to higher literacy rates in the British colonies in North America than in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Latin America?
The Spanish and Portuguese governments discouraged literacy among the colonial population.
The British government invested massive funds into building libraries throughout North America.
Spanish and Portuguese colonizers thought Native Americans could not be taught to read.
Protestantism, which was practiced by most British colonists, encouraged reading the Bible for oneself.
- 6. Multiple Choice
How did Chinese and Russian expansion into Central Asia affect the nomadic peoples inhabiting the steppe lands?
They abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and enjoyed success as merchants.
They were absorbed into Chinese and Russian society and lost their identity.
They formed a military confederation and won their independence.
They no longer enjoyed political independence and economic prosperity.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was a result of the Ottoman Empire’s policy toward the Christian population in southeastern Europe?
The majority of the population had converted to Islam by the sixteenth century.
Christians remained a permanent underclass in Ottoman society.
Christian communities enjoyed considerable autonomy over their own affairs.
Christians who refused to convert migrated to the Americas.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was an outcome of the establishment of European empires in the Americas?
A sharp decline in population in Europe and Asia
A shift in the global balance of power in favor of Russia
The spread of smallpox from the Americas to Eurasia
The emergence of an Atlantic world connecting four continents
- 9. Multiple Choice
How did silver from the mines of Mexico and Peru affect international commerce?
It shifted the center of long-distance trade to the Americas.
It enabled Europeans to buy Chinese tea, silk, and porcelain.
It weakened the effectiveness of mercantilist fiscal policies.
It encouraged piracy and smuggling among colonists in North America.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was a reason Russia expanded beginning in the sixteenth century?
To secure its borders from attack
To control the Silk Roads
To monopolize the spice trade
To gain access to gunpowder weapons
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of the following policies contributed to the growth of Hindu opposition to Mughal rule by the late seventeenth century?
Construction of the House of Worship
Promotion of the practice of sati
Reinstatement of the jizya
Creation of an imperial cult
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following highlights the intersection between the Little Ice Age and the phenomenon scholars term the General Crisis?
Efforts to predict the weather led to an overturning of established truths.
Climactic changes exacerbated conditions that led to popular unrest.
The inability of shamans to control the weather discredited popular religions.
The re-emergence of land bridges led to the age of mass migration.
- 13. Multiple Choice
In the conflict between the Islamic and Christian worlds, which event in the fifteenth century signaled that the Islamic world held the upper hand?
The Treaty of Nerchinsk
The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Reconquista and its aftermath
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following resulted from Russia’s westward expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
The conversion of the Russian royal family to Islam
A program of westernization in Russia
The incorporation of Slavic-speaking Ukrainians and Belorussians into the empire
Russia’s monopoly of the fur trade
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes what happened to the native populations of the steppes and Siberia as a consequence of Russian imperial expansion?
Assimilation
Genocide
Enslavement
Resettlement
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