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Chapter 19 Quiz B with Explanations
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What was the purpose of the Ottoman timar system?
It provided non-Muslim merchants with access to markets.
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It distributed land in exchange for military service.
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It rewarded the Ottoman nobility with land.
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It supplied the government with a stable tax base.
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Which Ottoman ruler added the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina to the empire in the sixteenth century?
Mehmet II
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Murad III
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Selim I
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Suleiman
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The Ottoman threat to Europe significantly declined after the empire's failure in 1683 to conquer
Vienna.
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Malta.
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Moscow.
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Warsaw.
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What caused inflation in the Ottoman Empire in the decades around 1600?
The collapse of Ottoman agriculture
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The long war with the Safavids
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The influx of Spanish silver
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The growth of population in the empire
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Even though Ottoman society was strictly patriarchal, Ottoman Muslim women had full rights to their property and investments because
of the influence of non-Muslim traditions.
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they were guaranteed by Islamic law.
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of the influence of women in Ottoman court.
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they were so given by order of the sultan.
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In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Jews migrated to the Ottoman Empire from which European state?
Portugal
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Holy Roman Empire
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France
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Spain
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The growing need for what resource greatly changed the European landscape by 1500?
Stone
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Coal
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Water
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Wood
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What was at the center of Martin Luther's theological beliefs that led to conflict with the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century?
He believed that the institution of the papacy should be strengthened to correct the "sins" of the Church.
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He emphasized the important role of purgatory as an intermediate place to purge oneself of sin.
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He placed importance on individual faith rather than on the institutions and traditions of the Catholic Church.
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He held that a life of good works to humanity was the sole requirement for entry into heaven.
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Which Catholic religious order was founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534?
The Jesuits
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The Cistercians
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The Inquisition
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The Huguenots
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In which European country did the Edict of Nantes give tolerance to Protestants?
Spain
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France
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Switzerland
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Poland
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Which Spanish ruler asserted his right over the Portuguese throne in 1580?
Philip II
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Henry IV
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Charles V
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Ferdinand II
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What was the major cause of the Thirty Years' War during the seventeenth century?
The Spanish monarchy's effort to expand into Central Europe
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Rivalry among Protestant groups to lead the movement
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Conflict between France and the Holy Roman Empire over territory
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Struggle over religious autonomy in the Holy Roman Empire
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What resulted from the scarcity of hard currency in early seventeenth-century Europe?
Nations began a second wave of exploration for new metal sources.
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Central governments became more directly involved in economic management.
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Long-distance trade with India and China slowed to a trickle.
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People returned to bartering for goods and services.
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The Scientific Revolution began in the sixteenth century with the challenging of what long-held scientific theory?
The heliocentric view of the universe
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The alchemist model of chemistry
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The geocentric view of the universe
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The Cartesian view of deductive reasoning
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Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, what differentiated the European economic system from those found in the rest of the world?
It developed solely on the basis of agriculture.
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It evolved into a system without currency.
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It began to develop into a capitalist system.
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It evolved under strict control of regional monarchies.
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The Navigation Acts passed by the English Parliament in the seventeenth century were an example of what economic policy?
Mercantilism
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Feudalism
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Absolutism
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Constitutionalism
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In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Versailles became the physical embodiment of absolutism under
Charles V.
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Louis XIV.
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Philip II.
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Henry IV.
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What happened to monarchical power in England as a result of the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
The monarchy's power was the strengthened with French help.
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The monarchy's power was fully transferred to Parliament.
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The monarchy's power remained the same after James II.
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The monarchy's power was curtailed by Parliament.
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Why did the arrival of the U.S. merchants off the Barbary Coast in the early nineteenth century change the fortunes of the Barbary pirates?
The United States was able to unify European governments against the pirates.
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The pirates made even more money as the United States acceded to ransom demands.
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Superior U.S. military technology forced Barbary pirates to make peace.
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The United States became the Barbary pirates' major trading partner, angering France and Britain.
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