Question 1

Please define the following key terms.
-"Black Hole of Calcutta"

Accepted Answer

The Black Hole of Calcutta refers to a d

Question 2

Mercantilist policy makers sought to establish a favorable balance of trade.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Please define the following key terms.
-Ptolemy's Geography

Accepted Answer

The answer of Please define the following key terms.
-Ptolemy's Geography...

Question 4

Please define the following key terms.
-Treaty of Tordesillas

Accepted Answer

The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreeme

Question 5

Which of these factors contributed to the decline of the Ming dynasty?

Accepted Answer

A) Pressure by the English 
B) A series of weak rulers 
C) Pressure by the Dutch 
D) Religious strife 
E) Climate change 
A) Pressure by the English 
B) A series of weak rulers 
C) Pressure by the Dutch 
D) Religious strife 
E) Climate change

Question 6

Please define the following key terms.
-Prince Henry the Navigator

Accepted Answer

Prince Henry the Navigator was a Portugu

Question 7

Please define the following key terms.
-Ferdinand Magellan

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480 – April 27,

Question 8

Why did the slave trade come to rely on the peoples of West Africa? What were the consequences for all parties involved?

Accepted Answer

The slave trade came to rely on the peop

Question 9

In what part of Southeast Asia did the Spanish establish themselves?

Accepted Answer

A) Siam 
B) The Philippines 
C) Vietnam 
D) Java 
E) Cambodia 
A) Siam 
B) The Philippines 
C) Vietnam 
D) Java 
E) Cambodia

Question 10

Please define the following key terms.
-"sugar factories"

Accepted Answer

Sugar factories play a crucial role in t

Question 11

Please define the following key terms.
-Society of Friends

Accepted Answer

The Society of Friends, also known as Qu

Question 12

In the early fifteenth century, Portuguese fleets explored the western coast of Africa in search of

Accepted Answer

A) spices. 
B) gold. 
C) salt. 
D) tobacco. 
E) silk. 
A) spices. 
B) gold. 
C) salt. 
D) tobacco. 
E) silk.

Question 13

Which city was the financial center of seventeenth-century Europe?

Accepted Answer

A) Paris 
B) London 
C) Rome 
D) Vienna 
E) Amsterdam 
A) Paris 
B) London 
C) Rome 
D) Vienna 
E) Amsterdam

Question 14

What role did disease play in facilitating the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas? In your opinion, would these conquests have been possible without epidemics that swept through the Americas in the wake of European settlement?

Accepted Answer

Disease played a significant role in fac

Question 15

Why did Catholic Christianity fail to take root in China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

Accepted Answer

A) Opposition from Jesuit missionaries 
B) Opposition from Protestant missionaries 
C) Disagreement among religious orders and suppression by Chinese authorities 
D) Chinese anti-religious attitudes 
E) Competition from Hindu missionaries 
A) Opposition from Jesuit missionaries 
B) Opposition from Protestant missionaries 
C) Disagreement among religious orders and suppression by Chinese authorities 
D) Chinese anti-religious attitudes 
E) Competition from Hindu missionaries

Question 16

Which event reopened the doors between Europe and east Asia in the thirteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A) The Black Death 
B) The Reformation 
C) The fall of the Ottomans 
D) Muslim conquests 
E) Mongol conquests 
A) The Black Death 
B) The Reformation 
C) The fall of the Ottomans 
D) Muslim conquests 
E) Mongol conquests

Question 17

The Dutch in Southeast Asia were supplanted by the Portuguese.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Please define the following key terms.
-Afonso de Albuquerque

Accepted Answer

Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portuguese n

Question 19

What developments helped facilitate European expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Accepted Answer

Several developments helped facilitate E

Question 20

Which major European disease caused high rates of mortality among the natives of the New World?

Accepted Answer

A) Syphilis 
B) Yellow fever 
C) Smallpox 
D) Scurvy 
E) Avian flu 
A) Syphilis 
B) Yellow fever 
C) Smallpox 
D) Scurvy 
E) Avian flu

Exam 14: Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

Please define the following key terms. -"Black Hole of Calcutta"

Mercantilist policy makers sought to establish a favorable balance of trade.

Please define the following key terms. -Ptolemy's Geography

Please define the following key terms. -Treaty of Tordesillas

Which of these factors contributed to the decline of the Ming dynasty?

Please define the following key terms. -Prince Henry the Navigator

Please define the following key terms. -Ferdinand Magellan

Why did the slave trade come to rely on the peoples of West Africa? What were the consequences for all parties involved?

In what part of Southeast Asia did the Spanish establish themselves?

Please define the following key terms. -"sugar factories"

Please define the following key terms. -Society of Friends

In the early fifteenth century, Portuguese fleets explored the western coast of Africa in search of

Which city was the financial center of seventeenth-century Europe?

What role did disease play in facilitating the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas? In your opinion, would these conquests have been possible without epidemics that swept through the Americas in the wake of European settlement?

Why did Catholic Christianity fail to take root in China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

Which event reopened the doors between Europe and east Asia in the thirteenth century?

The Dutch in Southeast Asia were supplanted by the Portuguese.

Please define the following key terms. -Afonso de Albuquerque

What developments helped facilitate European expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Which major European disease caused high rates of mortality among the natives of the New World?

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

The Roman Empire.

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.

Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871–1894.

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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