5 Written Questions

1. tried to blend Aristotle's and Plato's views with those of Islam- argued that Greek philosophy had the same goal: to find the truth.
2. to make as much money as possible and get rich quick
3. locational advantage of being closest to the americas geographically
4. Ibn Khaldun synthesized world history in an Islamic view Called "Muqaddimah" Means introduction. Reflections that advance into the area of theory. Said that cities were held together by the differences of each city. Division of labor. Also villages exist by simplicity where people are the same and depend on each other. Cities need villages and villages need cities.Third kind of people. Live in the desert. Bedouins - means desert nomad Despised by everyone - savages
5. The Muqaddimah English: Ibn Khaldun's Introduction, also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun or the Prolegomena is a book written by the Maghrebian Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history. Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the philosophy of history or the social science of sociology demography, historiography or cultural history. and economics, The Muqaddimah also deals with Islamic theology, political theory and the natural sciences of biology and chemistry. Ibn Khaldun wrote the work in 1377 as the preface or first book of his planned world history, the Kitab al-Ibar but already in his lifetime it became regarded as an independent work.

5 Matching Questions

1. deindustrialization
2. Potosi
3. which class came to dominate european society after 1492
4. ibn al-haytham
5. Thomas Kuhn

1. a (1924-96) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, development of scientific disciplines is discontinuous, and at critical junctures mass changes occurred/paradigm view
2. b city in Peru that was one of the great mining centers in the sixteenth century New World. The Spanish crown was particularly interested in mining because it received one-fifth of all mining revenues
3. c process of social and economic change caused by removal of industry
4. d merchant- entrpreneurial class which acquired enormous wealth
5. e muslim mathematician who produced a book called Optics which revolutionized ideas about vision. he showed that people see objects because rays pass from the objects to the eyes, not vice versa

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. slave based industries and slave trade were crucial casual forces in british and french industrializations
   1. the "caribbean school of history" represented by CLR James, Eric Williams and many other scholars writing since the 1930s have forcefully made the following argument
   2. treaty of tordesillas
   3. What is precisely the overall argument of the author in this chapter?
   4. identify the dates Blaut suggests for the rise of capitalism in europe
2. 1492-1688
   1. identify the dates Blaut suggests for the rise of capitalism in europe
   2. What is precisely the overall argument of the author in this chapter?
   3. Price Revolution of 16th century
   4. Quantity Theory of Money
3. A mercantilist strategy for economic growth in which a country restricts imports in order to spur demand for locally produced goods.
   1. import substitution
   2. ibn al-shatir
   3. deindustrialization
   4. monetization
4. 13th century Syrian Arab from Damascus
   pioneered sci fi, from Syria; Arab physician who propsed the making of encyclopedia and medical writings and science fiction;
   1. ibn rushd
   2. ibn al-haytham
   3. ibn al-shatir
   4. ibn al-nafis
5. Rationalists. believed that human reason is more reliable than tradition.Originated in the 8th century in Basra (Iraq) when Wasil ibn Ata. left the teaching lessons of Hasan al-Basri after a theological dispute.
   1. mutazilites
   2. arthshastra
   3. ijtihad
   4. Muqaddimah

5 True/False Questions

1. Protocapitalism → city in Peru that was one of the great mining centers in the sixteenth century New World. The Spanish crown was particularly interested in mining because it received one-fifth of all mining revenues

   True        False

2. ibn al-shatir → 13th century Syrian Arab from Damascus
   pioneered sci fi, from Syria; Arab physician who propsed the making of encyclopedia and medical writings and science fiction;

   True        False

3. Minas Gerias → Source of gold, iron ore, coal (Southwestern Brazil) , The most important of the Portuguese trade forts was this in the heart of the gold-producing region.

   True        False

4. Arbitrage → The process of buying a good in one market at a low price and selling it in another market at a higher price

   True        False

5. physiocracy → The process of buying a good in one market at a low price and selling it in another market at a higher price

   True        False