Question 1

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Amerindians

Accepted Answer

Amerindians, also known as Native Americ

Question 2

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. How did the slave trade operate? Why had the demand for slaves grown so large by the eighteenth century, and what were the consequences of that demand and the slave trade itself?

Accepted Answer

The slave trade operated through a compl

Question 3

Which of the following had, by the eighteenth century, captured at least 50 percent of the slave trade?

Accepted Answer

A) France 
B) Britain 
C) Portugal 
D) The Netherlands 
E) Spain 
A) France 
B) Britain 
C) Portugal 
D) The Netherlands 
E) Spain

Question 4

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 hidalgos

Accepted Answer

Hidalgos were a social class in Spain du

Question 5

Between 1500 and 1600, the native population of the New World may have dropped from twenty million to

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A) two million. 
B) five million. 
C) eight million. 
D) twelve million. 
E) none of the above 
A) two million. 
B) five million. 
C) eight million. 
D) twelve million. 
E) none of the above

Question 6

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 price revolution

Accepted Answer

The price revolution refers to a period

Question 7

Copyhold refers to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A) apprentice contracts 
B) shopkeepers' accounts 
C) shipping inventories 
D) mining 
E) land tenure 
A) apprentice contracts 
B) shopkeepers' accounts 
C) shipping inventories 
D) mining 
E) land tenure

Question 8

Bartolomé de Las Casas attacked the view on "natural slaves" articulated by which ancient intellectual?

Accepted Answer

A) Cicero 
B) Plato 
C) Marcus Aurelius 
D) Aristotle 
E) Polybius 
A) Cicero 
B) Plato 
C) Marcus Aurelius 
D) Aristotle 
E) Polybius

Question 9

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 capitalism

Accepted Answer

Capitalism is an economic system in whic

Question 10

Within ten years of Columbus's arrival in the New World, the Portuguese had explored as far as

Accepted Answer

A) the Cape Verdi Islands. 
B) the Gold Coast of Africa. 
C) the mouth of the Congo River. 
D) the southern tip of Africa. 
E) India via the Cape of Good Hope. 
A) the Cape Verdi Islands. 
B) the Gold Coast of Africa. 
C) the mouth of the Congo River. 
D) the southern tip of Africa. 
E) India via the Cape of Good Hope.

Question 11

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 carnival

Accepted Answer

Carnival:

Who?
Carnival is celebrated b

Question 12

The two outstanding successes of Dutch commerce in the seventeenth century were

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A) domination of the wool trade with England and the spice trade with the East Indies. 
B) the spice trade with the East Indies and the trade in sugar from the West Indies. 
C) domination of the Baltic grain trade and the spice trade with the East Indies. 
D) the spice trade from the East Indies and export products from domestic cottage industries. 
E) the trade in sugar from the West Indies and domination of the Baltic grain trade. 
A) domination of the wool trade with England and the spice trade with the East Indies. 
B) the spice trade with the East Indies and the trade in sugar from the West Indies. 
C) domination of the Baltic grain trade and the spice trade with the East Indies. 
D) the spice trade from the East Indies and export products from domestic cottage industries. 
E) the trade in sugar from the West Indies and domination of the Baltic grain trade.

Question 13

The significant expansion of trade and commerce in the early modern period was fueled by

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A) the price revolution. 
B) the growth in population. 
C) higher incomes for merchants, landlords, and some peasants. 
D) the growth of the state. 
E) all of the above 
A) the price revolution. 
B) the growth in population. 
C) higher incomes for merchants, landlords, and some peasants. 
D) the growth of the state. 
E) all of the above

Question 14

Emerging European global hegemony

Accepted Answer

A) decimated the population of the New World. 
B) moved large numbers of Africans to the New World. 
C) brought weapons and a new staple crop, manioc, to Africa. 
D) contributed to a major African influence on culture, society, and politics. 
E) all of the above 
A) decimated the population of the New World. 
B) moved large numbers of Africans to the New World. 
C) brought weapons and a new staple crop, manioc, to Africa. 
D) contributed to a major African influence on culture, society, and politics. 
E) all of the above

