WHII - Topic 11: Expansion, Exploration, & Encounters

Which is a business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits?

Why did the colony of New France grow slowly?

Unlike the Spanish and the British, the French did not enslave Native Americans.

How did the Renaissance contribute to the Age of Exploration?

Which is the global transfer of plants, animals&diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas?

Which is a member of a nonviolent religious group whose beliefs blend elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam?

Which is a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry?

Between 25 and 30 million Africans were shipped to the Americas against their will.

Which statement is true about Portuguese exploration?

Which is a type of Japanese drama in which music, dance, and mime are used to present stories?

Explorer Amerigo Vespucci concluded that the land discovered by Columbus was not part of Asia.

The first country to launch large-scale voyages of exploration was Spain.

Some Native Americans helped Cortés because

Which is a beautiful tomb in Agra, India, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal?

Which of the following was one result of the Treaty of Tordesillas?

The Spanish colonial economy was based largely on

The Tokugawa lost control of Japan to the daimyo causing civil war.

Which statement is true in the context of early European exploration?

Which is a policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order?

Which is the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas?

Which is an economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad?

Which factor was instrumental in causing the drastic decline of Buddhism as a major religion in India?

The economy of New France was based on

The population of Native Americans in Spanish colonies dropped by more than

Which is a conflict between Britain and France for control of territory in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763?

How did Tokugawa Ieyasu pacify Japan after years of internal divisions and warfare?

How did China change following the voyages of Zheng He?

What was an effect of the Columbian Exchange?

Mercantilists believed that parent country’s main purpose was to benefit its colonies.

The Pilgrims established a colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.

Which is a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies ?

Planters in the Americas began to use African slaves for labor because

Which of the following was a conquistador?

Which statement characterizes Japanese commercial policies after 1639?

Slaves were people who worked for a set period in exchange for passage to the Americas.

The ultimate goal of the early Portuguese explorers was to

Which religion includes a special initiation ceremony known as the Amrit?

Which is a Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables?

Which is a Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of Samurai?

Which statement about the slave trade is true?

European traders seeking access to Chinese markets would be wisest to follow the example of