Deck 14: D: Political Transformations Empires and Encounters 1450-1750

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Term used to describe the devastating demographic impact of European-borne epidemic diseases on the Americas.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Answer 1

the Great Dying

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
One of the most successful empires of India,a state founded by Muslim Turks who invaded India in 1526;their rule was noted for efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Answer 2

Mughal Empire

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Native American slave from an elite background who in 1519 became Cortés's indispensable interpreter and strategist.She accompanied him during his conquest of the Aztec Empire and bore him a son.After the conquest she was married off to another conquistador and died around 1530 C.E.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Answer 3

Doña Marina

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Spanish conquistador (1485-1547)who led the expedition that conquered the Aztec Empire in modern Mexico.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Agricultural system based on African slavery that was used in Brazil,the Caribbean,and the southern colonies of North America.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Colonies in which the colonizing people settled in large numbers rather than simply spending relatively small numbers to exploit the region;particularly noteworthy in the case of the British colonies in North America.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The capital and almost the only outpost left of the Byzantine Empire,which fell to the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" in 1453,an event that marked the end of Christian Byzantium.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Tribute that Russian rulers demanded from the native peoples of Siberia,most often in the form of furs.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A period of unusually cool temperatures that spanned much of the early modern period,most prominently in the Northern Hemisphere.The impact of the cooler climate reached its peak in many regions in the mid-seventeenth century,helping to spark a period of record or near-record cold winters in much of China,Europe,and North America.Regions near the equator in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere also experienced extreme conditions.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The most famous emperor of India's Mughal Empire ;his policies are noted for their efforts at religious tolerance and inclusion.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The massive transatlantic interaction and exchange between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia that began in the period of European exploration and colonization.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 12

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to include the Balkans,the Near East,and much of North Africa.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 13

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Russia's great frontier region,a vast territory of what is now central and eastern Russia,most of it unsuitable for agriculture but rich in mineral resources and fur-bearing animals.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 14

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Literally,"mixed";a term used to describe the mixed-race population of Spanish colonial societies in the Americas.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 15

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Mughal emperor who reversed his predecessors' policies of religious tolerance and attempted to impose Islamic supremacy.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 16

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Ruling dynasty of China from 1644 to 1912;these rulers were originally from Manchuria,which had conquered China.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 17

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Term commonly used for people of mixed African and European blood.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 18

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
In the Spanish colonies of Latin America,the term used to refer to people who had been born in Spain;they claimed superiority over Spaniards born in the Americas.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme

Question 19

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The tribute of boy children that the Ottoman Turks levied on their Christian subjects in the Balkans;the Ottomans raised the boys for service in the civil administration or in the elite Janissary infantry corps.

A)Cortés
B)Doña Marina
C)the Great Dying
D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
E)Columbian exchange
F)peninsulares
G)mestizo
H)mulattoes
I)plantation complex
J)settler colonies
K)Siberia
L)yasak
M)Qing dynasty empire
N)Mughal Empire
O)Akbar
P)Aurangzeb
Q)Ottoman Empire
R)Constantinople
S)the devshirme