Author Question: Al-Bakri's Book of Highways and Kingdoms offer readers a glimpse into what? A) the wars of ... (Read 19 times)

asan beg · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

In an effort to rebuild the colony in Canada, the French crown

A) reduced the number of seigneuries granted as larger land grants were given to fewer people.
B) encouraged the emigration of men to the colony.
C) reduced the number of soldiers in the area in order to secure peace with the natives.
D) encouraged women to emigrate to the colony.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 2

Why did Vladimir the Great convert to Christianity?

A) because of a vision he had in a dream
B) because of the wealth and opulence in Constantinople
C) because of a battlefield victory
D) because he felt it was the most peaceful religion
E) because his wife urged him to do it

Question 3

The Plantation Duty Act was passed in response to

A) an increasing slave trade.
B) smugglers in the North American colonies who evaded trade regulations.
C) the need for colonial legislatures to be funded by property taxes levied on plantations.
D) Dutch pirates who attacked British ships.
E) an increase in sugar imports from Spanish colonies.

Question 4

How did nation-states encourage trade during the tenth century?

A) They stopped the clergy from interfering in commerce.
B) The implemented government regulation to ensure codes.
C) They would use military force to ensure merchants followed the rules.
D) They used taxation to raise revenue.
E) They offered a variety of rights to merchants.

Question 5

The Navigation Acts provided for

A) mercantilist regulations aimed to enhance English control over their portion of their transatlantic trade.
B) free trade between the English, Dutch, and Spanish.
C) regulations governing the transatlantic slave trade.
D) fewer regulations governing colonial trade.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 6

Al-Bakri's Book of Highways and Kingdoms offer readers a glimpse into what?

A) the wars of central African kingdoms
B) trade and how it was translated into wealth
C) how medical science spread quickly through Africa
D) the importance of tax collectors in Africa
E) the application of laws