Chapter 3 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

. Gu Yanwu blamed the collapse of the Ming dynasty in large part on officials' obsession with the writings of ___________.

. At the end of the 16th century, the Persian Shah Abbas moved the Safavid capital to ______ and added significant new structures to the existing city.

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The Sacred Edict

. The ninth-century Chinese technological innovation that transformed global warfare and empire building in subsequent centuries was:

. In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli asserted that rulers must always be guided by universal ethical rules when exercising power.

. The ruler Akbar promoted a fusion of Islamic, Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist traditions to consolidate his rule in the _____ Empire.

. In the 16th century, a struggle for control over the Horn of Africa, including present-day Ethiopia, involved both local groups and empires, like:

. The ______ Emperor of China was the first ruler of the Manchu Qing dynasty.

. For most rulers during the 16th century, political power was rooted in:

. Martin Luther was protected by the Frederick III, the powerful Elector of _____, who founded the university where Luther had worked.

. One of the ways Martin Luther attempted to make Christian teaching more accessible to common people was by:

. One of the consequences of the reduced cost of printing in Europe was:

. Philip II overplayed his hand in efforts to tighten his control over ________, and it emerged as an independent state in the 1580s.

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Philip II of Spain sailed his Invincible Armada against _______ in 1588 to protect his imperial interests.

. During the English Civil War, one of the revolutionaries' most radical acts was:

. In Leviathan, ________ wrote that a ruler was entitled to take extreme measures in defense of his power and his state, but that these measures should also serve the goal of a flourishing society.

. The Manchus built their own empire in the 1500s before invading and overthrowing the Ming Dynasty in China.

. The empire that controlled the most territory on the Mediterranean Sea in the 17th century was:

. Gu Yanwu and Francis Bacon both thought that the best reasoning is based upon observation and experimentation.

. The Indian astronomer Nilakantha Somayaji determined that the planets Mercury, Venus, and Mars orbited the sun, observations confirmed by the _______ astronomer Tycho Brahe.

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