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European disease had little impact on the native Americans. 

Merchant capitalists circumvented the powerful guilds that controlled manufacturing in Europe to obtain the merchandise that they needed through the ______________ system. This system allowed rural farm families to manufacture products that the merchants needed to trade.    

The Chinese built massive ships and had the technological knowledge to journey widely to advertise the glory and power of the Chinese Emperor.  As Confucians however, they did not have the restless and curious missionizing mindset of the Europeans.  

_________________________ accomplished  a degree of religious tolerance between the Hindus and the Muslims in the Mughal Empire by abolishing laws that discriminated against Hindus, promoting conversations between religions, and focusing on building and Indian empire rather than religious supremacy.  

The emperors of both China and Japan were extremely powerful.  They ruled absolutely as the Sons of Heaven.

The Northern European Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance because it was influenced by the Reformations and linked to issues of religious reform.  

All of the following factors contributed to the collapse of mercantilism in Europe EXCEPT (Select the answer that is false.)    

The long-standing subservience of women in China, combined with the accumulation of wealth brought by the commercial revolution, led to the practice of foot-binding.  By making women dysfunctional, a man could prove that he was affluent enough to not need his women to work.  

The Glorious Revolution in England (1688) accomplished all of the following EXCEPT (Select the answer that is false.)

The economic system that accompanied European colonialism is called ______________________________.  In this system the profit of the state was most important and individual profit was secondary.  The colonies existed to enrich the mother country.  It put severe restrictions on a rapidly expanding global market and would lead to a break between wealthy commoners and the absolute monarchs.