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| This Empire, starting with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, controlled the eastern Mediterranean Sea and placed heavy taxes on European merchants to use land-sea routes to Asia and Africa |
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| The Ottoman (Turkish) Empire |
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| In Japan, the daimyo were hereditary regional warlords who dominated various parts of Japan. |
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| Christianity originated with Jesus of Nazareth in this empire |
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| Christianity originated with Jesus of Nazareth in this empire |
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| In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached both India and Japan, thereby discovering a trade route to Asia by sailing westward |
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| The Western Europeans who pioneered overseas exploration and global expansion in the 15th century were |
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| The transatlantic exchange of goods, commodities, cash crops (chocolates, potatoes, wheat, grapes, etc.), and animals between the New World (Americas) and the Old World (Europe) is known as |
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| 1.In 1521, this man seriously challenged the Catholic Church, thereby sparking the Protestant Reformation: |
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| According to the Catholic religion, purgatory is |
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| A place of suffering that purifies the soul so it can enter heaven |
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| In the later Middle Ages in Europe, the Catholic Church practiced the sale of these to help one reach salvation and way to heaven |
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| Which European country became Protestant because the king wanted to divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn? |
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| In 1517, Martin Luther issued this document which was a set of propositions challenging the Catholic Church’s power to forgive sins and grant indulgences |
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| In the period between 1500 and 1650, Europe experienced |
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Religious fragmentation and wars
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| 1.This man, who came from humble beginnings, but possessed exceptional military skills, completed Japan’s unification by 1590, invaded Korea, and ordered the expulsion of Christian missionaries from Japan. |
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| In Japan, the daimyo were hereditary regional warlords who dominated various parts of Japan |
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| Under Tokugawa Japan (1603 – 1868), the samurai were at the bottom of the social hierarchy |
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| Which Christian missionaries (i.e. Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci) were most active and prevalent in both China and Japan, especially in the 1500s |
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| China’s scholar-bureaucrats, who immersed themselves into the study of Confucian classics under Ming and Qing dynasties, were known as |
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| 1.In 1644, the Manchus expanded from Manchuria to create a large Chinese Empire called the Qing “Pure” Empire. This expansion brought all of the following lands into China EXCEPT |
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| Kangxi, a man of extraordinary talent, intelligence and vigor, was the emperor of: |
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| 1.By 1800 Islamic preeminence in southern Asia had yielded to the Europeans, thereby creating global shift in wealth and power. |
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| All these were great Islamic Empires EXCEPT |
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| Between early 1500s and late 1700s, all of these Europeans set up trading posts and entered into rivalries over India EXCEPT |
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| Southeast Asian islands (Malayan, Indonesian, and Philippine archipelagos) were especially of interest to European traders and merchants because of their strategic location and useful natural harbors, but also because of the abundance of |
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| The austere and deeply puritanical brand of Islam |
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| 1.Which European nation began the Atlantic slave trade and what highly desired and profitable commodity in Europe drove them to do so? |
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| The voyage that transported slaves from Africa to the Americas was known as the: |
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| Between 1500 and 1800, West Central Africa served as a major source for slaves bound for the Americas. Which of the following was NOT one of the main West African regions where slaves were acquired |
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| Africans were involved in slave trade by selling other Africans to the Europeans for guns. Most Africans sold into slavery and shipped to the Americas were men |
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