1.

Slavery is
a) Something relatively new b) nonexistent c) as old as civilization d) not related to agriculture

2. The average enslaved person a slave ship during the Middle Passage, had . . . of space
a) 10 ft b) 4 ft c) 20ft d) 100 ft

3. . . . imported to the Americas went to the Caribbean.

a) 48% b) 10% c) 98% d) 100%

4. Enslaved African people in the Americas were most frequently involved in producing
a) Luxury consumer goods such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco
b) Essential food stuffs such as wheat, kale and corn
c) Silk textiles and silver production
d) Tea production and the manufacture of mini balls

5. Enslaved Africans were most often exchanged by African merchants and leaders for
a) Luxury goods, metal, guns, alcohol, textiles, and horses
b) Food stuffs
c) Enslaved Europeans
d) Scientific knowledge

6. Generally, slaves in the Caribbean and Brazil,

a) had very long lives and reproduced their societies
b) had short lives and other people were constantly being brought from Africa to replenish the supply of
slaves
c) no longer existed after 1700. They moved back to the places from which they came.
d) refused to do agricultural work because it was too difficult and they did not wish to leave the cities.

7. The definition of slave is

a) When someone has to pay taxes and gets something in return
b) When one person owns another
c) When one person loves a person who does not love them back
d) A person who possesses no physical property

8. Romans and Greeks associated slavery with

a) Otherness b) a lack of education c) cattle d) hemlock

9. Christianity associated slavery with

a) human sin and hereditary status c) redemption and sacrifice
b) respect and love d) taxes and starvation

10. Through the Zenj, the Islamic world associated slavery with
a) Africa b) Europe c) China d) Istanbul

11. The Divine Right of Kings suggests that

a) God makes kings therefore rebelling against the king is rebelling against the will of God
b) Kings have divine mystical powers and should be worshipped
c) Kings are an affront to the rights of the common people
d) God will make everyone equal to the king after death

12. The Little Ice Age involved

 a) a century long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s
b) the age in which people used ice in their drinks to prevent illness
c) people needing to rebel against unjust government because people are basically good
d) people needing chaos and civil war to think clearly and protect their property

13. John Locke, the apologist for the Glorious Revolution believed that
a) there is/was a contract between the government and the governed
b) God made kings and only God could depose kings
c) people were naturally good
d) people were naturally bad

14. The English Revolution involved all of the following EXCEPT

a) the rights of Englishmen b) parliament c) government as contract d) Hundred Years War

15. Charles I of England

a) lived a long healthy life b) was executed c) got along with parliament d) had no children

16. Charles II of England faced problems because

a) he liked to live well and parliament did not provide enough money
b) he disliked dogs
c) he had no brothers or sisters
d) he knew little about the French court and French life

17. James II of England

a) ruled for a very long time and was father of Charles II
b) was deposed for being Catholic
c) for becoming a Puritan
d) for wanting to leave England and move to Spain

18. The King James Bible

a) was significant in terms of the English language and in terms of supporting the authority of the
King
b) was the preferred translation of the Christian bible of the Puritans and others who challenged the
authority of the King
c) received little attention or recognition
d) was banned by James I, James II, Charles I, and Charles II of England

19. The Glorious Revolution emphasized the power of the

a) the parliament b) the peasants c) the king d) Christian bible

20. Louis XIV and Versailles represented the power of

a) Constitutionalism b) the nobility c) absolutism d) the Puritans

21. Henry VIII

a) Enriched himself by becoming head of the Church of England
b) Believed in good works and women’s rights
c) Supported the separation of church and state
d) Was the leading producer and seller of indulgences
 22. The Protestant reformation initially involved
a) Reforming and protesting against some of the practices of the Catholic Church
b) Protesting against peasants and local feudal lords
c) Encouraging the sale of indulgences and forming a separate church to sell them
d) Moving to the Americas to mine for silver

23. The economic prosperity of the papacy allowed the popes to

a) build larger armies to fight the Ottoman Empire
b) build magnificent new cathedrals such as Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome
c) make large donations to the poor of Russia
d) build hospitals to aid plague victims

24. In burning Leo X’s Papal Bull, Martin Luther

a) challenged the pope’s authority c) encouraged the sale of indulgences
b) rejected marriage d) rejected money

