Question 1

The Muslim empires of the Ottomans,Safavids,and Mughals firmly rejected the introduction of European culture and technology during this period.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Compare the points of view expressed in Chinese,European,and Islamic ideas about cartography between 1500 and 1780.How did they reflect the broader perspectives of their respective societies?

Accepted Answer

Islamic,Chinese,and European maps reflec

Question 3

In China,the economy's increasing commercialization helped weaken government controls on what could be printed.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

In the sixteenth century,the world's most dynamic cultures were in Europe because of their control of the Atlantic trade.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What did the Ottomans see as evidence that the Islamic world had a monopoly on truth,enlightenment,and culture?

Accepted Answer

A)  Europeans had much less wealth than the Ottomans. 
B)  Nowhere else could the famous tulips of the Tulip Period be grown. 
C)  Ottoman military successes proved God's favor for their culture. 
D)  Ottoman science was more advanced than European science. 
A)  Europeans had much less wealth than the Ottomans. 
B)  Nowhere else could the famous tulips of the Tulip Period be grown. 
C)  Ottoman military successes proved God's favor for their culture. 
D)  Ottoman science was more advanced than European science.

Question 6

Which of the following was a way in which the arts were used by artists or their patrons to send a social message between 1500 and 1750?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ottoman and Qing rulers used architecture to communicate their wish for a more open relationship with their subjects. 
B)  Intellectuals in Benin used poetry to express their longing for a bygone golden age. 
C)  European women such as Mary Wollstonecraft took up the pen to counter the belief that women could not act as rational beings. 
D)  Mughal painters used styles imported from Europe to communicate their wish for greater cultural blending. 
A)  Ottoman and Qing rulers used architecture to communicate their wish for a more open relationship with their subjects. 
B)  Intellectuals in Benin used poetry to express their longing for a bygone golden age. 
C)  European women such as Mary Wollstonecraft took up the pen to counter the belief that women could not act as rational beings. 
D)  Mughal painters used styles imported from Europe to communicate their wish for greater cultural blending.

Question 7

What can historians use as evidence that the ideals of the Enlightenment were not universally accepted?

Accepted Answer

A)  Many governments employed censors and punished radical thinkers. 
B)  Riots occurred in university towns against the imposition of secular knowledge in the schools. 
C)  Artisans guilds passed rules against applying Newtonian physics to their crafts. 
D)  Women wrote in their journals that they refused to conduct experiments because they feared a loss of femininity. 
A)  Many governments employed censors and punished radical thinkers. 
B)  Riots occurred in university towns against the imposition of secular knowledge in the schools. 
C)  Artisans guilds passed rules against applying Newtonian physics to their crafts. 
D)  Women wrote in their journals that they refused to conduct experiments because they feared a loss of femininity.

Question 8

The Ottoman Empire was more ethnically,religiously,and linguistically diverse than any previous Muslim state.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,European thinkers developed new ideas about how the world's people could be classified.Discuss the origins of this system of thought and compare it with the systems of classification used in China.

Accepted Answer

The new system for classifying the world

Question 10

Which of the following did Captain Cook and Christopher Columbus have in common?

Accepted Answer

A)  Both of them sailed to obtain scientific knowledge as well as empire. 
B)  Both of them were killed by people they met in their travels. 
C)  Both of them returned home with news of gold that could be exploited. 
D)  Both of them changed local ecologies by introducing European flora and fauna to unfamiliar environments. 
A)  Both of them sailed to obtain scientific knowledge as well as empire. 
B)  Both of them were killed by people they met in their travels. 
C)  Both of them returned home with news of gold that could be exploited. 
D)  Both of them changed local ecologies by introducing European flora and fauna to unfamiliar environments.

Question 11

In what way might the transporting of British prisoners to Australia be considered an Enlightenment concept?

Accepted Answer

A)  Once their terms of incarceration were completed,all residents in Australia were to have equal rights to life,liberty,and property. 
B)  The costs of incarceration in Britain would go down according to free market principles. 
C)  Prisoners were to be removed from an environment that did not suit them and sent to a new one where they could reform. 
D)  Transportation was a more enlightened form of punishment than hanging. 
A)  Once their terms of incarceration were completed,all residents in Australia were to have equal rights to life,liberty,and property. 
B)  The costs of incarceration in Britain would go down according to free market principles. 
C)  Prisoners were to be removed from an environment that did not suit them and sent to a new one where they could reform. 
D)  Transportation was a more enlightened form of punishment than hanging.

