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ESTIMATED POPULATION OF CHINA 1000 CE ...... approx. 60 million 1100 CE ...... approx. 100 million 1200 CE ...... approx. 115 million The trend shown above is best explained by which of the following developments?
Correct answer: D - The introduction of fast-ripening Champa rice from Vietnam
"Each province sends its men in turn to labor for the Inca - some to the terraces, some to the roads, some to the armies. They are fed from the state stores while they serve, and when their turn is done they return to their own fields." - Account of Andean administration recorded by a Spanish official, 1550s The system described differed from Mexica (Aztec) imperial practice primarily in that it extracted
Correct answer: A - labor service rather than payments in goods
"The people of Cairo earned incalculable sums from him. They gave gold for every kind of goods, and spent it so freely that they depressed its value in Egypt and caused its price to fall." - al-Umari, Egyptian scholar, describing the 1324 visit of Mansa Musa of Mali to Cairo, written c. 1340 The situation described in the excerpt was most directly made possible by which of the following?
Correct answer: C - Malian control of West African gold and trans-Saharan trade routes
HISTORIAN 1: "The Mongol conquests killed on a scale unmatched before the twentieth century. Cities that had stood a thousand years were emptied, and irrigation works that fed millions were left in ruins." HISTORIAN 2: "Under Mongol authority a merchant could travel from the Black Sea to Beijing under a single protective order. Techniques, texts, and craftsmen moved across Eurasia at a speed never before possible." The two historians most clearly disagree about which of the following?
Correct answer: D - Whether Mongol rule chiefly destroyed or chiefly connected Eurasia
"Every few years the sultan's officers travel through the Christian provinces and take up the most promising boys. They are converted, taught the Turkish tongue, and trained for service. The ablest rise to command armies or govern provinces, and they owe everything to the sultan alone." - Report by a European ambassador resident in Constantinople, mid-1500s The system described served which of the following purposes for Ottoman rulers?
Correct answer: A - It created a governing elite wholly dependent on the sultan
"The Shah has declared the doctrine of the Twelve Imams the religion of his realm and requires it preached in every mosque. The Sultan in his turn styles himself protector of the Sunna and calls the Persians heretics." - Venetian diplomatic report on Ottoman-Safavid relations, 1520s The developments described in the excerpt are best understood as
Correct answer: C - the intensification of an existing division for political purposes
SILVER SHIPPED FROM SPANISH AMERICA (annual averages, estimated) 1550s ...... approx. 85 tons 1590s ...... approx. 270 tons Share ultimately reaching China: roughly one-third to one-half The pattern shown above was most directly driven by which of the following?
Correct answer: B - Chinese government requirements that taxes be paid in silver
"Slavery is forever abolished. Citizens shall be known only by the generic name of Blacks. No white man, of whatever nation, shall set foot on this territory with the title of master or proprietor." - Constitution of Haiti, 1805 The provisions above most clearly distinguish the Haitian Revolution from the Latin American independence movements of the same era in that Haiti's revolution
Correct answer: C - overturned the existing racial and social hierarchy
"The government shall establish model factories in silk, cement, and shipbuilding, engage foreign engineers at high salary, and once the enterprises are sound, sell them to private houses of proven ability." - Summary of Japanese industrial policy, 1870s The policy described differed most significantly from British industrialization in that Japanese industrialization
Correct answer: D - was directed and initially financed by the state
A cartoon published in a London satirical magazine in 1892 shows a British statesman in colonial dress straddling the African continent, one boot planted at Cairo and the other at Cape Town, with a telegraph wire stretched taut between his outstretched hands. The cartoon most directly comments on which of the following?
Correct answer: A - British ambitions for an unbroken north-south African corridor
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