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Chapter 12: The European Empires

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz

This activity contains 26 questions.

	All sixteenth-century Europeans believed that the world was flat.    True  False

	In the sixteenth century, Europeans believed that the Mediterranean was the center of the earth.    True  False

	Because they had little to trade, Europeans paid for spices with bullion.    True  False

	The Portuguese ruler, Prince Henry the Navigator, studied navigational techniques, accumulated detailed accounts of voyages, and encouraged the creation of accurate maps of the African coastline.    True  False

	Vasco da Gama rounded Cape Fear and entered the Indian Ocean.    True  False

	Christopher Columbus was a Spaniard who convinced Isabella and Ferdinand to support voyages of discovery.    True  False

	Ferdinand Magellan died during the voyage around the world. His crew completed the trip without him.    True  False

	In thirty years the population of the Aztec Empire declined from 25 million to 2 million.    True  False

	The Dominican priest, Bartolomé de Las Casas, justified the enslavement of native populations.    True  False

	In the sixteenth century, the Mongol Empire remained unified with its capital in Asia.    True  False

	The largest and most developed states in the Holy Roman Empire were located in the western half of the Empire.    True  False

	The marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella resulted in the complete unification of the Aragon and Castile.    True  False

	Wales and Scotland were mountainous and had harsh climates that made agriculture difficult.    True  False

	European states uniformly forbade women from succeeding to thrones.    True  False

	Muscovy succeeded Constantinople as the capital of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.    True  False

	The boyars were originally powerful landlords of great estates who owed little to the tsars of Muscovy.    True  False

	Ivan the Terrible received his nickname from his attempts to crush the military service class of Muscovy.    True  False

	The unification of the Polish and Lithuanian crowns in 1569 also involved the decentralization of power and the strengthening of the rights of the nobility in both countries.    True  False

	The Wars of the Roses were fought over the claims of two cadet branches of the English royal family—the house of Lancaster and the Tudors.    True  False

	English landholders were among the most heavily taxed in Europe.    True  False

	Thomas Cromwell believed that careful management of Parliament would strengthen the monarchy in England.    True  False

	The duke of Burgundy was defeated first by the Swiss, not by the French.    True  False

	One of the strengths of the French monarchy was the well-established principle of taxation in France.    True  False

	One of the side-effects of the reconquista was anti-Semitism leading to the eventual expulsion of the Jews from Spain.    True  False

	Henry VIII of England was allied first with the Holy Roman Empire and then with France during the Italian Wars.    True  False

	The Treaty of Madrid finally ended the Italian Wars.    True  False

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