Deck 20: Expansion and Isolation in Asia 1450 - 1750

Question 1

Until the 19^th century, most Russian peasants were

A) slaves
B) tenants
C) merchants
D) serfs

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Russian Orthodox Church

A) was fiercely anti-Catholic
B) completely ignored the existence of the Catholic Church
C) sought to align with the Catholic Church against Ottoman incursions
D) saw the Catholics as their allies against Protestantism

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In the later sixteenth century, Russian monarchs allowed _____________ merchants to settle and trade in the capital.

A) non-Catholic European
B) Ottoman
C) Catholic European
D) Muscovite

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In the 1560s, Russia's Ivan IV established a personal fiefdom called the

A) timar
B) devshirme
C) daimyo
D) oprichnina

Question 5

Russia's first massive peasant rebellion was sparked by the

A) death of Ivan the Great
B) king of Poland and Lithuania's attempt to place his Catholic son on the Russian throne
C) occupation of Moscow by Polish forces
D) Romanov family's seizure of the Russian throne

Question 6

As part of Tsar Peter the Great's attempt to Westernize Russia, all courtiers were required to learn

A) Latin
B) English
C) French
D) Italian

Question 7

Although Ming China was virtually self-sufficient, _________ was in short supply, especially after 1550.

A) manufactured goods
B) timber
C) silver
D) iron

Question 8

In the late Ming dynasty, the Chinese again faced mounted enemies from the north in the

A) Mongols
B) Russians
C) Jurchen
D) Manchu

Question 9

Ming emperor Wanli required that all taxes be collected in

A) silver
B) rice
C) labor service
D) gold

Question 10

China's most-admired export during the Ming dynasty was

A) silk
B) porcelain
C) tea
D) rice

Question 11

Most silk spinning and weaving was done by

A) children
B) men
C) women
D) those too old to work in rice cultivation

Question 12

By 1700 much of mainland Southeast Asia

A) was directly ruled by China's Qing emperor
B) was independent
C) was engaged in rebellion against China
D) paid tribute to the Qing emperor in exchange for political autonomy

Question 13

The Confucian ideal of Chinese society emphasized

A) autonomy
B) commercial exchange
C) efficiency
D) self-sufficiency

Question 14

Japan's regional lords were called

A) daimyo
B) shogun
C) samurai
D) nanban

Question 15

Tokugawa Ieyasu was notable for

A) deposing the emperor
B) declaring the role of shogun to be hereditary
C) first unifying all of Japan
D) eliminating the daimyo

Question 16

The shoguns' concern about Christianity was its

A) monotheism
B) tradition of proselytization
C) believers' insistence that it was the one true religion
D) focus on eternal salvation

Question 17

After the 1630s, the shoguns requirement that subordinate lords maintain households in the new capital of Edo was an effort to

A) control Japan's interior
B) prevent the spread of Christianity
C) ensure sufficient personnel for the army
D) promote order in the new city

Question 18

Unlike other societies of the time, Japan's urban and rural areas were tied together by

A) trade
B) building codes necessitated by the threat of earthquakes
C) religion
D) waste collection and recycling

Question 19

The geisha, private entertainers for Japan's wealthiest men, were

A) slaves
B) indentured servants
C) freed upon reaching adulthood
D) granted freedom once they had been "deflowered"

Question 20

After early kabuki theater performances prompted violence among audience members, the Tokugawa government

A) banned kabuki
B) required that audiences be segregated by gender
C) required that all performances include Neo-Confucian speeches
D) required all performers to be men

Question 21

The Korean institution known as the Samsa was

A) a kind of academic oversight committee, with power even over the king and acting as a moral police force
B) the class of nobles that staffed high councils and regional governorships
C) the Neo-Confucian constitution that advocated more radical state takeover and redistribution of land to peasants
D) the practice of confiscating temple lands and distributing them to loyal officials

Question 22

One defense strategy adopted by the Choson state against the Jurchen in the north was

A) mandatory military service for all Korean men
B) the construction of a wall along the northern border
C) to settle the northern frontier with land-hungry peasants from the south
D) to improve the military by awarding promotions based on merit, as determined by written examinations

Question 23

Slavery in Korea was different from that in China in that it

A) was banned
B) was often penal servitude
C) usually persisted for many generations
D) was often debt peonage

Question 24

The early modern period in Southeast Asia was characterized by

A) colonization by European powers
B) conquest by China and India
C) gunpowder-fueled, dynastic state-building
D) political fragmentation

Question 25

Southeast Asia's high overall population was largely the result of

A) wet-rice agriculture and acquired immunity to many lowland tropical maladies
B) a long period of peace and wet-rice agriculture
C) millet and barley production and European trade
D) acquired immunity to many lowland tropical maladies and an ingenious system of waste processing

Question 26

Most of the kingdoms of mainland Southeast Asia collected tribute in the form of

A) silver
B) labor
C) gold
D) rice and goods

Question 27

Imports to mainland Southeast Asia consisted primarily of

A) porcelain from China
B) consumer goods from Europe
C) metal ware from China
D) cloth from India

Question 28

With the exception of some areas in the south, the Philippines at the dawn of early modern times had

A) no dynastic rulers or overarching religious or ethical traditions
B) a single common language spoken across the archipelago
C) a social structure defined by a series of small kinship groups ruled by a king who controlled the entire archipelago
D) a strong Buddhist tradition

Question 29

Filipino life was forever altered in 1565 with the arrival of the

A) Spanish
B) Portuguese
C) Dutch
D) English

Question 30

Before the end of early modern times, nearly all of the Philippines had been converted to Catholicism, with the exception of Southern Mindanao and the Sulu Islands, which remained staunchly

A) Buddhist
B) Confucian
C) Muslim
D) Hindu