GED 130 Introductions to Civilization Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet) 1. Bartholomew Dias failed to complete a sea voyage to India because a. he died of malaria after rounding the Cape of Good Hope b. he miscalculated the distance and ended up in the New World c. his sailors insisted on returning home d. he was attacked by pirates in the Mediterranean Sea 2. What unusual title did Isabella, a woman, insist on being called as ruler of Castile? a. prince b. king c. pope d. great mother 3. Which man finally accomplished what Columbus set out and failed to do? a. Ferdinand Magellan b. Bartholomeu Dias c. Pedro Alvares Cabral d. Vasco da Gama 4. Portugal established a trading post in China at a. Macao b. Kilwa c. Canton d. Beijing 5. The two viceroyalties in Spanish America prior to 1717 were a. California and Mexico b. Louisiana and Peru c. Peru and New Spain d. New Spain and Argentina 6. The most important Catholic sacraments were baptism, the Eucharist, and a. penance b. last rites c. matrimony d. ordination 7. Which of these explains the popularity among nobles of Luther's Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation? a. It called for German nobles to seize Church property. b. It called for adherence to the Catholic Church. c. It justified the Peasants' Revolt. d. It asserted that those of high birth are more likely to be saved. 8. Which man spread Calvinist doctrine to Scotland? a. John Wyclif b. Huldrych Zwingli c. Thomas Cranmer d. John Knox 9. Which monarch was Protestant? a. Queen Mary of England b. Catherine de Medicis c. King Philip II of Spain d. Queen Elizabeth of England 10. Why was Catholicism more successful than Protestantism in spreading around the world? a. the influence of the Spanish and Portuguese empires b. the lack of competition from monotheistic religions c. the lack of the missionary impulse among Protestants d. the preference of Muslims for converting to Catholicism rather than Protestantism 11. Oda Nobunaga began but did not complete the process of a. restoring the authority of the emperor b. unifying Japan c. destroying the daimyo class d. establishing the shogunate 12. Who exercised real power in Japan in the 1600s? a. the shogun b. the daimyo c. the samurai d. the emperor 13. Who were the geisha in Japan? a. samurai wives b. singers, dancers, and courtesans c. concubines of the emperor d. women of the daimyo class 14. Around 1550, European incursions into mainland Asia were a. under Japanese control b. unlimited c. growing rapidly d. controlled by China 15. As a result of the Manchu decline, who gained a foothold in Vietnam? a. France b. Portugal c. Japan d. England 16. When did Portuguese explorers first reach India? a. 1460s b. 1490s c. 1530s d. 1570s 17. Which of these made it so difficult for South and Southeast Asians to understand the motives of the Europeans they dealt with? a. The European religions were so different from the local religions. b. The motives of various European groups were so sharply varied. c. European commercial practices were hard for Indians and Southeast Asians to understand. d. The European interest in trade was hard to understand for devout Muslims and Hindus. 18. In the face of European encroachment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rivalry between Muslims and Hindus in India a. made India vulnerable b. ended c. led to a Buddhist resurgence d. led to a new religious synthesis 19. In which of these efforts was Nadir Shah successful? a. reconciling Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims under his rule b. ending Mughal rule of all India c. establishing a lasting dynasty d. bringing stability to Persia 20. What was the status of the Ottoman Empire in the 1800s? a. modernized and revived b. weakened and challenged by reform movements c. torn by Wahhabism and economically weak d. divided but modernized 21. What was Ibn Khaldun's assessment of African slavery? a. Slavery was an evil institution that should be resisted by any means necessary. b. Black people accepted slavery because they had a low degree of humanity. c. Since black people comprised the majority in Africa, they should rebel and then enslave white people. d. Slavery was ordained by God as a way to keep social order. 22. What percentage of all slaves shipped across the Atlantic from Africa went to what is now the United States? a. almost 50 percent b. about 10 percent c. almost 70 percent d. less than 5 percent 23. The Songhai Empire was established after the decline of a. Kongo b. Ethiopia c. Morocco d. Mali 24. Afonso I came to regret his Portuguese connection after he saw the disastrous results of a. smallpox b. slave trading c. the break with Islamic traders d. the Crusades 25. "Mwene Mutapa" means a. master conqueror b. slave owner c. greatest king d. runaway slave 26. Who was the chief minister during the childhood reign of Louis XIV? a. the Queen Mother b. Pope Pius IV c. Cardinal Richelieu d. Cardinal Mazarin 27. Where was Prussia located? a. in the center of the