Question 12

How did Europe's cultural exchanges with the Americas and the Pacific compare with its exchanges with China and the Islamic world?

Accepted Answer

A)  Unlike cultures in China and the Islamic world,indigenous cultures in the Americas and the Pacific were undermined by contact with Europeans. 
B)  Chinese and Islamic rulers,as well as indigenous leaders in the Americas and Pacific,brought artists from all over the world to glorify their regimes. 
C)  Chinese and Islamic rulers,as well as indigenous leaders in the Americas and Pacific,eagerly supported Christian missionaries. 
D)  Unlike cultures in China and the Islamic world,indigenous cultures in the Americas and the Pacific were eager for trade contact with Europeans. 
A)  Unlike cultures in China and the Islamic world,indigenous cultures in the Americas and the Pacific were undermined by contact with Europeans. 
B)  Chinese and Islamic rulers,as well as indigenous leaders in the Americas and Pacific,brought artists from all over the world to glorify their regimes. 
C)  Chinese and Islamic rulers,as well as indigenous leaders in the Americas and Pacific,eagerly supported Christian missionaries. 
D)  Unlike cultures in China and the Islamic world,indigenous cultures in the Americas and the Pacific were eager for trade contact with Europeans.

Question 13

What type of significant artwork was produced by the Oyo Empire and Benin?

Accepted Answer

A)  Detailed paintings of plant life 
B)  Intricate silver jewelry 
C)  Sophisticated bronzes 
D)  Enormous marble palaces and temples 
A)  Detailed paintings of plant life 
B)  Intricate silver jewelry 
C)  Sophisticated bronzes 
D)  Enormous marble palaces and temples

Question 14

Which of the following is a similarity between the ways that the rulers of Muslim and Chinese empires used the new wealth circulating in global trade?

Accepted Answer

A)  Chinese and Muslim rulers financed pure scientific research. 
B)  Chinese and Muslim rulers glorified their regimes through magnificent architecture and art. 
C)  Chinese and Muslim rulers lowered taxes on their peasant populations. 
D)  Chinese and Muslim rulers established new universities to teach western knowledge. 
A)  Chinese and Muslim rulers financed pure scientific research. 
B)  Chinese and Muslim rulers glorified their regimes through magnificent architecture and art. 
C)  Chinese and Muslim rulers lowered taxes on their peasant populations. 
D)  Chinese and Muslim rulers established new universities to teach western knowledge.

Question 15

For what reason did the Chinese take little interest in the maps brought by Matteo Ricci?

Accepted Answer

A)  Chinese maps exhibited a higher degree of geometric and mathematical precision. 
B)  The Chinese knew that the Earth was round,and ridiculed the flat Earth shown in Ricci's maps. 
C)  The Chinese believed that Ricci's maps made China seem an unimportant country on the edge of the world. 
D)  Chinese maps reflected more knowledge of other parts of the world. 
A)  Chinese maps exhibited a higher degree of geometric and mathematical precision. 
B)  The Chinese knew that the Earth was round,and ridiculed the flat Earth shown in Ricci's maps. 
C)  The Chinese believed that Ricci's maps made China seem an unimportant country on the edge of the world. 
D)  Chinese maps reflected more knowledge of other parts of the world.

Question 16

How did the Enlightenment and imperialism relate to each other?

Accepted Answer

A)  Enlightened thinkers were strongly opposed to imperialism. 
B)  Rulers used the methods and principles of the Enlightenment to advance imperialism. 
C)  Enlightened thought often impeded the state-building necessary for imperialism. 
D)  Enlightened thinkers were concerned with domestic rather than international affairs. 
A)  Enlightened thinkers were strongly opposed to imperialism. 
B)  Rulers used the methods and principles of the Enlightenment to advance imperialism. 
C)  Enlightened thought often impeded the state-building necessary for imperialism. 
D)  Enlightened thinkers were concerned with domestic rather than international affairs.

Question 17

Analyze how the Enlightenment was defined both in terms of ideas and in terms of social practices,and explain the context from which those ideas and practices emerged.

Accepted Answer

The term Enlightenment describes a perio

Question 18

Which of the following is an important cultural achievement of the Safavids?

