Global Connections: 1450-1750
Which technological innovation of the 15th century significantly influenced global exploration and colonization?
The invention of the caravel.
The implementation of crop rotation techniques.
The creation of the steam engine.
The development of Morse Code.
What differentiated the role of women within Ottoman Empire and Mughal India during 1450-1750?
Women held identical roles and rights in both empires.
Women in the Ottoman Empire sometimes wielded considerable political power behind scenes, while women in Mughal India were more confined to domestic spheres.
Women were completely devoid of any influence or power in both societies.
The role of women was more restricted in the Ottoman Empire compared to Mughal India.
How did the transatlantic slave trade influence global economy between the years of 1450-1750?
It led to a global economic depression.
It promoted free trade policies worldwide.
It decreased Europe's reliance on colonial wealth.
It bolstered mercantilism through increased wealth for European nations via colonies' plantation economies.
How might the status of indigenous people in settler colonies change if they were given equal rights at first contact with European colonizers?
Slavery would've been completely eradicated globally by 1650.
A massive economic boom would sweep through all indigenous communities instantly upon contact with Europeans.
Indigenous cultures may experience less marginalization and erasure.
Europe wouldn't have colonized the Americas in the first place.
Which of the following social changes most directly resulted from the Atlantic Slave Trade in West African societies?
The rapid industrialization of West African economies due to technological transfer.
The widespread adoption of European languages among West African elites.
Increased military conflicts between European powers within West Africa.
The demographic imbalance due to the loss of a large number of young men and women.
How might the economic structures in the Americas have evolved if Indigenous peoples had been immune to Old World diseases transmitted following Columbus' voyages?
European settlers would have faced stronger resistance, possibly preventing colonization.
The encomienda system might not have been established due to a lack of need for forced labor.
Trade networks between the Americas and Europe could have developed as equal partnerships earlier.
The labor systems would likely have relied more on Indigenous peoples and less on African slave importation.
Which group's struggle for recognition in Eastern European society between the latter half of the 15th and mid-18th centuries best symbolizes the tension between mercantilism and the emerging capitalist model?
Gypsy communities dispersed throughout European countries
Serfs under the lordship of Russian nobility
Guildsmen in Germanic states
Jewish communities in Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth

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Which political ideology most directly influenced the cultural movement of Renaissance humanism in Europe?
Individualism, emphasizing personal achievement and expression.
Absolutism, focusing on the centralized power of monarchs.
Feudalism, based on land ownership and hierarchical obligations.
Mercantilism, concerned with national trade and economic self-sufficiency.
During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which group primarily provided enslaved Africans to European traders?
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Asian maritime merchants
The Ottoman Empire
African middlemen or coastal kingdoms
You live in Latin America in the year 1600. Your mom is an African from the Sierra Leone region of Africa. Your dad is a local creole descendant of Peninsulares. What are you?
Creole
Aztec
Mulatto
Mestizo