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A practice quiz for the 1CC3 final - focuses on what might appear on the "identify and state significance" section

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1CC3 Rise of Empires Quiz

Frage 1 von 34

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Select the best definition for what Weaver refers to as "a choke point city"

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Cities that were great once but collapsed quickly

  • Important cities with avenues of communication and trade that endured for centuries

  • Important cities with huge amounts of natural resources that allowed an empire to flourish

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Frage 2 von 34

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What best describes the fiscal military state?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • A state with an enormous military

  • The ability of people to organize resources for military purposes

  • A state with no other administrative goals other than to form a large, powerful military

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Frage 3 von 34

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How are globalization and global integration different?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Globalization came before global integration

  • There is no difference, they are synonymous

  • Global integration is slower moving, moved by small sailing ships, animal caravans - it doesn’t have much depth of penetration

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Frage 4 von 34

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How did Constantinople become a choke point city?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • There were no enemies for thousands of miles away from the city

  • It was a defensive site in a perfect location

  • Constantine paid an enormous sum of money to have a moat dug around it

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Frage 5 von 34

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What was most significant to the success of the Byzantine Empire?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • They had mercenaries, practiced cunning diplomacy, and were equipped with spies

  • They spread the Greek language throughout their empire

  • Missionaries spread the Christian religion of the Byzantine Empire

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Frage 6 von 34

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What was the Reconquista?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The beginning of conflict between the Christians and Muslims - it is where myths about conquering developed, where the idea that a subject group must adhere to their faith

  • The beginning of conflict between the Christians and Jews - it is where myths about conquering developed, where the idea that a subject group must adhere to their faith

  • The beginning of conflict between the Shia and Sunni - it is where myths about conquering developed, where the idea that a subject group must adhere to their faith

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Frage 7 von 34

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What is the Pirenne thesis?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Conquests are based on conjecture

  • Islamic territories cut off Europe and forced trade and artisan development in northern Europe because Muslims cut off supply of papyrus, spices, luxury fabrics, gold coins

  • Islamic territories cut off Europe and forced trade and artisan development in northern Europe because Muslims cut off supply of papyrus, spices, luxury fabrics, gold coins - however this theory has been discounted

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Frage 8 von 34

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What did the Liber Abaci do?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Spread algebra and numbering system to Europe -this allowed from huge leaps in accounting and finance

  • Allowed the mongols to spread and conquer

  • Helped men translate Greek texts into Arabic

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Frage 9 von 34

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What did NOT contribute to the dissemination of Islam?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Arab/Islamic people traded over land – networks reached from the far north of Africa to the boundaries of modern China

  • Other empires were exhausted from constant battles, therefore they were weakened and vulnerable

  • Horses and camels allowed people to move quickly – allowed Islam to move quickly

  • Arab/ Islamic people had far superior weapons to any other group of people at this time

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Frage 10 von 34

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Who was Ala ud Din?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • A common person that was able to create a vast empire

  • A warrior prince that created a small empire and defeated Genghis Khan

  • A warrior prince that created a small empire and was defeated by Genghis Khan

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Frage 11 von 34

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What is Karkorum?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The capital of the Mongol empire

  • Genghis Khan's weapon of choice

  • A Chinese dynasty

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Frage 12 von 34

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What was NOT a result of the Black Plague?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Improvement of farming techniques + fall in the price of agriculture

  • Inflation lead to the peasants being happier

  • Social change – gave some influence and leverage to skilled labourers and farmers and less power to aristocrats

  • For the people who survived it meant a new concentration of wealth

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Frage 13 von 34

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Why is there a wool sack in the house of lords in England?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Serves as a reminder of the corruption of the wool trade

  • Serves of a reminder of the wealth accumulated through the trade of wool

  • It's comfy to sit on

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Frage 14 von 34

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Why is it significant that Venice was a thalassocracy?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • This meant trade without fear or favour - they controlled the Brenner Pass and thus the Aegean

  • This meant trade was a lot more dangerous - pirates were a constant threat to Venice

  • This meant constant quarrels about fishing rights and territories which almost caused a war

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Frage 15 von 34

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Why did the Star of David appear on an Ottoman war banner?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The ottomans wanted to create a Jewish empire

  • An indication that the ottomans wanted to declare war on the Jews

  • The ottomans were open to religious diversity if you paid your taxes

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Frage 16 von 34

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Who was Charles V?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • A Hapsburg

  • The builder of the Holy Roman Empire

  • A man from a great Swiss family

  • All of these answers are correct

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Frage 17 von 34

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What happens at the Battle of Lepanto (1571)

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Venice attacks Ottoman fleets and are defeated

  • Venice attacks Ottoman fleets and are successful in destroying the ottoman fleet

  • Venice attacks Ottoman fleets but the battle ends in a compromise

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Frage 18 von 34

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What is the Millet System?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The ottoman arrangement for dealing with Jews and Christians through their religious leaders