Accepted Answer

A)  The art of the period reflected the majesty and aloofness of the Safavid shahs. 
B)  The Safavids created a blending of Sunni and Shia poetry. 
C)  The Safavid Empire provided a home for Shiite Islam and blended it with traditional Persian culture. 
D)  The Safavid capital,Isfahan,was modeled after the Topkapi palace in Istanbul. 
A)  The art of the period reflected the majesty and aloofness of the Safavid shahs. 
B)  The Safavids created a blending of Sunni and Shia poetry. 
C)  The Safavid Empire provided a home for Shiite Islam and blended it with traditional Persian culture. 
D)  The Safavid capital,Isfahan,was modeled after the Topkapi palace in Istanbul.

Question 19

How did the literary culture of late Ming and early Qing China affect elite women's lives?

Accepted Answer

A)  Elite women's success as writers,readers,and editors encouraged them to assume a wider range of social roles. 
B)  Elite women read about the lives of poor women and developed a new sense of female solidarity that crossed class boundaries. 
C)  Elite women were generally able to participate as writers,readers,and editors,despite increasing constraints on their lives. 
D)  Elite women were not encouraged to participate in literary culture,but the most popular books had strong female characters. 
A)  Elite women's success as writers,readers,and editors encouraged them to assume a wider range of social roles. 
B)  Elite women read about the lives of poor women and developed a new sense of female solidarity that crossed class boundaries. 
C)  Elite women were generally able to participate as writers,readers,and editors,despite increasing constraints on their lives. 
D)  Elite women were not encouraged to participate in literary culture,but the most popular books had strong female characters.

Question 20

Why did Ming China escape the sectarian warfare that ravaged Europe?

Accepted Answer

A)  All Chinese people shared one religion,so there was nothing to cause conflict. 
B)  Chinese government was so centralized that regional leaders lacked the ability to fight in defense of their religious beliefs. 
C)  European visitors told Chinese leaders about religious warfare in their homeland,and the Chinese vowed to avoid making the same mistake. 
D)  The Chinese believed it was the emperor,rather than any religious group,that held the mandate of heaven,so no sect was favored over the others. 
A)  All Chinese people shared one religion,so there was nothing to cause conflict. 
B)  Chinese government was so centralized that regional leaders lacked the ability to fight in defense of their religious beliefs. 
C)  European visitors told Chinese leaders about religious warfare in their homeland,and the Chinese vowed to avoid making the same mistake. 
D)  The Chinese believed it was the emperor,rather than any religious group,that held the mandate of heaven,so no sect was favored over the others.

Exam 14: Cultures of Splendor and Power 1500-1780

The Muslim empires of the Ottomans,Safavids,and Mughals firmly rejected the introduction of European culture and technology during this period.

Compare the points of view expressed in Chinese,European,and Islamic ideas about cartography between 1500 and 1780.How did they reflect the broader perspectives of their respective societies?

In China,the economy's increasing commercialization helped weaken government controls on what could be printed.

In the sixteenth century,the world's most dynamic cultures were in Europe because of their control of the Atlantic trade.

What did the Ottomans see as evidence that the Islamic world had a monopoly on truth,enlightenment,and culture?

Which of the following was a way in which the arts were used by artists or their patrons to send a social message between 1500 and 1750?

What can historians use as evidence that the ideals of the Enlightenment were not universally accepted?

The Ottoman Empire was more ethnically,religiously,and linguistically diverse than any previous Muslim state.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,European thinkers developed new ideas about how the world's people could be classified.Discuss the origins of this system of thought and compare it with the systems of classification used in China.

Which of the following did Captain Cook and Christopher Columbus have in common?

In what way might the transporting of British prisoners to Australia be considered an Enlightenment concept?

How did Europe's cultural exchanges with the Americas and the Pacific compare with its exchanges with China and the Islamic world?

What type of significant artwork was produced by the Oyo Empire and Benin?

Which of the following is a similarity between the ways that the rulers of Muslim and Chinese empires used the new wealth circulating in global trade?

For what reason did the Chinese take little interest in the maps brought by Matteo Ricci?

How did the Enlightenment and imperialism relate to each other?

Analyze how the Enlightenment was defined both in terms of ideas and in terms of social practices,and explain the context from which those ideas and practices emerged.

Which of the following is an important cultural achievement of the Safavids?

How did the literary culture of late Ming and early Qing China affect elite women's lives?

Why did Ming China escape the sectarian warfare that ravaged Europe?

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