25. The Renaissance refers to

a) rebirth and flowering in the arts and sciences in Europe
b) the re-emergence of the Holy Roman Empire
c) the re-emergence of the Spanish Empire
d) the rebirth and growth of Catholicism in much of Europe

26. The Holy Roman Empire was located in

a) Rome b) Persia c) Central Europe d) Russia

27. The Scientific Revolution

a) created the idea of science c) was based on observation and experimentation and advanced mathematics
b) overthrew nonscientific governments d) based on focusing on faith and tradition

28. In absolutism,
a) the ruler embodies the state c) government is a contract
b) parliament embodies the state d) there is no bureaucracy

29. Enlightenment:
a) focused on applying rationality and natural laws to government and human society (popularized the Scientific
Revolution)
b) focused on ending taxation
c) focused on the notion that people were naturally bad
d) focused on exploration, romanticism, and an earth centric theory of the universe

30. Constitutionalism involved

a) the ruler embodies the state c) the absolute authority of the king
b) the state is laws both written d) the creation of free trade

31. The Incas did all of the following EXCEPT

a) built wells and roads
b) took the sacred objects (huacas) of conquered people to Cuzco
c) grow potatoes and corn
d) help the pilgrims survive their first winter in North America

32. The Aztecs saw their world as

a)Cyclical b) linear c) secular d) just

33. The Aztecs

a) Sacrificed tribute people to appease their gods
b) Studies many texts to better understand justice
c) Had the complete support of their subject people
d) Did not believe in warfare

34. All of the following was true of the Aztecs EXCEPT

a) They were very hierarchal
b) They had canals and floating gardens known as chinampas
c) They did not demand tribute from their subject people
d) They had large markets and sophisticated artwork

35. All of the following were true of the Incas EXCEPT

a) They came to power in the 13th century
b) They had a centralized system of trade and administration
c) They forced conquered elites to learn quechua and brought their sacred objects to Cuzco
d) They fought a long battle with the Aztecs

36. According to Crash Course, the Spanish

a) stepped into a power void c) don’t know how to fight
b) earn their position through merit d) don’t know how to sail

37. According to Crash Course, . . . of the silver in Eurasia comes from the Americas
a) 80% b) 50% c) 25% d) 10%

38. According to Crash Course neither the Ming nor the Spanish get rich because
a) They don’t adjust taxes for inflation c) their taxes are too high
b) They don’t have taxes d) they don’t trade enough

39. According to Crash Course, all of the following are problems for the Chinese
a) The spend their money on warfare c) they demand their taxes be paid in silver
b) They become ensnared in the silk trade d) they stop producing tea

40. Charles V who wants a unified central Europe, ends up

a) Achieving a unified central Europe
b) Divides his kingdom between his sons Phillip and Ferdinand
c) Adoring German nobles and writing a book about them
d) Moving to China

41. Ultimately 16th century Spain comes into conflict with

a) The Netherlands and England b) the Holy Roman Empire c) Norway d) Russia

42. The Columbian Exchange involved

a) the exchange of plants, animals, people and disease between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
b) the exchange of drugs between the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia
c) Columbus’s exchange of prisoners with the Aztecs
d) Columbus’s exchange of prisoners with the Portuguese

43. Capitalism was

a) that land should not and could not owned held privately c) that people needed to learn new skills
b) that people should not be Christians d) a system of large financial institutions I

44. Chartered Companies

a) saw that wealth and land were distributed more evenly c) vastly improved workers standard of living
b) consolidated land & help create a wage labor force d) paid a fee to the government in exchange for a monopoly

45. a Maroon was

a) a runaway slave, who often joined a community that consisted largely of runaway slaves
b) someone stranded on tropical island
c) a person who encouraged workers to live off the land and support the king
d) a person who ended slavery and consolidated the production of sugar

46. The heart of the Atlantic network of trade routes was

a) the Great Race to America c) the Great Circuit (Triangle of Trade)
b) the American "wealth belt." d) the European circuit

47. Mercantilism involved all of the following notions EXCEPT

a) the accumulation of precious metals c) more exports than imports
b) colonies sell raw materials to the mother country d) a ban on merchant capital

48. On most Caribbean islands, the percentage of slaves in the population was
a) 35% b) 55% c) 75% d) 90%

49. Initially, one of the most important items of export from the Americas to the rest of the world (15th-17th)
century was
a) precious metals b) cotton c) horses d) diamonds

