APWH Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections

Question 1

The Age of Exploration is followed by the Enlightenment

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Slaves maintained aspects of their culture and brought them to the Americas

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

The first circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1522 by...

Accepted Answer

Magellan's crew.

Question 4

The expansion of __________ also saw an increase in the slave trade.

Accepted Answer

Cash Crops

Question 5

The Ottoman Empire often pulled _______ into their army.

Accepted Answer

non-Turks

Question 6

Silver was being exported from what two countries

Accepted Answer

Japan and Spanish America

Question 7

The Dutch policy in Indonesia was to...

Accepted Answer

control the production of spices.

Question 8

In the end, Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because...

Accepted Answer

it was a small country with a small population.

Question 9

Who did NOT participate in Indian Ocean Trade?

Accepted Answer

American merchants

Question 10

The initial success of Spanish transoceanic voyages ....

Accepted Answer

Encouraged other European countries

Question 11

Spanish used forced Christianity as a way to control the native populations of the Americas

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

One of the long term effects of the silver trade on Spain was

Accepted Answer

inflation in the country

Question 13

Colonization had a _____ effect of the environment.

Accepted Answer

Negative

Question 14

Another effect of Colonization was ....

Accepted Answer

the creation of new economic and political elites

Question 15

The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was...

Accepted Answer

Manila.

Question 16

In the long term, the Columbian exchange...

Accepted Answer

increased population b/c of the spread of new food crops.

Question 17

The reconquista came to an end in 1492 when...

Accepted Answer

Muslim kingdom of Granada fell to Spanish Catholic forces.

Question 18

Which of the following was NOT one of the main inspirations for European exploration?

Accepted Answer

the desire to conquer China and India

Question 19

The profitable merchandise that Vasco da Gama purchased in India was made up of...

Accepted Answer

pepper and cinnamon.

Question 20

What was the Ottoman Practice of Devshirme

Accepted Answer

Recruiting Christian boys to serve in the military and government

Question 21

Which of the following is a syncretic religion practiced in the Americas after colonization?

Accepted Answer

Vodun

Question 22

Ferdinand Magellan established a trade route between Mexico and...

Accepted Answer

the Philippines.

Question 23

From 1500 to 1800, the largest contingent of migrants consisted of

Accepted Answer

enslaved Africans.

Question 24

Which of the following is responsible for transforming the Global Economy?

Accepted Answer

Silver

Question 25

Christianity was unable to spread in Asia the same way it spread in the Americas because

Accepted Answer

powerful states already existed in Asia

Question 26

The Portuguese viewed the Atlantic Ocean islands as the perfect location for the cultivation of...

Accepted Answer

sugarcane.

Question 27

What made the development of Atlantic and Indian Ocean trade similar?

Accepted Answer

understanding of wind patterns and currents

Question 28

The VOC was the...

Accepted Answer

United East India Company.

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT an example of forced labor

Accepted Answer

feudal obligations to a lord

Question 30

Which of the following cities was NOT a Portuguese trading post?

Accepted Answer

Bombay

Question 31

When he reached ________, Columbus sent delegates to seek the court of the emperor of China.

Accepted Answer

Cuba

Question 32

What is a continuity seen in global trade during this time period?

Accepted Answer

demand for Asian luxury goods

Question 33

Rulers of this time period used art and architecture to legitimize their rule

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

The economic policy of Mercantilism sought to have more ___ than _____

Accepted Answer

exports, imports

Question 35

The first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope was...

Accepted Answer

Dias

Question 36

Which was NOT a reason for the European interest in finding a maritime trade route?

Accepted Answer

Mongol domination stopped trade along the silk roads

Question 37

Which of the following is NOT a new technology from this time period?

Accepted Answer

Electricity

Question 38

Following in Chinese footsteps, Japan and Korea adopted foreign policies that

Accepted Answer

regulated interactions with foreigners

Question 39

Syncretic forms of religion developed because of cultural connections

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

The Portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was...

Accepted Answer

Da Gama

Question 41

The Columbian Exchange was

Accepted Answer

the exchange of crops, animals, peoples and diseases from East and West

Question 42

__________ were state run companies that helped facilitate trade during this time period.

Accepted Answer

Joint-stock Companies

Question 43

One of the major effects of Colonization on native peoples was

Accepted Answer

population decrease due to disease and violence

Question 44

Under Spanish rule of the Philippines, the native population...

Accepted Answer

was pressured to convert to Roman Catholicism.

Question 45

Christopher Columbus’s decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on...

Accepted Answer

miscalculation of the distance from Canary Islands to Japan.

Question 46

Russian merchants and explorers began the expansion into Siberia in the quest for...

Accepted Answer

furs.

Question 47

The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was...

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 48

Many explorers in the early years of this period were looking for ....

Accepted Answer

routes to Asia

Question 49

Most of the actual exploration of the Pacific Ocean was carried out by the...

Accepted Answer

English.

APWH Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections

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APWH Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections

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