69 multiple choice questions
1 question based on short reading (deals with the Scientific Revolution) Directions: This handout is yours to use as you see fit (write on it, etc…). However, you will not be able to use this study guide during the Exam and it is not worth any additional points!
The Columbian Exchanges included all of these EXCEPT…
Why were the encomiendas discontinued by the 1620s?
Which of the following practices was extended to the Americas as a result of Portuguese commercial and colonial experience elsewhere?
What culture or type of lifestyle had influenced world history since the Neolithic Revolution, but ceased to play any role after this era (early modern period)?
What largely influenced and financed the Renaissance?
How did mercantilism differ from capitalism?
Who were the “Old Believers?”
What was a major trade development between 1450 and 1750?
Unlike Spanish Latin America, what came to be the most important economic activity in Portuguese Brazil?
Changes during the Reformation influenced all of these developments EXCEPT…
Where was Peter the Great’s program of economic development concentrated?
The “Time of Troubles” followed the death of what Russian tsar?
What monarch was associated with the establishment of enlightened despotism in Prussia in the middle of the 18th century?
Which of the following actions accounts in part for the decline in the Italian Renaissance?
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of Iberian society?
Where were the nations of the core region that would dominate the global trade network located?
In 1649, what happened to Russia serfdom?
What was the only group to support the tsar’s attempts to modernize Russia and increase the power of the central government?
What became the economic focus when Portuguese domination of the sugar refining market ended in Brazil?
Which of the following best describes