  • Genoas merchants pioneer shipping trade

  • Portuguese mariners discover the Atlantic islands and begin conquest of Guanche’s and set up sugar plantations

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Frage 19 von 34

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What is the significance of "the legacy in the east"

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The split between the roman catholic church and the eastern orthodox church

  • The re-conquest of Spain and the expulsion of the Jews who did not convert – eventually the expulsion of Muslims

  • The east contained some of the most powerful empires the world has ever seen

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Frage 20 von 34

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What was NOT significant/ a part of Spanish conquest in the Americas?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Spanish silver mined in South America had a dramatic effect on the money supply in Europe – too much money in circulation

  • The Spanish introduced European diseases to the indigenous killing large sums of their populations

  • The Spanish learned a great deal about sustaining crops from the indigenous

  • The Spaniards adopted some of the administrative practices of the Inca and the Aztec

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Frage 21 von 34

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What did NOT contribute to the Dutch forming such a successful empire?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • High productivity farming

  • Warhousing

  • By making few enemies to minimize the risk of war

  • A successful rebellion against the Hapsburg empire

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Frage 22 von 34

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Why were the VOC against colonialism?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • They didn't have enough people to establish colonies

  • It was inefficient and uneconomical

  • They were against anything the English were doing

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Frage 23 von 34

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What was NOT a Chinese invention?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Insurance

  • Gunpowder

  • Porcelain

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Frage 24 von 34

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According to "the Diamond Question", why, if China had the elements for long distance navigation and trade, did it not embark on global colonization? Select the most correct answer to this question

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • China stopped trying

  • There was a strong belief that the empire already had everything it needed

  • The Chinese at this time were very inverted

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Frage 25 von 34

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Peter the Great can be said to have...

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Brought Russia into deep debt

  • Modernized Russia

  • Expanded Russia as little as possible

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Frage 26 von 34

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Fear of invasion made the Russians want to...

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Expand

  • Make as many alliances as possible

  • Build huge fortresses to protect themselves

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Frage 27 von 34

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What is NOT a European concept of state government?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Administrative bureaucracy

  • Taxation

  • Local armies

  • Bribery

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Frage 28 von 34

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What was the third phase of the British empire in India?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The period when the company became a real agent trying to fashion a modern state in terms of public works and legal reform

  • Nabobs went to India to gain wealth

  • The trading phase

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Frage 29 von 34

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The law code in India was based off of...

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Marxism

  • Utilitarianism

  • The understanding that everyone was equal under the law

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Frage 30 von 34

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Was is NOT true about Braudel?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • He was opposed to daily news

  • He felt that by looking back and studying a broader time span, you become aware of strangeness and important changes

  • He focused on changes of food, climate, and culture instead of focusing on Kings and regimes

  • He was a Swiss historian

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Frage 31 von 34

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Which reading/ book does the following passage come from?

"First, the prospective settlement had to be placed where the land and climate were similar to those in some parts of Europe. Europeans and their commensal and parasitic comrades were not good at adapting to truly alien lands and climates, but there were very good at constructing new versions of Europe out of suitable real-estate. Second, the prospective colonies had to be in lands remote from the Old World so that there would be no or few predators or disease organisms adapted to preying on Europeans and their plants and animals".

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Vermeer's Hat - Brook

  • Ecological Imperialism - Crosby

  • The Great Land Rush - Weaver

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Frage 32 von 34

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What reading/ book does this passage come from? Consider the main themes of each reading we have covered and consider the significance.

"Along the threads ran all manners of people and goods, boats and carts, warriors and weapons. So too ran a lot of other things: animals and plants, pathogens and seeds, words and ideas. Movement along the web was not ordered according to anyone's wishes, but it was never random, for the only ways things like plants or ideas could move was by travelling in the company of those who moved, and those who moved did so in relation to needs and fears that followed patterns".

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Vermeer's Hat - Brooks

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond

  • Taming the Wild Field - Sunderland

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Frage 33 von 34

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What reading/ book does this passage come from? Consider the main themes of each reading we have covered and consider the significance.

"When they set out to dismember tribal land holdings, colonizers knew that they were assailing customary authority within indigenous communities and understood that they caused dissension. In fact, official policy in New Zealand and the United States leaned towards privatized title both to free land and to promote assimilation".

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Writing Histories - Perude

  • Ecological Imperialism - Crosby

  • The Great Land Rush - Weaver

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Frage 34 von 34

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Which reading/ book does the following passage come from? Consider the significance of this passage in relation to the main themes of this course.

"From beyond the Dniepr came the first Russian and foreign warriors and farmers to the new Russian steppe. They built homes there and as their power and numbers inevitably increases, they moved farther and farther south, and they did not stop until the Russian Black Wings were unfurled across the shores of the Black and Azov Seas, until the entire steppe from the Danube to Kremenchug became a great and flourishing Russian region".

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Vermeer's Hat - Brook

  • Taming the Wild Field - Sunderland

  • The Great Land Rush - Weaver

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