Timbuktu In The Fifteenth Century Summary

The expansionist impulse of European monarchs in the latter fifteenth century was: A) Motivated by a desire to bypass Muslim merchants in trade with Asia and Africa. B) Temporarily subdued by the growth of Renaissance culture. C) Nourished by population decline and civil disorder. D) Disrupted by internal wars between bickering nobles. 1. Invented in the 1450s, the quadrant allowed a more precise measurement of: A) Distance. B) Direction. C) Longitude. D) Latitude. 2. Descriptions of Timbuktu in the fourteenth century refer to it as a(n): A) Military outpost in the kingdom of Ghana. B) Barren and inhospitable location in the Sahara. C)
C) Built ceremonial mounds on which to worship their gods. D) Used irrigation canals, dams, and hillside terracing to water their arid maize fields. 38. All the following belonged to the League of the Iroquois EXCEPT: A) Oneidas. B) Senecas. C) Huron. D) Mohawk. 39. A negative image of Native Americans among English settlers: A) Justified their claim that natives had disqualified themselves as rightful owners of the land. B) Spurred their desire to civilize and convert the natives to Christianity. C) Explained for them the easy conquest of the natives by the Spanish. D) Resulted from their lack of information about indigenous peoples of the Americas. 40. The root cause of King Philip’s War in New England stemmed from the anger of young Wampanoags at the colonists’: A) Refusal to sell them guns and supplies. B) Attacks on their land base and political sovereignty. C) Alliance with their hated enemies, the Narragansetts. D) Unwillingness to admit Native Americans to white churches and
C) Repayment of some debts. D) Location of the proposed national bank. 53. During the early eighteenth century, colonial assemblies: A) Gained the “power of the purse.” B) Lost political power to colonial governors. C) Concentrated on the distribution of patronage. D) Remained merely advisory bodies. 54. Passage of the Declaratory Act by Parliament: A) Resolved the problems that had created the Stamp Act crisis. B) Asserted Parliament’s power to enact laws for the colonies in “all cases whatsoever.” C) Politicized the American resistance movement. D) Demonstrated British desire to reach a compromise solution with the colonies on matters of taxation. 55. Americans objected to the Tea Act of 1773 because it would: A) Raise the price of tea in America. B) Bankrupt the popular East India Company. C) Threaten free enterprise in America. D) Increase Parliament’s taxation of tea. 56. The Intolerable Acts provided for all of the following EXCEPT the: A) Individual punishment of participants in the Boston Tea