What are the two main theories and conceptions about the origins of capitalism:

Logic of circulation and logic of production.

What is the relationship between the Trans-Atlantic slave trade(TAST) and Indian Ocean commerce (IO/IOC):

TAST enabled exploitation of silver in Americas>used for luxury goods in IO

Which of the following is NOT correct about the Atlantic Revolutions?

led to the establishment of democracies across the European continent.

During the EM period, which strategy was NOT adopted by European empires when trying to expand influence in Asia

Deploying large professional armies from Europe

What principle has Social Darwinist Scientific Racism in common with the Limpieza de Sangre race thesis?

Determinism: position of a "race" is immobile+racial hierarchies are fixed

Why was François Guizot's definition of civilization so useful for European liberals in the 19th century?

showed progress+liberty were concrete product of Europe's turbulent history

What is NOT a characteristic of the pursuance of commercial profits by European mercantile companies in the Americas:

Deference and kowtowing vis-à-vis indigenous rulers.

Which of these statements about European trade monopolies is NOT true?

They almost all had a significant impact on Asian merchants.

What are the origins of Western civilization?

a. The origins of Western civilization are in the East.

What is the relationship between Islam and Oriental Globalization?

The expansion of Islam facilitated the emergence of Oriental Globalization.

In Great Divergence debate, which factor does "culturalist" thesis NOT use to explain Europe's divergence from Asia?

Europe had uniquely favorable environment.

What is the key claim of Michael Roberts about the military revolution of Europe?

competition+warfare (Western Europe 1550-1650) triggered crucial MR

Which development in Eurasia is NOT attributable to the decline of the Mongol and Timurid empires?

The decline of Islamicate empires.

Which of the following statements about human zoos is NOT correct?

were composed of non-European people who voluntaryt chose to take part

What is the doctrine of discovery?

doctrine of Catholic Church;encouraged Europeans to attack+subjugate others

What characterizes core-peripheral complementarity:

It created a way out of Malthusian "resource bottleneck" for imperial core.

Which of the statements below is NOT one of them? They could coexist because..

they jointly devised a system of rules which they both respected

The Macartney embassy of 1793 is best known as:

symbol of Chinese power over Europeans as late as end of C18

Why are in many analyses of Oriental Globalization and the Silk Roads the Sahara overlooked?

It was conceived as a barrier and not as a zone of trade interaction.

Which economic process was isolated from the others (15th–18th c.) in circulationist theory, enabling capitalism's rise?

reorganizing sphere of production, including social relations of production

What is NOT a characteristic of the Pomeranz thesis in the Great Divergence(GD) debate:

birth of capitalism in earlymodern Europe due to long-term growth&divergenc

What is the argument of Political Marxists about the emergence and origins of capitalism (C)?

C emerged from specific reorganization of English agriculture esp in C15-16

What is NOT a characteristic of thalassocratic empires?

They control and project power over territories across landmass.

Which of these assertions is NOT true according to Jason Sharman?

