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1. What aspect of the 1688 Glorious Revolution in England was unique?

It began as a popular uprising among the peasant and farmer class.At the end, universal male suffrage was ensured by the signing of the Bill of Rights.It involved very little violence.It reinstated an oppressive regime, turning the clock back on reforms.

2. Which of the following is NOT an accurate representation of Russian expansion between 1450 and 1800?

Russian territory spread as far as northern California.Russia succeeded in taking control of a warm water port.The Ottoman Empire’s weakness facilitated Russia’s successful expansion.Mongol hordes kept Russia engaged on its southern border, slowing expansion in that direction.

3. Which of the following was the first worldwide war?

The CrusadesSeven Years’ WarWar of RosesHundred Years’ War

4. The mercantilism that arose in sixteenth-century Europe

encouraged importation of foreign goodsslowed European colonial pursuitsdid not affect empires and populations outside Europesparked further rivalries among European nations

5. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, posted in 1517, were arguments pertaining to

issues of taxation plaguing the German governmenthis frustrations with church institutions and practicesthe heliocentric model of the solar system advanced by Galileocriticisms of Albrecht Dürer and the naturalist movement in art

6. The Jewish population of Spain fled to which regions during the Spanish Inquisition?

The Ottoman EmpireAll of the aboveThe AmericasThe Netherlands

7. What European nation established the largest land-based empire by the mid-eighteenth century?

IndiaGreat BritainRussiaFrance

8. The development and application of the scientific method was a critical step during the Scientific Revolution because

it validated previous approaches by using pure reasonof none of the aboveit required experimental or mathematical proof, rather than just reason, for validation and acceptanceit allowed European scientists to follow a common approach or convention with scientists in China and Middle East

9. Which two groups are depicted in the map above, circa 1560?

The Holy Roman Empire and Napoleonic France, after the French RevolutionRoman Catholic and Orthodox Christian groups, after the Great SchismThe Holy Roman Empire and France, after the signing of the Peace of WestphaliaRoman Catholic and Protestant groups, during the Protestant Reformation

10. Which of the following is a characteristic shared by the Russian Empire and Ming China?

They imposed new religions on their respective empires.They improved the position of women in the period 1450–1750.They successfully expelled the Mongols from their lands.They established policies in response to the Mongol presence in central Asia.

11. Introduction of new crops from the Americas to China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries caused

the Chinese to abandon traditional foodswidespread adoption of the European three-field systemlarge-scale immigration from regions where food sources were less availablea rapid increase in population due to better nutrition “According to this foundation of reciprocal Amity, and a general Amnesty, all and every one of the Electors of the sacred Roman Empire, the Princes and States (therein comprehending the Nobility, which depend immediately on the Empire) their Vassals, Subjects, Citizens, Inhabitants (to whom on the account of the Bohemian or German Troubles or Alliances, contracted here and there, might have been done by the one Party or the other, any Prejudice or Damage in any manner, or under what pretence soever, as well in their Lordships, their fiefs, Underfiefs, Allodations, as in their Dignitys, Immunitys, Rights and Privileges) shall be fully re-establish’d on the one side and the other, in the Ecclesiastick or Laick State, which they enjoy’d, or could lawfully enjoy, notwithstanding any Alterations, which have been made in the mean time to the contrary.”

12. Which of the following is a unique characteristic of Spanish and British colonization of the Americas?

Contact with Native Americans introduced Europe to a new form of writing.Crops from the Americas changed commerce and European economies.Europeans benefited more from contact with the Americas than the Americas benefited from contact with Europeans.European colonizers succeeded in supplanting their cultures into the New World.

13. In The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued all of the following EXCEPT

living according to religious principles is the essence of freedomlegislative power belongs to the peopleall men are inherently equalin a rational society, individuals subject themselves to the rule of law

14. This quotation from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 establishes

the right of German princes to control their lands and follow the Christian denomination of their choosingFrance’s right to German territories, as supported by the feudal structure of the Catholic Churchthat peace will only be temporary while social problems in Bohemia and Germany are worked out with the help of the Churchthe right of leaders in the Holy Roman Empire to promote nobles within the Church without fear of papal recrimination

15. English maritime exploration was largely privately financed at first because

the Church of England would not permit the monarchy to undertake explorationthe English monarchy did not want to appear to be in conflict with the Frenchexplorers sought to make claims for themselves without informing the Crownthe monarchy lacked comparable resources to Spain’s or Portugal’s

16. Global circulation of what metal from the Americas spurred commercialization and the creation of a global economy?

GoldSilverNickelCopper

17. What were the major trading products produced by fifteenth-century China?

Tea, porcelain, and silkPorcelain, silk, and teaPaper, porcelain, and silkTea, paper, and porcelain

18. The greatest difference between the philosophies of Divine Right of Kings in Europe and Mandate of Heaven in Zhou China is

Divine Right of Kings stated that a ruler would be given the authority to rule only as long as he pleased heaventhe Mandate of Heaven stated that a ruler was chosen by the divinethe Mandate of Heaven stated a ruler would only be given the authority to rule as long as he pleased heavenDivine Right of Kings stated that a ruler was chosen by the divine

19. The Spanish Inquisition, as established by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1481, was primarily intended to

identify and destroy anyone practicing witchcraft in Spanish territoriescontrol the population at large using surprise and fear as its chief weaponsguarantee Catholic orthodoxy among converts from Judaism and Islaminvestigate possible avenues of exploration to increase the wealth of the Church

20. Between the sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, the Americas had established economic links to all of the following EXCEPT

IndiaAfricaSouth East AsiaEurope

21. The greatest number of deaths during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Incan Empires can be attributed to

firearms used by conquistadorsdiseases such as smallpox which coincided with Spanish arrivalthe overwhelming numerical superiority of Spanish forces in battlehuman sacrifices performed to appease conquistadors

22. Which of the following became staple crops in parts of Africa and Asia due to the impact of the Columbian Exchange?

Sugar and tobaccoOkra and riceMaize and maniocMint and bananas

23. Which of the following correctly pairs the first successful French settlement in the Americas with the explorer who settled it?

Charlesfort on Parris Island, Jacques CartierNova Gallia, Giovanni da VeranzanoQuebec City, Samuel de ChamplainSaint-Domingue, Henri de Feynes

24. After 1450, international trade was increasingly controlled by

The WestThe OttomansChinaJapan

25. Commercial and cultural interaction between Japan and the West was instigated in

the fifteenth century by Spanish explorers dispatched by Ferdinand and Isabellathe sixteenth century by Jesuit missionaries from Portugalthe thirteenth century by Italian explorer Marco Polothe nineteenth century by American sailors headed west from California

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