Question 15

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 enclosure

Accepted Answer

Enclosure is a term used to describe a p

Question 16

Between 1450 to 1750, Western Europe entered a period of economic expansion that

Accepted Answer

A) resumed the growth pattern of the High Middle Ages and transformed it. 
B) had little impact on people's values. 
C) immediately improved the standard of living for the average person. 
D) further contracted the supply of money. 
E) restored the old feudal system. 
A) resumed the growth pattern of the High Middle Ages and transformed it. 
B) had little impact on people's values. 
C) immediately improved the standard of living for the average person. 
D) further contracted the supply of money. 
E) restored the old feudal system.

Question 17

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 skepticism

Accepted Answer

Skepticism is the attitude of doubting o

Question 18

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 copyhold

Accepted Answer

Copyhold refers to a form of customary l

Question 19

A theme common to the carnival, the Feast of Fools and the charivari was

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A) a rare celebration of abundance. 
B) a world or situation turned upside down. 
C) mockery of novelty. 
D) dark supernatural forces. 
E) mockery of the church. 
A) a rare celebration of abundance. 
B) a world or situation turned upside down. 
C) mockery of novelty. 
D) dark supernatural forces. 
E) mockery of the church.

Question 20

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).   
 Locate and label the most urbanized area of Europe during the Renaissance; locate and label the most urbanized area of Europe during the seventeenth century.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Instructions: Please use this outline map of...

Exam 15: European Expansion Economic and Social Transformations

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Amerindians

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. How did the slave trade operate? Why had the demand for slaves grown so large by the eighteenth century, and what were the consequences of that demand and the slave trade itself?

Which of the following had, by the eighteenth century, captured at least 50 percent of the slave trade?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? hidalgos

Between 1500 and 1600, the native population of the New World may have dropped from twenty million to

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? price revolution

Copyhold refers to which of the following?

Bartolomé de Las Casas attacked the view on "natural slaves" articulated by which ancient intellectual?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? capitalism

Within ten years of Columbus's arrival in the New World, the Portuguese had explored as far as

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? carnival

The two outstanding successes of Dutch commerce in the seventeenth century were

The significant expansion of trade and commerce in the early modern period was fueled by

Emerging European global hegemony

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? enclosure

Between 1450 to 1750, Western Europe entered a period of economic expansion that

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? skepticism

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? copyhold

A theme common to the carnival, the Feast of Fools and the charivari was

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Locate and label the most urbanized area of Europe during the Renaissance; locate and label the most urbanized area of Europe during the seventeenth century.

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual

The Greek City-State Democratic Politics

Greek Thought From Myth to Reason

The Hellenistic Age Cultural Diffusion

The Roman Republic City-State to World Empire

The Roman Empire a World-State

Early Christianity a World Religion

The Heirs of Rome Byzantium Islam and Latin Christendom

The High Middle Ages Vitality and Enewal

The Flowering of Medieval Culture the Christian Synthesis

The Late Middle Ages Crisis and Dissolution

The Renaissance Transition to the Modern Age

The Reformation the Shattering of Christian Unity

The Rise of Sovereignty Transition to the Modern State

The Scientific Revolution the Universe Seen As a Mechanism

The Age of Enlightenment Reason and Reform

The French Revolution the Affirmation of Liberty and Equality

The Industrial Revolution the Great Transformation

Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century

Revolution and Counterrevolution 1815-1848

Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Realism and Social Criticism

The Surge of Nationalism From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism

The Industrial West Responses to Modernization

Imperialism Western Global Dominance

Modern Consciousness New Views of Nature Human Nature and the Arts

World War I the West in Despair

An Era of Totalitarianism

Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism

World War II Western Civilization in the Balance

Europe After World War II Recovery and Realignment 1945-1989

The Troubled Present

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