Question 1

What is Melaka?

Accepted Answer

The city that is now Malaysia

Question 2

Who was Marco Polo?

Accepted Answer

The best-known long-distance traveler of Mongol times

Question 3

Who was Rabban Sauma?

Accepted Answer

A Christian priest who sought support for an invasion of Muslim Lands in 1287

Question 4

Who was Ibn Battuta?

Accepted Answer

An Islamic scholar and best-known Muslim traveler

Question 5

Who was John of Montecorvino?

Accepted Answer

An Italian Franciscan who became the first archbishop of Khanbaliq in 1307

Question 6

What was the Renaissance?

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A period of artistic and intellectual creativity from the 14th to 16th century

Question 7

What did Leonardo da Vinci employ in his work?

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The linear perspective, which represented three dimensions on flat two-dimensional surfaces

Question 8

Which sculptor depicted natural poses that reflected the actual workings of human muscles?

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Question 9

Who were humanists?

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Scholars who were interested in the humanities (literature, history, and moral philosophy)

Question 10

Who was Desiderus Erasmus?

Accepted Answer

A humanist who published the first edition of the Greek New Testament

Question 11

Which explorer is known for circumnavigating the globe?

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 12

Who was Vitus Bering?

Accepted Answer

A Danish navigator commissioned by Russian officials to seek a northwest passage.

Question 13

Who led three expeditions in the Pacific and came across Polynesian people?

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Captain James Cook

Question 14

What was the English Civil War?

Accepted Answer

A political and religious conflict from 1642 to 1649 that began with opposition to royal taxes.

Question 15

What was the Columbian Exchange?

Accepted Answer

The global diffusion of plants, food, crops, animals, human populations, and disease pathogens after Columbus' initial voyage

Question 16

What were Manila galleons?

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Heavily-armed Spanish ships that carried large cargoes between the Phillipines and Mexico

Question 17

Who was a commander of Portuguese forces in the Indian Ocean during the early sixteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Afonso d' Alboquerque

Question 18

Who was a commander of Spanish forces in the Philippines by 1565?

Accepted Answer

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi

Question 19

Who was Jan Pieterszoon Coen?

Accepted Answer

The architect of Dutch policy in Indonesia

Question 20

What was Manila?

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The busting hub of Spanish commercial activity.

Question 21

What was the Seven Years' War?

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A global conflict also called "the great war for empire"

Question 22

What was the Catholic Reformation?

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Efforts to define doctrine and persuade protestants to return to the Roman Church.

Question 23

What was the Council of Trent?

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An assembly of church officials between 1545-1563 to address doctrine and reform.

Question 24

What did the Habsburgs rule over?

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The Holy Roman Empire and titles to lands throughout Europe.

Question 25

What was the Spanish Inquisition?

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An order to persecute those who were not Catholic (especially Jews and Muslims).

Question 26

What was the Society of Jesus?

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An order that rigorously educated missionaries known as Jesuits.

Question 27

Who was Emperor Charles V?

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A king of the Holy Roman Empire who inherited and acquired authority across Europe.

Question 28

Who founded the Society of Jesus?

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St. Ignatius Loyola in 1540.

Question 29

What could be noted about witch-hunts in the 1600s?

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Gender played an important role as women were the most convicted witches.

Question 30

What was the Thirty Years' War?

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A massive conflict where the Holy Roman Empire tried to convert Bohemian subjects.

Question 31

Who was responsible for the fall of the Aztec Empire between 1519-1521?

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Hernan Cortes

Question 32

What were peninsulares?

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Migrants born in the Iberian peninsula in Europe (at the top of the social hierarchy in Latin America)

Question 33

Who was the Ming emperor from 1572 to 1620?

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Wanli

Question 34

Who was responsible for the fall of the Inca Empire between 1532-1533?

Accepted Answer

Francisco Pizarro

Question 35

What were the Millet?

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autonomous religious communities in the Ottoman Empire.

Question 36

Who was the Ming Dynasty founded by?

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Emperor Hongwu

Question 37

Who was Kangxi?

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A confucian scholar and enlightened Qing emperor.

Question 38

Who was Nurhaci?

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An ambitious chieftan that unified Machu tribes into a centralized state.

Question 39

What was the mita system?

Accepted Answer

The Inca practice of requisitioning draft labor for particularly difficult and dangerous chores.

Question 40

What were indentured laborers?

Accepted Answer

People who sold a portion of their working lives in exchange for passage across the Atlantic.

Question 41

What was the idea of "Son of Heaven"?

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The Chinese emperor was designated heavenly powers to maintain order on Earth.

Question 42

Who was Nzinga Mbemba?

Accepted Answer

A king known as Afonso I; became a devout Roman Catholic and sought to convert all his people.

Question 43

Who brought the important trading cities of Timbuktu and Jenne under their control?

Accepted Answer

Sunni Ali

Question 44

What replaced Ghana as the preeminent power in the thirteenth century?

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The Mali Empire

Question 45

What replaced the Mali Empire in the fifteenth century?

Accepted Answer

The Songhay Empire

Question 46

What was an hacienda?

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A Spanish estate, which produced foodstuffs for its own use as well as for sale to local markets.

Question 47

Who was Queen Nzinga?

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A warrior warrior who led the resistance against Portuguese forces for forty years.

Question 48

What was the encomienda system?

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European settlers forced the Taíno to work,

Question 49

What was Engenho?

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the sugar mill; more broadly, a complex of land, labor, buildings, animals, capital, and technical skills.

Question 50

What did the English colonies of Virginia and Carolina focus on for cultivation?

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Tobacco

Question 51

Who were conquistadores?

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Spanish conquerors.

Question 52

What did Shah Abbas the Great do?

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Fully revitlize the Safavid Empire after Ottomans seized its capital.

Question 53

Who was the founder of the Ottoman dynasty?

Accepted Answer

Osman Bey

Question 54

Under which ruler did the Ottoman empire expand the most?

Accepted Answer

Suleyman the Magnificient

Question 55

What were Devshirme?

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Slaves obtained from Christian populations.

Question 56

Who was Qianlong?

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Kangxi's grandson, whose reign marked the height of the Qing dynasty.

Question 57

What was filial piety?

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value implying not only duties of children to parents but also loyalty of subjects to the emperor.

Question 58

What did the The Dream of the Red Chamber explore?

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the dynamics of wealthy scholar-gentry families.

Question 59

What did the The Romance of the Three Kingdoms explore?

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political intrigue following the collapse of the Han dynasty.

Question 60

What did Journey to the West deal with?

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the seventh-century journey to India of the famous Buddhist monk Xuanzang,

Question 61

What was Ismail I the Shah (king) of?

Accepted Answer

The Safavid Empire

Question 62

What was the Triangle Trade known as?

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The demand for labor and trade that stimulated a profitable commerce.

Question 63

What was the Middle Passage?

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the trans-Atlantic journey aboard filthy and crowded slave ships.

Question 64

What was the Antonian movement?

Accepted Answer

A particularly influential form of Christianity in Kongo that began in 1704.

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