Asian powers grew armies so Europeans wouldn't be able to challenge them

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1
What are the two main theories and conceptions about the origins of capitalism:
Logic of circulation and logic of consumption.
Logic of consumption and logic of accumulation.
Logic of production and logic of consumption.
Logic of circulation and logic of production.
2
What is the relationship between the Trans-Atlantic slave trade(TAST) and Indian Ocean commerce (IO/IOC):
TAST enabled the production of sugar and coffee in the Americas>sold in IOC
TAST enabled the production of goods in the Americas > sold in Eurasia
TAST enabled exploitation of silver in Americas>used for luxury goods in IO
There is no relationship.
3
Which of these was NOT an empire of the medieval world?
The Tang empire.
The Almoravid empire.
The Abbasid empire.
The Mughal empire.
4
Which of the following is NOT correct about the Atlantic Revolutions?
bolstered abolitionist and emancipatory movements for abolition of slavery
led to waves of decolonization and independence in Spanish America.
led to the establishment of democracies across the European continent.
advanced the sovereignty of people as basis/ideal for governance
5
During the EM period, which strategy was NOT adopted by European empires when trying to expand influence in Asia
Being deferential to local rulers
Taking sides in local military conflicts
Deploying large professional armies from Europe
Relying on local allies for financial support
6
What principle has Social Darwinist Scientific Racism in common with the Limpieza de Sangre race thesis?
Racial conflict is a natural form of evolutionary progress.
Determinism: position of a "race" is immobile+racial hierarchies are fixed
Transgenerational transmission of"impurities" through blood
strive for self-preservation leads to competition+the survival of fittest
7
Why was François Guizot's definition of civilization so useful for European liberals in the 19th century?
showed why Europe's past achievements must be cherished and preserved
proved the inevitable decline of European power.
showed progress+liberty were concrete product of Europe's turbulent history
explained why France and Britain were the leading European nations.
8
What is NOT a characteristic of the pursuance of commercial profits by European mercantile companies in the Americas:
Deference and kowtowing vis-à-vis indigenous rulers.
The practice of settler colonialism.
Extraction of natural resources, such as land, silver and gold.
Institution of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
9
Which of these statements about European trade monopolies is NOT true?
They were often circumvented through the black market.
b. They gave companies the sole right to sell on their national markets.
They were important for spices but less so for tea and textiles.
They almost all had a significant impact on Asian merchants.
10
What are the origins of Western civilization?
The origins of Western civilization are in the West.
a. The origins of Western civilization are in the East.
c. The origins of Western civilization are in the Americas.
d. The origins of Western civilization are in Africa
11
What is not a feature of Chinese empires?
Merit-based civil service.
Highly centralized and efficient administration.
Tributary system.
Maritime imperialism.
12
Which of these was the cause of the collapse of medieval empires in Eurasia in the 13th century?
The conquests of European empires.
The conquests of the Mongols.
The conquests of Islamicate empires.
The conquests of the Song empire.
13
What are the effects & legacies of European empires, historically and in contemporary times, on international politics?
Neo-colonialism,economic exploitation,unequal distribution of global wealth
organization of political communities into nation-states; random borders
All of the above
Genocides,erasure of cultures,depopulation of min three continents
14
What is the relationship between Islam and Oriental Globalization?
The expansion of Islam facilitated the emergence of Oriental Globalization.
The emergence of Islam coincidedwith the emergence of OrientalGlobalization
The emergence of Oriental Globalization facilitated the expansion of Islam.
There is no relationship between Islam and Oriental Globalization
15
In Great Divergence debate, which factor does "culturalist" thesis NOT use to explain Europe's divergence from Asia?
Christianity instilled capitalist ethos.
Europe had uniquely favorable environment.
Rationality, science, secularization and technological inventions.
Europe was culturally superior.
16
2. Which historian gave us idea that the "rise of the West" can in large part be explained by the military revolution?
Jason Sharman
Charles Tilly
Michael Roberts
Geoffrey Parker
17
What is according to Jürgen Kocka NOT a characteristic of capitalism:
Centralization.
Accumulation.
Decentralization.
Commodification.
18
What is the key claim of Michael Roberts about the military revolution of Europe?
European militaries used same tactics in wars with non-European polities.
great power wars drove military innovation+state-building in Western Europe
European MR explains rise of modern sovereign state, but also rises of West
competition+warfare (Western Europe 1550-1650) triggered crucial MR
19
Which development in Eurasia is NOT attributable to the decline of the Mongol and Timurid empires?
Russian empire conquers Siberia to the Pacific Ocean.
Ming and Qing dynasties expand westward.
The decline of Islamicate empires.
European voyages of exploration in Eurasian,Atlantic&Indian Ocean worlds
20
Which of the following statements about human zoos is NOT correct?
people in human zoos were represented as less "civilized" (scale of animals
represented white race as superior+civilized
projected and institutionalized the ideas and discourses scientific racism
were composed of non-European people who voluntaryt chose to take part
21
What is the doctrine of discovery?
doctrine of Christopher Columbus after his discovery of Americas in 1492
doctrine of Catholic Church;encouraged Europeans to attack+subjugate others
doctrine of Charles Darwin regarding discoveries in theory of evolution.
doctrine of Catholic Church that sanctified Scientific Revolution
22
What characterizes core-peripheral complementarity:
periphery extracted resources from the imperial core to stay afloat.
There was no complementarity between the core and the periphery.
high birth rates in periphery compensated low demographic growth of core
It created a way out of Malthusian "resource bottleneck" for imperial core.
23
Which of the statements below is NOT one of them? They could coexist because..
Asians were after land power while Europeans were after sea power
Europeans and Asians both understood sovereignty to be divisible attribute
both accepted idea of territorially non-exclusive forms of authority
they jointly devised a system of rules which they both respected
24
The Macartney embassy of 1793 is best known as:
symbol of effectiveness of British diplomacy worldwide (before dominance)
symbol of successful European incursion into Asia(prior to high imperialism
symbol of Chinese humiliation at the hands of ruthless European diplomats
symbol of Chinese power over Europeans as late as end of C18
25
Why are in many analyses of Oriental Globalization and the Silk Roads the Sahara overlooked?
All of the above.
The trade across the Sahara was not important for Oriental Globalization.
There were no powerful empires in the area around and in the Sahara itself.
It was conceived as a barrier and not as a zone of trade interaction.
26
What is NOT a characteristic of Methodological Eurocentrism?
Universal stagism
Linear developmentalism.
Contingency and multiplicity.
Methodological internalism
27
Which economic process was isolated from the others (15th–18th c.) in circulationist theory, enabling capitalism's rise?
reorganizing sphere of production, including social relations of production
Development of powerful territorial states in core.
European imperial expansion.
Rise of merchant capitalism and finance capitalism.
28
What is NOT a characteristic of the Pomeranz thesis in the Great Divergence(GD) debate:
European population growth was paralleled in Eurasia.
birth of capitalism in earlymodern Europe due to long-term growth&divergenc
Europe's growth was paralleled in China&more broadly Eurasia.
GD was only possible due to Eur. privileged access to overseas resources.
29
Who established the discipline of Eugenics at the end of the 19th century?
Francis Galton
Arthur de Gobineau
Herbert Spencer
Carl Linnaeus
30
What is the argument of Political Marxists about the emergence and origins of capitalism (C)?
C emerged in C16+17 as result of overseas European empires.
C emerged in 15th century in the form of merchant capitalism.
C emerged late 18th century as a result of British Industrial Revolution.
C emerged from specific reorganization of English agriculture esp in C15-16
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What is NOT a characteristic of thalassocratic empires?
They require a strong naval fleet and rely upon naval power and force.
They control and project power over territories across landmass.
They can project power, control and force over small islands.
dominate & exercise control over coastline territories and coastlineports.
32
When did Haiti finish paying reparations to France for 'loss of property' due to Haitians declaring independence?
1947
1887
1847
1917
33
Which of these assertions is NOT true according to Jason Sharman?
Asian powers grew armies so Europeans wouldn't be able to challenge them
Asian powers could impose an inferior status on Europeans
Asian powers let Europeans open trading posts because they saw no threat
Asian powers saw establishment of European ports as a sign of prestige.

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