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| 4554887169 | Which of the following was not one of the main inspirations for European exploration? | The Desire to conquer China and India | 0 | |
| 4554887170 | The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was | Portugal | 1 | |
| 4554887171 | The Portuguese viewed the Atlantic Ocean islands as the perfect location for the cultivation of | sugarcane | 2 | |
| 4554887172 | Which of the following were both Chinese inventions? | stern-post rudder & magnetic compass | 3 | |
| 4554887173 | Wind wheels | are circular wind patterns whose discovery aided sailing | 4 | |
| 4554887176 | Most of the actual exploration of the Pacific Ocean was carried out by the | English | 5 | |
| 4554887177 | The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to | force merchant ships to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties | 6 | |
| 4554887178 | The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was | Manila | 7 | |
| 4554887179 | The Dutch policy in India was | to control the production of spices | 8 | |
| 4554887180 | The most prosperous country in the Europe in the seventeenth century was | the Netherlands | 9 | |
| 4554887181 | The country that finished the Seven' years war with global hegemony was | England | 10 | |
| 4554887182 | From 1500 to 1800 the largest contingent of migrants consisted of | enslaved Africans | 11 | |
| 4554887183 | the initial driving force in Luther formulating the Ninety-five Theses was | the sale of indulgences | 12 | |
| 4554891141 | What is an indulgence | Something sold by Catholic church to buy your way into heaven | 13 | |
| 4554887184 | The catholic church dramatically pushed the sale of indulgences in the sixteenth century because | of the need to raise funds for the construction of St. Peter's basilica | 14 | |
| 4554887185 | The even which inspired Henry VIII to confront the pope was | Henry's desire to gain a divorce | 15 | |
| 4554887186 | The city which stood as John Calivan's model Protestant community was | Geneva | 16 | |
| 4554887187 | The council of Trent | took steps to reform the Catholic church | 17 | |
| 4554887188 | Ignatius Loyola was instrumental in | creating the society of Jesus | 18 | |
| 4554887189 | the explosion of witch-hunting in the sixteenth century was probably caused by | tensions between Catholics and Protestants | 19 | |
| 4554887191 | The most destructive European conflict before WWI was | the Thirty Years' war | 20 | |
| 4554887192 | Which of the following states developed constitutional states in the the seventeenth century? | England and the Netherlands | 21 | |
| 4554887193 | The principal of European diplomacy in early modern Europe was | the balance of power | 22 | |
| 4554887195 | The first great philosophical proponent of capitalism was | Adam Smith | 23 | |
| 4554887196 | The Ptolemaic universe was based on | a motionless earth surrounded by nine hollow spheres | 24 | |
| 4554887197 | _________ demonstrated that planetary orbits are elliptical, not circular. | Kepler | 25 | |
| 4554887209 | The English colony of Jamestown | barley avoided starvation because of the help of the indigenous population | 26 | |
| 4554887210 | The metis were | individuals of French and indigenous parentage | 27 | |
| 4554887211 | For the Spanish, the greatest attraction of the Americas was | precious metals | 28 | |
| 4554887214 | In North America the Europeans initially found a profitable commodity when they bartered for | fur | 29 | |
| 4554887215 | The fist plentiful labor force for North America were | Indentured Servants | 30 | |
| 4554887223 | A trading post was built as Cape Town in 1652 by the | Dutch | 31 | |
| 4554887224 | The center of Islamic learning in west Africa was | Timbuktu | 32 | |
| 4554887225 | The Fulani | Attempted through military conquest to instill a strict from of Islam in Africa | 33 | |
| 4554887226 | The most important American Crop introduced to Africa in the sixteenth century was | manioc | 34 | |
| 4554887227 | Throughout most of history the majority of slaves came from | war captives | 35 | |
| 4554887228 | The first European slave traders were the | Portuguese | 36 | |
| 4554887229 | As part of the triangular slave trade the Europeans usually picked up slaves in Africa in return for | firearms | 37 | |
| 4554887230 | How many Africans were forcefully brought to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade? | Twelve Million | 38 | |
| 4554887231 | The vast majority of slaves | provided agricultural labor on plantations | 39 | |
| 4554887232 | the only place were a slave revolt actually brought about an end to slavery was | Saint-Dominuge Hati | 40 | |
| 4554887233 | The first European nation to abolish the slave trade was | Denmark | 41 | |
| 4554887234 | The Manchus called their dynasty Qing, which meant | pure | 42 | |
| 4554887235 | Taiwan was conquered by | Kangxi | 43 | |
| 4554887236 | In regards to ruling philosophy and techniques the Qing | followed the same patter that the Ming had established | 44 | |
| 4554887237 | The practice of footbinding | represented the increasing subjugation of women during the Quing dynasty | 45 | |
| 4554887238 | Zheng He | carried out expansive journeys of exploration | 46 | |
| 4554887239 | Foreign trade during the Qing dynasty | was limited and under tight governmental control | 47 | |
| 4554887240 | China fell behind technologically during the Ming and Qing dynasties because | of the collapse of the civil-service examination system | 48 | |
| 4554887241 | With the exception of the emperor and his family, the most exalted members of Chinese society were | the scholar-bureaucrats | 49 | |
| 4554887242 | According to Confucian tradition the most honorable class among the peasants, artisans and merchants was the | peasants | 50 | |
| 4554887243 | The Chinese were hesitant to convert to Christianity because | of Christianities exclusivity | 51 | |
