Chapter 11 Student Quiz

. Commercial growth during this time period was rooted in _____.

The discovery of the New World.

Increasingly productive agriculture.

New inventions.

The end of slavery worldwide.

. Rural people who were bound to the land they worked as well as to the will of their lord were called _____.

Serfs.

Slaves.

Knights.

Plebeians.

. Rice agriculture is efficient and has a high yield, meaning that _____.

It is rarer, so more expensive.

It feeds fewer people than the same area of wheat will.

It feeds more people than the same area of wheat will.

There is no difference between growing rice and wheat.

. The ability to sail against the wind was invented by _____ merchants.

Chinese.

Italian.

Arab.

Indian.

. In the 12th century, the manufacture of _____ radically changed throughout Eurasia, moving into industrial workshops.

Textiles.

Ships.

Coins.

Swords.

. Increased international trade caused the creation of new, more sophisticated forms of merchant organization, for example _____.

Guilds

Joint stock company.

Limited liability corporations.

Plantations.

. The most important export driving the trans-Saharan trade was _____.

Gold.

Silver.

Slaves.

Tropical fruits.

. It took Northern Europe until the _____ century to re-develop a system of international trade.

Fifth.

Ninth.

Twelfth.

Thirteenth.

. Ahupua'a tracts of land consisted of _____.

Wedge shaped segments running from the mountains to the sea.

Segments that ran along the coast.

Separate lagoons for fishing.

All of the above.

. Hawaiian society had a highly stratified system of social ranking.

True.

False.

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