What characteristic distinguished most West African marriages?

They were almost universally polygynous.

What was one of the special privileges enjoyed by European nobility in the eighteenth century?

They were given an exemption from taxes.

In the face of European imperialism, what was the most common initial response of African and Asian rulers?

They raised violent opposition.

late 19th century drive, European countries to have vast political empires

movement of people in which an individual leads the way & others follow

What sparked the Ottoman janissary revolt of 1826?

C) The janissaries were ordered to drill in European style.

The Napoleonic Code asserted two main principles of the revolution, the legal equality of all male citizens and what?

Absolute protection of wealth and property

49. Between 1750 and 1900, what was the Asian population trend?

B) It mirrored population growth in Europe.

Why was Great Britain motivated to engage in imperialism in the 1870s?

It wanted to civilize the Africans more than it did the Indians., Its lead in industrial domination was declining.

On August 27, 1789, the National Assembly issued a statement of principles known as which of the following?

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Why was the Great Wall built by the Ming?

To protect against the Mongol threat

Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa

What was the Middle Passage?

The voyage of African slaves to the Americas

How was Egypt brought under English control?

through the use of debt and finances

Fervent patriots seized power in 1908 and paved the way for modern Turkey

What was the Great Fear?

C) Peasant uprisings in the countryside

West African product used to make soap; ecouraged by the British to grow

By the late eighteenth century, European law recognized only what kinds of people as slaves?

Africans or people of African descent

Why did Louis XVI call the Estaes Genral into session?

He wanted to change the tax code to tax the nobility and clergy

What was the main ecconomic goal of European imperialists in Africa?

To connect Africa to world markets that would be profitable for Europe

As a result of the growth of trade, Europeans made massive foreign investments

in other European countries, the US, and its old dominions like Canada

Scholars have determined that the transatlantic slave trade had what effect on African societies?

It led to wars that destabilized the political structure of many states

Rudyard Kipling wrote his poem “The White Man's Burden” in response to which of the following?

America's seizure of the Philippines

How were chattel slaves viewed?

They were commodities that were considered subhuman property.

How was the slave army of the Ottomans destroied finally?

