WORLD HISTORY

CONVERGENCE,DIVERGENCE,AND GLOBAL ENLIGHTENMENTS

1. What factor led the English to attempt to kill off entire Native American peoples?

2. The state that Europeans came to eye like greedy creditors around a rich man’s deathbed was the _______ Empire.

3. What practice was key to the success of the Mughals in ruling over India?

4. What Old World product became widely popular in Eurasia only once it was cultivated in the New World?

5. One of the most effective forms of resistance that slaves employed against their masters was

6. What occurred virtually every time Natives and Europeans came into contact?

7. The Treaty of Westphalia of 1648

8. For most people, the religious revival of the eighteenth century focused on

9. Ignatius Loyola was a

10. The French philosopher Voltaire was attracted to Confucianism because he

11. Which of the following European land empires expanded its territory most aggressively in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?

12. By 1800, the number of African slaves that had been imported to the Americas was about _______ million.

13. What common trend occurred in most regions from the mid sixteenth century to the late seventeenth century?

14. Although Chinese emperors were theoretically unlimited in their authority, during the reign of the emperor Zhengde his administration

15. The Americas didn’t provide Europeans with added

16. Which of the following best explains the lack of cholera outbreaks in Japan?

17. What was the main motivating factor for European maritime expansion in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?

18. Peter the Great’s decision to move the capital of Russia to St. Petersburg reflects the shift of power in Europe to the

19. What was a key discovery during the early sixteenth century that made regular trade possible across the Atlantic Ocean?

20. Religious reform in Mongolia under Altan Khan was guided by

FRUSTRATIONS OF PROGRESS;CHAOSAND COMPLEXITY

1. Which of the following did reformers first try to end in the slave industry?

2. The term quantum mechanics refers to the study of

3. The greatest extension of the frontier of food production in the 1800s occurred in what areas?

4. Quinine was essential for the expansion of imperial powers because of its

5. One of the consequences of rapid urbanization and the creation of enormous cities has been

6. Which of the following was not an innovation that came about due to militarization in the 1800s?

7. Many of Henri Bergson’s followers were made hopeful by his writings because he argued that

8. Comte de Gobineau, a French anthropologist, argued that human beings