50. Initially, international commodities produced in the Americas used

a) free labor b) no labor c) forced labor d) only animal labor

51. Potosi was

a) the capital of the viceroyalty of New Spain c) an important sugar plantation
b) the site of one of the Americas most important silver mines d) a name given to Native Americans

52. Zumbi was

a) an important mining tool b) the leader of Palmares c) an important viceroy d) a type of gun

53. Potosi provided

a) enough sugar and cotton to clothe and feed the entire Spanish Navy
b) enough money (precious metal) to pay for the Spanish military for 100 years
c) enough bureaucrats to populate ½ of Mexico
d) a term to categorize an entire group of people

54. Death rates among Amerindians peoples during the epidemics of the early colonial period were
 a) very high b) average c) very low d) no higher than at other times

55. By the end of the sixteenth century, what country occupied most of the Brazilian coast?
a) Spain b) England c) Portugal d) France

56. The Council of the Indies was created in Spain in 1524 in response to
a) calls for support by Spanish settlers c) competition from other European nations
b) the independent power of the conquistadores d) a need to raise armies against Amerindians

57. Originally Spanish territory in the Americas was divided into

a) the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru c) the Viceroyalties of Mexico and Florida
b) the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Mexico d) the Viceroyalties of California and Brazil

58. The encomienda system allowed the Spanish to demand

a) the devotion of the people to the local Gods
b) forced labor and payment in food, goods and textiles
c) that the people use ration coupons for food and fuel
d) an agreement with the people for loyalty to the king and pope

59. The compulsory labor system that was required of adult males to work for six months in the mines
factories or farms was
a) the compulsado b) the trabajador c) the mita d) the casa abondaza

60. Seventeenth-century sugar plantations of Brazil depended on

a) unionized workers b) slave labor c) the "mita" d) the development of sugar harvesting techniques

61. American-born whites were called

a) mestizos b) mulattos c) muchachos d) creoles

62. The height of the Atlantic Slave Trade was the

a) 18th century b) 19th century c) 17th century d) 16th century

63. The vast majority of enslaved people came from

a) Central West Africa b) East Africa c) China d) the Philippines

64 . . . . received the largest percentage of people enslaved Africans

a) Canada b) Mexico c) Louisiana d) Brazil

65. Amerindians (Native Americans) were

a) never enslaved c) immune to European diseases
b) enslaved by European settlers well into the 19th century d) deported to the Philippines and China

66. Squanto was

a) a lake in Mexico c) a type of corn
b) kidnaped and returned to a hometown decimated by disease d) an important conquistador

67. The quinta was

a) the name of a ship that brought settlers to Brazil
b) the 1/5 th of all precious metals owed to the Spanish Crown
c) a type of corn that enabled settlers to survive after first arriving in the Americas
d) a type of sugar cane that was least harmful to the environment.
68. In Brazil,
a) illegal slavery infiltrated the edges of society c) slavery was limited to those who would not convert to
Christianity
b) slavery was limited to cotton and sugar d) slaves participated in every part of the economy

69. Sugar cultivation was a complex undertaking because after growing the sugar
a) transporting the canes was necessary c) killing the pests on the cane was necessary
b) processing the canes was necessary d) mulling the spices was necessary

70. Which commodity was essential to the development of the Atlantic slave trade
a) potatoes b) corn c) sugar d) avocados

71. Initially most people sold into the Atlantic slave trade were
a) criminals b) prisoners of war (POWS) c) starving d) women

72. Las Casas suggested that

a) the Spanish look for slaves on the African continent
b) the Spanish end the African slave trade
c) the Spanish end sugar plantations
d) that Charles V give up the Holy Roman Empire

73. Limpieza de Sangre or pure blood was about

a) having “pure” Christian blood (no Jewish or Native American ancestry)
b) baptism giving people renewed life
c) living a life so free of “sin” your blood became pure
d) cleaning wounds so that they would not fester

74. The Portuguese begin pushing down the coast of Africa for all of the following reason,
e) a) sources of gold c) hoping to encircle and defeat the Muslim powers
f) b) Prester John d) they want to discover the Aztecs

75. Initially when the Portuguese encountered islands in the Atlantic (Azores, Madeiras & Cape Verde), they
a) altered the island’s environment and disease killed many of the inhabitants
b) were conquered by the people and adopted their culture
c) rejected all notion of further exploration
d) converted to Islam