It was destroyed by the Sulton using artillery

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1
Who did Nepolean put on the throne of Spain?
His mother
no one Spain became a republic
His brother
Batman
2
Quinine proved an effective protection against what debilitating disease?
Syphilis
Yellow Fever
Smallpox
Malaria
3
What characteristic distinguished most West African marriages?
They were virtually all love matches.
They were almost universally polygynous.
They were almost always monogamous.
They were often forced after a war with a neighboring tribe.
4
What was one of the special privileges enjoyed by European nobility in the eighteenth century?
B) They were given the right to purchase titles.
They had a monopoly on road tariffs.
They were given an exemption from taxes.
D) They could take control of a guild of their choosing.
5
Within Beijing was the Forbidden City, which served as what?
A Buddhist temple
A group of imperial tombs
The government's offices
The imperial palace
6
In the face of European imperialism, what was the most common initial response of African and Asian rulers?
They displayed measured indifference.
They immediately began diplomatic negotiations.
They generally deemed it unwise to resist.
They raised violent opposition.
7
Why did Nepolean bring back the old nobility?
it was time
He never really suported Revolutionary ideas to begin with
He believed that they were appointed by God to rule
Needed the taxes
8
Leopold and the companies of the Congo made a fortune from the trade of what cash crop?
Tea
Slaves
Raw rubber
Iron
9
new imperialism
Religious war waged by Muslim religious leaders against other religions
late 19th century drive, European countries to have vast political empires
Set of radical reforms to make the Ottoman's on a western European model
Religious war waged by Europeans in the Middle East to bring Christianity
10
migration chain
movement of people in which an individual leads the way & others follow
movement of the stars in a continuous chain of life throughout the universe
The movement of one generation to another
A movement of goods from one place to place usually using trains
11
What sparked the Ottoman janissary revolt of 1826?
D) The sultan ordered the disbanding of the janissaries.
B) The government put pork into rations.
C) The janissaries were ordered to drill in European style.
A) A janissary had been stoned for desertion.
12
In the Americas, the Seven Years' War was a border dispute between the colonies of what two countries?
England and Prussia
Britain and France
Portugal and the Netherlands
Spain and Portugal
13
The Napoleonic Code asserted two main principles of the revolution, the legal equality of all male citizens and what?
Absolute protection of wealth and property
A strong military
Universal suffrage
Equality of women
14
49. Between 1750 and 1900, what was the Asian population trend?
C) It was far outpaced by that of Africa.
B) It mirrored population growth in Europe.
D) There was little overall change.
A) There was a dramatic decline.
15
Why was Great Britain motivated to engage in imperialism in the 1870s?
It wanted to civilize the Africans more than it did the Indians.
Its lead in industrial domination was declining.
Its soaring population had created a massive shortage of jobs at home.
It had developed no new colonies since the loss of its N. American colonies
16
What 2 countries colonized most of Central and South America?
Spain and England
Europe and Africa
England and France
Spain and Portugal
17
On August 27, 1789, the National Assembly issued a statement of principles known as which of the following?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Great Charter
The Articles of Principles
The Social Contract
18
What Western political philosophy led some natives to resist colonial rule?
A) Nationalism
C) Objectivism
D) Neoclassicism
B) Skepticism
19
Which of the following describes the early life of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty?
He was a penniless orphan.
He was the son of a disgraced noble
He was a merchant's son
He was the son of a Mongol general
20
Economically, British abolitionists sought to replace the African slave trade with trade in which of the following?
Coffee and cotton
Wheat and barley
Gold and Silver
Tropical products
21
Why did Nepolean create a new type of Nobility?
Needed less power
That is what rulers do
Reward friends and allies
Needed more generals for his army
22
Why was the Great Wall built by the Ming?
So a road could be built on top of it
To protect against the Mongol threat
To mark the empire's northern boundary
To prevent an invasion from Tibet
23
Afrikaners
Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa
A nice type of blanket that is often on grandmother’s couches
Decedents of British settlers in Afghanistan
Nothing it is a made up word, but then again all words are made up
24
Which of the following was part of Ottoman reforms, in 1876, designed to remake the empire on a western European model
B) Tanzimat
D) Dervishme
A) Tantuni
C) Janissary
25
What was the Middle Passage?
The shipping lane from the American colonies to Europe
The voyage of African slaves to the Americas
The transfer of slaves from ship to market
The transfer of slaves from inland locations to coastal cities
26
How was Egypt brought under English control?
through the use of debt and finances
Through war and conquest
It was never not a part of England
It was take by the Ottomans and the English came in a liberated Egypt
27
45. In August 1791, who revolted on the island of Saint-Domingue? (Hati)
Spanish Lanorers
All people of color
Free people of color
Slaves
28
Young Turks
A popular band in the late 19th century that lead to modern music culture.
Turkish rebels bringing the nation in line with Islamic religious values
English patriots worked to bring more democratic elements to England.
Fervent patriots seized power in 1908 and paved the way for modern Turkey
29
What ideology spread to the Mongols in 1577?
Tibetan Buddhism
Confucianism
Red Turban teachings
Christianity
30
What missionary group attempted to introduce Roman Catholicism into Ethiopia in the sixteenth century?
Franciscans
Jesuits
Benedictines
Dominicans
31
What was the Great Fear?
campaign by parish priests to instill a greater fear of God in the people
B) An uprising of the urban poor
A) Landlords' use of vagabonds to seek vengeance on unruly peasants
C) Peasant uprisings in the countryside
32
Which European nation monopolized the slave trade until about 1600?
England
Venice
Portugal
Spain
33
palm oil
West African product used to make soap; ecouraged by the British to grow
West African plant that is pretty and people all over the world wanted it
West African plant, now extinct, that would be the solution to oil crisis.
A west African product that was used to make lamp fuel and better gasoline.
34
By the late eighteenth century, European law recognized only what kinds of people as slaves?
Africans or people of African descent
