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37 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following statements about Spain's conquests in the new world is NOT true |
Spanish settlers first colonized the pacific coast of South America |
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Spain's most valuable exports from the Americas in the 16th century were |
Silver and gold |
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The Netherlands, France, and England all surpassed Spain and Portugal as economic and political powers by the end of the 16th century..who was not? |
Italy |
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Columbus made ___ voyages to the New world |
4 |
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Herman cortex overthrew |
The Aztec empire |
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Francisco Pizarro murdered |
The Inca emperor |
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This person believed in predestination and set up a theocracy in Switzerland |
John Calvin |
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In the 1500s and early 1600s, the Netherlands agitated for |
independence |
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Won a war with spain |
Queen Elizabeth of England |
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The dutch republic in the 17th century developed |
innovative methods of crop rotation that boasted agricultural output |
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This country dominated northern European shipping in the 17th century |
The netherlands |
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Louis the XIV's economic policies included |
A policy of mercantilism |
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During the 18th century france |
Lost its holdings in north america |
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Britain gained supremacy in world trade in part by |
Having a united national market |
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During its period of ascendancy in world trade, britain did all of the following except |
Keep separate markets with separate regulations and taxes within britain |
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Which of the following remained a catholic country throughout the reformation and counter reformation |
Spain |
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The concept of a nation state does NOT include which of the following |
A shared sense of unity with surrounding states |
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Nation-state that was governed by a coalition of businessmen |
The Netherlands |
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The Russian state did not begin to form until it over threw the |
Mongol domination |
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Made major reforms in administration that made his bureaucracy more efficient |
Peter the great |
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The authority of the ottoman empire was undermined in the 1500s in part because of |
Open trade with the English and the dutch |
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Head of the mughal empire |
Akbar, the ruler of India |
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Fought with Japan during the last decade of the 16th century |
The ming dynasty |
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Conversion to Christianity was most common among what group in Japan |
The elite |
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Demographers are least likely to do the following |
Do an in depth study of a single individual |
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Which of the following did NOT move from the old world to the new world in the Columbian exchange |
Potatoes |
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Australia was initially populated by |
Prisoners |
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Saw their population decrease by more than half as a result of interactions with Europeans |
The Maori |
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Who possessed the most colonies along the Atlantic coast of north America |
The english |
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In which type of agricultural production were slaves most likely to receive the worst treatment |
Sugar |
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The slave trade was largely dependent on |
The activities of native African businessmem |
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NOT a reason that Europeans didn't venture into the interior of Africa |
Racist fears concerning Africans |
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The ottoman empire allowed the practice of |
Christianity in the Balkans |
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Akbar did not ban the use of |
Urdu language |
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The mongols who invaded Persia in the thirteenth century |
Massacred whole populations of cities |
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Negotiated a border treaty with Russia |
The qing dynasty |
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Eurasian empires existing from 1300 to 1700 were linked by |
overland trade routes |