76. The Alhambra Decree involved

a) expulsion of the Muslims from Spain c) expulsion of the Catholics from Granada
b) expulsion of the Aztecs from Peru d) expulsion of the Jews from Spain

77. In 1492,
a) Granada that last Islamic stronghold in Iberia fell c) Portugal invaded Spain
b) the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Argon collapsed d) the Ottomans invaded Russia

78. The Reconquista takes place in

a) Spain b) Mexico c) China d) Russia
79. The Spanish Inquisition was designed to monitor the activities of
a) good Catholics c) the Spanish Government
b) Conversos and Moriscos d) repenting criminals

80. All of the following are true in regards to China EXCEPT

a) China has been the economic engine of Eurasia
b) During the modern period, China has contained 25% of the world’s population, but only 5%
of the arable land
c) Before the twentieth century, China had a strong emphasis on gender equality
d) Historically China has been religiously and ethnically diverse

81. The capital of China was

a) usually in the North for defensive purposes c) usually in the South because of population
b) usually in the West for trade d) usually on an island for defensive purposes

82. The Grand Canal

a) Brought food and tribute north c) facilitated trade with Tibet
b) Brought pirates inland d) facilitated trade with Korea

83. All of the following is true of the Yellow River EXCEPT

a) It runs through an environmental disaster area
b) It is difficult to control
c) It is very straight
d) During the 18th century, its banks were very high

84. The Emperor Kangxi

a) greatly expanded Qing China c) lost large amounts of territory and shrunk China
b) expelled the Jesuits d) was completely illiterate

85. According to Crash Course, all of the following were the result of the Little Ice Age EXCEPT
a) In China, the Grand Canal starts to dry up,
b) In China, a decree telling widows not to kill themselves,
c) In Europe, people marry later
d) Soldier Calamity (Chinese term about disaster caused by soldier’s plundering)
e) A coffee shortage in the Ottoman Empire

86. All of the following are true according to Matteo Ricci EXCEPT
a) China has a monarch
b) “the Chinese imagine the whole world is included in their Kingdom”
c) “Only such as have earned a doctor's degree or that of licentiate are admitted to take part in
the government of the kingdom, and due to the interest of the magistrates and of the King himself
there is no lack of such candidates. Every public office is therefore fortified with and dependent
upon the attested science, prudence, and diplomacy of the person assigned to it, whether he be
taking office for the first time or is already experienced in the conduct of civil life.”
d) Many people in China think it does not include enough of Europe and the Americas and they
should have multiple Emperors

87. According to Matteo Ricci in China

a) “Women farm and men weave”
b) "No woman is moral who has two husbands, nor any vassal faithful to two lords."
c) “Chaos reigns and law does not exist”
d) Life is nasty, brutish, and short

88. According to the Aztec Account of Conquest, La Malinche,

a) refused to translate for Cortez c) left before the Spaniards encountered Motecuhzoma
b) refused to speak to the Aztecs d) translated the conversations between Motecuhzoma and the
Spaniards

89. According to the Aztec Account of Conquest, the Spaniards

a) attacked them in their temple during a religious celebration c) joined their religious celebration
and also worshipped their gods
b) demanded that Motecuhzoma marry La Malinche d) protected the local chiefs

Xalla Sculpture

1.The Xalla Sculpture was located in

a) Spain
b) Valley of Mexico
c) The Incas in the Andes Mountains
d) The Atlas Mountains for Morocco

2. The center of the worldview that held together an ethnically diverse group of people in the Valley
of Mexico was
a) the Temple of the Sun c) the Hagia Sophia
c) the Alhambra d) the Justinian Code

3. The Aztecs believed that the place site of the temple of the sun in the city of Teotihuacan was
a) the place where the world was created
b) the place where the moon set
c) a place that represented the emergence of Islam
d) a place that marked the emergence of the Tuareg
Domingo Álvares

1. Domingo Álvares was from

a) Seventeenth century Portugal c) Fifteenth century South Africa
b) Eighteenth century Benin d) Sixteenth century Mexico

2. The parents of Domingo Álvares were

a) Members of the inquisition b) famous conquistadors c) powerful healers and diviners d)
famous sailors

