CHAPTER 12 – 13 REVIEW

  1. In the fifteenth century, what did the Igbo people in West Africa have in common with the Iroquois League in North America?
  1. What was the largest pastoral society in West Africa in the fifteenth century?
  1. Why did the maritime expeditions of the Indian Ocean basin sponsored by the Ming emperor suddenly stop in 1433?
  1. In its effort to recover from the disruption of Mongol rule, where did the Ming dynasty look for inspiration?
  1. What reflected the fragmented and competitive political environment in Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
  1. In which empire was a Shia version of Islam made the official religion in the sixteenth century?
  1. Which empire established unified control over most of the Indian peninsula?
  1. What feature did the Mughal Empire and Songhay Empire share?
  1. The wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to what acts?
  1. What did the Inca Empire do that the Aztec Empire did not do?
  1. What could women do in both the Aztec and Inca empires?
  1. Which two societies shared a common religion?
  1. The Inca and Aztec empires practiced similar gender-based systems in which women and men operated in two separate but equivalent spheres, a system that scholars call
  1. In the fifteenth century, the gathering and hunting way of life associated with the Paleolithic era persisted in
  1. What was a principle underlying the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois League?
  1. After the fifteenth century, how did the Chinese state resolve the problem created by a growing population and land scarcity?
  1. Which empire ended the Byzantine Empire and came the closest to conquering Europe?
  1. The ruler of the Songhay Empire made the pilgrimage to Mecca and asked to be given which title?
  1. How was Islam introduced into Southeast Asia and West Africa?
  1. In what way were the Aztec and Inca empires similar?
  1. What did the Aztec Empire require conquered people to do?
  1. In the fifteenth century, long-distance trade shifted to
  1. What factor was a web of connection that linked many of the peoples in the world of the fifteenth century?
  1. In which century did European peoples begin to take on a more prominent role on the global stage?

Visual and Document Source Questions

  1. Which of the following was a way that the laws attributed to Moctezuma I maintained and enforced social distinctions in Aztec society?
  1. According to the excerpts from Diego Duran, whatis a way that a person could fall into slavery in Aztec society?
  1. What was one purpose of the storehouses in the provinces of the Inca Empire?
  1. What does the painting of Aristotle and Averroes suggest about Renaissance views on Greek learning and Islam?
  1. Which of the views of Muhammad mostly likely influenced the fifteenth-century Italian artist Giovanni da Modena?
  1. What distinguished the empires of Western Europe from other empires?
  1. Why did some Native Americans aid the Spanish in their initial invasion of the New World?
  1. The colonial economy of the Spanish Empire in former Aztec and Inca lands was based on
  1. Large-scale importation of new slaves continued into the nineteenth century. This describes slavery in
  1. In contrast to the Portuguese and Spanish colonists in Latin America, British colonists in North America sought to
  1. Describe a main feature of Qing China’s policy toward its possessions in central Asia?
  1. The Mughal ruler Akbar favored policies that promoted
  1. What was a result of the Ottoman Empire’s policy toward the Christian population in southeastern Europe?
  1. The introduction of corn and potatoes into the Afro-Eurasian diet is an example of the
  1. Small-scale independent farmers working their own land dominated the agricultural economy in
  1. Assimilationdescribes what happened to the native populations of the steppes and Siberia as a consequence of
  1. The process of expansion occurred at the same time that a distinctive state was taking shape in the
  1. Reinstatement of the jizyacontributed to the growth of ______opposition to ______rule by the late seventeenth century.
  1. In the conflict between the Islamic and Christian worlds, which event in the fifteenth century signaled that the Islamic world held the upper hand?
  1. What resulted from Russia’s westward expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
  1. Map 13.1 in the textbook shows the Americas in which century?

Visual and Document Source Questions

  1. “. . . honors, high posts, and judgeships are the rewards of great ability and good service.” This is a description of the ______found in a letter written by the diplomat for the Austrian Empire, Busbecq?
  1. “. . . I would doubtless be capable of governing other empires, just as the sun was capable of lighting up other worlds if they were exposed to its rays.” This reflects how ______saw his role as king as expressed in his memoirs?
  1. Which ruler emphasized the use of “spectacle” and public display to convey the impression of the exalted role of the monarch?
  1. In Visual Source 13.1, the “flame or tongue of fire” in the sky was viewed by the Aztecs as a sign of
  1. What is notably absent in the depictions of the encounters between the Aztecs and the Spanish in the visual sources?