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All of
the following statements about Ottoman expansion are true EXCEPT:
A. their geographical location gave them a
definite advantage for expansion.
B. after taking advantage of Byzantine
weakness, they established a base at Gallipoli, and then allied with the Serbs
and Bulgars to continue fighting the Byzantine Empire.
C.
after the Kurdish seizure of Constantinople in 1521, Ottoman support of the new
Kurdish ruler gave them greater control over Asia Minor.
D. as they established European settlements,
Turkish beys replaced local landlords, and became the only recipients of taxes
collected from the Slavic peasant population.
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Which of
the following statements is NOT an accurate characterization of the nature of
Ottoman governmental processes?
A. Originally, Ottoman rule was dominated by
tribal law and augmented by Muslim law.
B. The Ottoman Empire was influenced by
Byzantine and Persian rule.
C. The sultan ruled from the Topkapi with the
assistance of the Grand Vezirs, who were primarily the products of the
devshirme process.
D. The government refused to allow any
religion to be practiced in the empire except for Islam.
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Ottoman
religious policy:
A. applied Islamic law to everyone in the
empire.
B. required all Shi’ite Muslims to convert to
Sunni Islam.
C. was more tolerant of Hindu beliefs than
the Mughal Dynasty.
D. placed the members of each religious group
under a patriarch or grand rabbi, who served in an intermediary capacity in
governmental matters effecting his group.
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Safavid
Iran:
A. was a purely Persian society.
B. was strongly influenced by Turkish
elements within the society.
C. adopted Sunni Islam as its state religion.
D. was a thoroughly egalitarian society.
Question
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Mughal
decline was most probably NOT caused by the:
A. fall of the Safavid dynasty.
B. rise in local power and wealth.
C. return of Muslim strictness after the rule
of Shah Jahan ended.
D. effect of the European presence on the
subcontinent.
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The
British presence in India significantly began in 1616 when they:
A. successfully attacked Puna.
B. established their first factory at Delhi.
C. were granted the right to have their own
representative at the court in Agra.
D. forced the Mughals to provide them with
light weight textiles.
Question
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The
peasant revolt that brought down the preoccupied Ming Dynasty, and precipitated
the ascension to control of the Manchus, was led by the disgruntled postal
worker:
A. Yuan Shi Kai.
B. Li Zicheng.
C. Zheng Chenggong.
D. Koxinga.
Question
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The first
major ruler of the Qing Dynasty was:
A. Kangxi.
B. Hongwu.
C. Qianling.
D. Yongle.
Question
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Qianlong:
A. ended civil service corruption by
demanding his standards of permanence and by ordering the public executions of
a number of corrupt officials.
B. was the first emperor to have a French
concubine given to him by the Japanese emperor.
C. was a great soldier who was killed in
battle in Tibet.
D. was dissatisfied by Lord Macartney’s
behavior in China.
Question
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Which of
the following is accurate regarding of the effects of Qianlong’s trade policy
with England?
A. It showed Lord Macartney that he could not
continue to attack the Emperor.
B. It set the stage for a future of
harmonious trade relations between the two powers.
C. It showed the compromising nature of the
Chinese attitude.
D. It set the stage for a future of Chinese
degradation and decline.
Question
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As
manufacturing and commerce began to grow in Ming and Qing China:
A. the elite retained a preference for
agriculture.
B. industrialization became the preferred
area of activity for all Chinese.
C. Europeans became the predominant force in
all areas of Chinese production.
D. government tax policies favored the
industrial sector over the agricultural one.
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The
Japanese who seized Kyoto and spent his last years trying to consolidate his
rule was:
A. Yamato Ryutu.
B. Iza Shotoku.
C. Oda Nobunaga.
D. Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Question
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Hideyoshi
expelled missionaries from his domain in 1587 because the missionaries were:
A. supportive of the emperor rather than the
shogun.
B. selling indulgences.
C. destroying local Christian religious
shrines.
D. interfering in local Japanese political
matters.
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Newton’s
Principia:
A. placed the earth at the center of the
universe.
B. rejected the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler,
and Galileo.
C. mathematically disproved the universal law
of gravitation.
D. supplied the new theory of the universe
that combined the work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo.
Question
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Which of
the following was NOT one of the positive buzzwords of the Enlightenment?
A. Reason
B. Divine revelation
C. Natural law
D. Hope
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Enlightenment
advocates of economic liberalism:
A. urged rulers to guide their societies in
rationally determined directions.
B. were vigorously opposed by Adams Smith.
C. opposed attempts to establish
laissez-faire policies.
D. believed that individuals should be free
to pursue their own economic self-interest.
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Outside
of Europe, the major scenes of battle in the Seven Years War were:
A. North America and Africa.
B. Central America and India.
C. India and North America.
D. Latin America and Africa.
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Which of
the following statements is an accurate depiction of the nature of the British
Parliament in the latter half of the eighteenth century?
A. It was primarily composed of civil
libertarians who advocated individual rights.
B. Its role was primarily that of a rubber
stamp for the king.
C. It shared power with the king, gradually
gaining the upper hand.
D. Uniquely, women could become Members of
Parliament.
Question
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Britain
decided to end its war against the Americans after a combined American and
French force defeated General Cornwallis at:
A. Cowpens.
B. Newburgh.
C. Saratoga.
D. Yorktown.
Question
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The
military forces raised by the French revolutionary government was:
A. composed largely of non French
mercenaries.
B. the largest navy ever assembled in Europe
up to that point.
C. unsuccessful on the battlefield although
victorious in naval combat.
D. a true army of the people, whose intensity
was the beginning of the concept of total war.