| 4554887244 | The term bakufu means | "Tent Government" | 52 | |
| 4554887245 | Daimyo were | powerful territorial lords | 53 | |
| 4554887246 | The word sakoku refers to | Japan's decision to close trade with the Europeans | 54 | |
| 4554887247 | The process known as "thinning the rice shoots" refers to | a Japanese attempt to limit the population growth | 55 | |
| 4554887249 | The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires were all | Islamic | 56 | |
| 4554887250 | Which of the following empire was inspired by its status as an Islamic outpost on the border of the Christian World | Ottoman | 57 | |
| 4554887251 | The Ottoman institution which provided Balkan slaves for the formation of the Janissaries was the | devshime | 58 | |
| 4554887252 | Hurrem Sultana was | a concubine who had tremendous influence over Sulleyman the Magnificent | 59 | |
| 4554887254 | In the Islamic world the dhimmi | were non-Muslims who received the status of a protected people | 60 | |
| 4554887255 | The jizya was the tax paid by | non-Muslims in an Islamic country | 61 | |
| 4554887256 | The Ottomans took the Byzantine cathedral Hagia Sofia and | converted it into the mosque of Aya Sofya | 62 | |
| 4554887257 | What Islamic city was considered "Half The World?" | Isfahan | 63 | |
| 4554887258 | Under Ivan III the center of expanding Russian state was | Moscow | 64 | |
| 4554887259 | Most important of Ivan III's acquisitions was the city of | Novgorod | 65 | |
| 4554887261 | For most of Russian history the main political, religious and cultural influence came from | Byzantium | 66 | |
| 4554887262 | In the days after the fall of Constantinople many Russians viewed _______ as the "Third Rome" | Moscow | 67 | |
| 4554887263 | Ivan the Terrible's oprichniki wore an insignia with the symbolic picture of | a dogs head and broom | 68 | |
| 4554887264 | to remove the old aristocracy from authority Ivan IV ruled with the help of his | Chosen Council | 69 | |
| 4554887265 | In the year 1610 ______ started a dynasty which lasted until the twentieth century. | Mikhail Romanov | 70 | |
| 4554887266 | The term "westernization" is most associated with what tsar? | Peter The Great | 71 | |
| 4554887267 | By 1725 which country in Europe had the largest army? | Russia | 72 | |
| 4554887268 | Peter the Great's "window on the west" was | St. Petersburg | 73 | |
| 4554887269 | In the Charter of Nobility, Catherine the Great | spelled out the rights and obligations of the nobility | 74 | |
| 4554887270 | The establishment of the pale of settlement restricted ______ to this part of Poland | Jews | 75 | |
| 4554887271 | The kingdom of ________ in the Caucasus traced its dynasty's ancestry back to king David | Georgia | 76 | |
| 4554887272 | The Russians were mainly interested in pushing eastward into Siberia to gain access to | Furs | 77 | |
| 4554887273 | For peasants the main inspiration for migrating to Siberia was | that serfdom did not extend east of the Urals | 78 | |
| 4554887275 | In 1721 an imperial decree from Peter The Great | empowered factory owners to buy serfs to work in their factories | 79 | |
| 4554887276 | The intelligentsia developed during the reign of | Catherine the Great | 80 | |
| 4554887277 | In response to the declaration of the rights of woman and the Female Citizen | The French revolutionary leaders refused to put women's rights on their political adgenda | 81 | |
| 4554887278 | The author of the second Treatise of civil government was | Locke | 82 | |
| 4554887279 | Which of the following was not one of John Locke's main ideas | that although kings did have divine sanction their subjects maintained personal rights | 83 | |
| 4554887280 | Which one of the following was not one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers? | equality for women | 84 | |
| 4554887281 | After the end of the seven years' war | the colonists grew increasingly frustrated with British control and taxes | 85 | |
| 4554887282 | The main slogan for the colonies in the years leading up to the american revolution as | no taxation without representation | 86 | |
| 4554887283 | the declaration of independence's' contractual view of political structure in which the government drew its authority from "the consent of the governed" was influenced by | John Locke | 87 | |
| 4554887284 | Which of the following was not one of the principles built into the Government of the newly formed American State? | the creation of a federal republic | 88 | |
| 4554887285 | The leaders of the french revolution | called for a complete reorganizing of french political, social and cultural structures | 89 | |
| 4554887286 | On June 17 1789 members of the third estate seceded from the Estates General and declared themselves the | national assembly | 90 | |
| 4554887287 | In august 1789 the national assembly expressed the guiding principles of the French Revolution by issuing | The Social Contract | 91 | |
| 4554887288 | The guiding principles of the French Revolution were summed up in the phrase | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity | 92 | |
| 4554887289 | A concordat was | the 1801 agreement between Napoleon and the pope | 93 | |
| 4554887290 | Napoleon's civil code | affirmed the political and legal equality of all adult men | 94 | |
| 4554887291 | the turning point in Napoleon's career was his disastrous 1812 invasion of | Russia | 95 | |
| 4554887292 | Napoleon's final defeat occurred at | Waterloo | 96 | |
| 4554887293 | The only successful slave revolt in history took place in | Saint-Dominique | 97 | |
| 4554887294 | What nineteenth century English thinker promoted individual freedom, universal suffrage, taxation of high personal income, and an extension of the rights of freedom and equality to women? | John Stuart Mill | 98 | |
| 4554887295 | The German leader otto von Bismarack believed that the great issues of his day would be determined by | blood and iron | 99 |