Eastern Europeans born to illiterate parents
People who could not pay their debts
Anyone not born into the elite, noble class
35
What European country first colonized the Congo?
Germany
France
Belgium
England
36
Named by Zhu Yuanzhang, what does Ming mean?
Bright
Flawless
Heavenly
Beautiful
37
Why did Louis XVI call the Estaes Genral into session?
He wanted a new constitution for France
He wanted to form a new government that was in line with the French Rev.
He wanted to change the tax code to tax the nobility and clergy
It was a yearly call. They made all the laws the king just aproved them.
38
Who was the focus of the Reign of Terror?
Reporters
Nobility
Pesants
Clergy
39
What was the main ecconomic goal of European imperialists in Africa?
To develop new settlements to be populated by working-class Europeans
To encourage sustainable indigenous industrial development
To connect Africa to world markets that would be profitable for Europe
To develop markets for industrial goods in the European colonies
40
As a result of the growth of trade, Europeans made massive foreign investments
in Russia
B) in its colonies in Asia and Africa.
in other European countries, the US, and its old dominions like Canada
A) in Ireland and South Africa.
41
Scholars have determined that the transatlantic slave trade had what effect on African societies?
It led to wars that destabilized the political structure of many states
It led to technological development because of population decline.
It laid the foundation for European colonies.
It hastened the Christianization of the sub-Sahara.
42
What was the main factor that lead to the unification of Italy and Germany?
Young Turks
They have always been one country.
Nationalism
Communists
43
Rudyard Kipling wrote his poem “The White Man's Burden” in response to which of the following?
The British victory in the Anglo-Boer War
America's seizure of the Philippines
America's sponsorship of the freed slaves' colony of Liberia
The British crown's takeover of India
44
How were chattel slaves viewed?
They were commodities that were considered subhuman property.
Usually, they were slaves who had status and power
Chattel slaves had the right to inherit land and wealth
Most were considered to be members of the owner's family
45
What did both Britain and France do as a result of the Seven Years' War?
B) Dominated European politics
C) Began to focus more on Asia
D) Raised taxes
A) Lost all their colonies
46
Orthodox form of Christianity from Egypt practiced in Ethiopia.
Puritanism
Protestantism
Roman Catholic
Coptic Christianity
47
How was the slave army of the Ottomans destroied finally?
The English army invaded
it stands today as the oldest army in the world
It was destroyed by the Sulton using artillery
it modernized and moved to a volenteer army
48
What brought Senegambia into frequent contact with Europeans?
The slave trade
Christian missionaries
The ivory trade
European explorers
49
What is Nepolean's down fall?
Invading Russia
Invading England
Invading Spain
Invading Poland
50
The white elites of Saint-Domingue were angered when the National Assembly Fr granted political rights to whom in 1791?
Native Americans
Slaves
Women
Free people of color
51
By 1880, what united western and central Sudan?
Islam
The palm oil trade
The slave trade
European Colonialism
52
What was the Estates General?
C) The French legislative assembly
B) A meeting of the men who held large estates
D) An assembly of commoners held in Paris every five years
A) The annual assembly of nobility
53
What was the oba in Benin?
King
Sage
Chief merchant
Priest
54
In the Tennis Court Oath, the delegates of the 3rd estate pledged to not disband until they had
C) repealed all taxes.
A) written a new constitution.
B) secured the right to vote for all Frenchmen.
D) forced Louis XVI to abdicate.
55
What was the Bastille?
B) A royal prison
C) A royal palace
D) A royal administrative building
A) A royal castle
56
During the great migration of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the vast majority of migrants were
A) from China and South Asia.
C) African slaves.
D) Jews from Eastern Europe.
B) from Europe.
57
What did Louis XVI do in response to the demands of the National Assembly?
A) Granted all of its requests
C) Seized land from all the nobles
D) Called an army toward the capital to bring the delegates under control
B) Abdicated in favor of his son
58
By the nineteenth century, the Ottoman janissary corps had been transformed into
A) a corrupt and privileged hereditary elite.
C) a slave army of Armenians.
B) elite, innovative infantry units.
D) Shi'a converts.
59
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who did the elite of Mali and Benin import to be slaves?
Slavic women
Songhai warriors
Berber women
Yoruba children
60
Why did European kings initially welcome the French Revolution?
They hoped that it would scare their peasants.
It weakened France, which they saw as a competing power.
They had hopes for liberal reforms.
They hoped it would spread to England and weaken it.
61
King Leopold II became notorious for which of the following?
The exploitation of Africans in the Congo
His playboy lifestyle
His micromanagement of Bew
The lengths he would go to acquire ivory
62
What did eighteenth-century reformers believe about the rule of monarchs?
That it should be constrained by the will of the people
That it could be limitless as long as it was benevolent
That it should be open to debates among the wealthy
That it should be completely abolished in favor of democracy
63
What was one of the results of the increase in population and urbanization during the eighteenth century?
There were more job opportunities than ever before.
Common people were freed from paying taxes and fees.
Economic freedoms increased, but more legal restrictions were introduced.
Inflation increased and city people couldn't afford food and rent.
64
48. The European migrant was most often
B) an urban, skilled factory worker.
C) a small peasant landowner or rural craftsman.
A) a middle-class professional.
D) the poorest rural, landless peasant.
65
What is the 3rd Estate?
Newspapers
Pesants
Nobility
Clergy
66
What was the primary religion of Ethiopia?
Judaism
Coptic Christianity
Islam
Byzantine Christianity
67
What is the Reign of Terror?
The rise of Nepoleon to power in France
a really scary time in the American Revolution
During French Revolution when thousands were exicuted on charges 'treason'
a great album
68
In the stateless societies of Senegambia, which of the following contributed to community loyalty and law enforcement?
Strong, patriarchal clans
Gender-specific roles
Communitywide assemblies
Age-grade systems
69
50. In America and Australia in the 1880s, “great white walls” were actually what?
B) Discriminatory laws against Asian migrants
A) Physical walls surrounding Asian settlements
D) Factory dormitories to keep Asian and white workers apart
C) Laws allowing Asian labor on plantations

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