3. Domingo Álvares was

a) head of the Inquisition b) enslaved by the forces of King Aja of Dahomey c) captain of a
famous pirate vessel d) a rich encomiendaro

4. Doming Álvares went to /was taken to

a) Mexico and Spain b) Brazil and Portugal c) South Africa, the Netherlands and Benin d) the
Caribbean, Spain, and Paris

5. Domingo Álvares built a reputation for

a) His skill in navigation b) knowledge of warfare c) diplomatic and banking skills d) his
spiritual and therapeutic power

6. Domingo Álvares was

a) Tried by the Inquisition b) almost hanged in Jamaica c) incorporated into the Spanish Court
because of his skill with money d) made a colonel

7. Domingo Álvares
a) Died a rich man b) married the daughter of the King of Portugal c) was killed in a campaign
in Morocco d) died destitute and exiled

Sor Juana

1. According to her graphic biography, Sor Juana

a) Was never allowed to learn languages because she was a woman
b) Was fluent in Spanish, Latin, and Greek and also learned the language of her Aztec
Ancestors
c) Decided to have no contact with the Spanish
d) Moved to Spain to study Arabic

2. According to Sor Juana’s graphic biography,

a) Women in Spanish colonial society had numerous opportunities to receive an education
b) Women in Spanish colonial society could not normally receive a formal education
c) Women in Spanish colonial society had to learn Latin and Greek
d) Sor Juana was not allowed to enter her grandfather’s library
 3. According to Sor Juana’s graphic biography, she did all of the following EXCEPT
a) Wrote her first poem by the age of eight
b) Was a lady in waiting to the wife of the viceroy
c) Married at a young age
d) Became a nun

4. According to Sor Juana’s graphic biography, she

a) Wrote a poem praising the virtue of men and condemning women as irrational
b) Was censored by the Catholic Church in 1690 when a letter was published in which she
was critical of established Catholic ideas
c) She married for a second time and became the wife of the viceroy
d) She left Mexico and arrived in Spain

We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower

1. Where were the Wampanoag located?

a) Mexico City b) Cape Cod (eastern United States) c) Western Brazil d)
Lima Peru

2. Wampanoag means
a) people of the first light b) people who win c) first people d) the people who
farm

3. What ravaged the Wampanoag before the arrival of the Pilgrims?

a) Guns b) disease c) disagreement and migration d) starvation and fires

4. How do the village Pilgrims see the empty village that they find?
a) Sign from God b) a horrifying sight c) an area to be plowed under d) a new
hunting outpost

5. For historian Jill Lepore the story of the first Thanksgiving is

a) An event to be celebrate c) a story of cruelty and betrayal
b) An example of inclusivity d) as the beginning of Wampanoag power

6. When Massasoit is sick

a) Edward Winslow rushes to his side because that is “what Indians do”
b) Edward Winslow burns his village
c) Edward Winslow forces him to sign a treaty
d) Edward Winslow leaves for England

7. According to historians in After the Mayflower, all of the following are true
after the arrival of Puritans EXCEPT
a) Thousands of Puritans arrive in Massachusetts Bay
 b) The Puritans unleash animals particularly pigs who “vacuum up the food that
native people eat.”
c) The Puritans were deeply concerned about the death of native peoples due to
smallpox
d) For the Puritans land was status, for native peoples it was home

8. At his death, Massasoit made a point of

a) Going to England
b) stipulating in land deeds that Christian missionaries remain outside of his
territory
c) Writing a constitution
d) Of disinheriting his son and refusing to let his son marry because he saw
signs of doom

9. According to After the Mayflower, all of the falling are true of the war in
New England which begins in 1675, EXCEPT
a) The unification of all the English colonist and intervention of the Mohawks
were factors that helped to give victory to the English
b) King Philip’s secretary betrayed him
c) Hundreds of Indians, men, women and children were loaded into ships and
sold into slavery in the West Indies and Europe
d) The Mohawks and the Dutch intervened to help King Philip

10. According historians, after the English colonists shoot Philip, the do all of
the following EXCEPT
a) Enslave Phillip’s son, a nine year old boy, and sell him in the West Indies
b) Keep Phillip’s head displayed on a pike for two decades
c) Philip’s body parts were scattered across the English colonies as trophies of
war
d) The English colonists protected the praying Indians and never took up arms
against them again.