Deck 14: europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

Question 1

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compass and astrolabe

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Question 2

Given its relatively small population and lack of obvious resources, why was the Dutch Republic so successful in establishing a profitable overseas empire?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What role did religion play as a motivation in the age of discovery? Was it as important a motive as economics? Give examples.

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Question 4

Was it sheer chance or luck that allowed Britain to gain control of much of India, or were there other political, social, and economic factors which gave Britain an advantage over the French, Dutch, Portuguese, and other potential European rivals?

Question 5

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The Travels of John Mandeville

Question 6

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"God, glory, and gold"

Question 7

Compare mercantilism to capitalism.

Question 8

Examine the relationship between Japan and Europe from 1600 to approximately 1850.

Question 9

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Marco Polo

Question 10

What accounted for the long-term failure of Native-Americans to stave off European encroachments?

Question 11

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Ptolemy's Geography

Question 12

What role did private investment and initiative play in the development of European imperialism. Give specific examples.

Question 13

Compare and contrast Portuguese and Spanish reasons and methods of exploration and expansion.

Question 14

What correlation is there between overseas expansion and economic, social, and political development in Europe?

Question 15

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Prester John

Question 16

Why did the slave trade come to rely on the peoples of West Africa, and with what consequences for all parties involved?

Question 17

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lateen sails and square rigs

Question 18

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portolani

Question 19

Assume that you are a noblemen and also a merchant. Of the following countries, England, France, Prussia, or Poland, which country would you prefer to live in? Why?

Question 20

Discuss the Columbian exchange. What was "exchanged" and who gained the most?

Question 21

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John Cabot

Question 22

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Afonso de Albuquerque

Question 23

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Question 24

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Christopher Columbus

Question 25

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Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 26

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Spice Islands

Question 27

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slave trade and the Middle Passage

Question 28

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the Aztecs and Tenochtitlan

Question 29

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Hernan Cortés and Moctezuma

Question 30

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the Gold Coast

Question 31

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Francisco Pizarro

Question 32

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the Inca and Pachakuti

Question 33

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Bartholomeu Dias

Question 34

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Boers and Capetown

Question 35

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the viceroy and audiencias

Question 36

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Ferdinand Magellan

Question 37

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Malacca

Question 38

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Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 39

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Vasco da Gama and Calicut

Question 40

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encomienda

Question 41

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Batavia

Question 42

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Nagasaki and the Dutch

Question 43

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"Black Hole of Calcutta"

Question 44

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Dutch East India Company

Question 45

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Lord Macartney and Emperor Qianlong

Question 46

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Robert Clive

Question 47

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British East India Company

Question 48

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Tokugawa shoguns

Question 49

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Samuel de Champlain

Question 50

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Britain's Navigation Acts

Question 51

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joint-stock trading companies

Question 52

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Mughal Empire

Question 53

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the triangular trade

Question 54

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mestizos and mulattoes

Question 55

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inflation

Question 56

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House of Fugger

Question 57

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Ming and Qing dynasties

Question 58

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the asiento

Question 59

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"sugar factories"

Question 60

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mercantilism

Question 61

The Italian merchant whose tales of the court of Kublai Khan popularized China in Europe was

A) Daniel Defoe.
B) Amerigo Vespucci.
C) Marco Polo.
D) Leonardo Bruni.
E) Jacques Cour.

Question 62

John Cabot, a Venetian, sailed for

A) France.
B) Venice.
C) Spain.
D) Portugal.
E) England.

Question 63

The first known circumnavigation of the earth is associated with

A) Amerigo Vespucci.
B) Ferdinand Magellan.
C) John Cabot.
D) Christopher Columbus.
E) Vasco da Gama.

Question 64

In the 1440s, among the first profits the Portuguese derived from their maritime exploration and returning ships came from the sale of

A) silver.
B) copper.
C) pepper.
D) precious stones.
E) African slaves.

Question 65

The conquistador who conquered and looted the Inca Empire in 1531 was

A) Cortez.
B) de Soto.
C) Coronado.
D) de las Casas.
E) Pizarro.

Question 66

The Aztec empire, which Cortez conquered in 1519, was located

A) in the Peruvian Andes.
B) on Cuba.
C) in central Mexico.
D) in southern Florida.
E) on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Question 67

Encomienda were

A) a Spanish system devised to collect tribute from natives and to use their labor.
B) Spanish officials who supervised local industries
C) taxes levied on the colonists by the Spanish government.
D) a hybrid tortilla made partly from maize and partly from wheat flower.
E) mission schools set up to educate the Indians.

Question 68

The sea captain who first made a sea voyage directly from Europe to India was

A) Bartholomeu Dias.
B) Ferdinand Magellan.
C) Francis Drake.
D) Vasco da Gama.
E) Amerigo Vespucci

Question 69

The development of a Portuguese maritime empire encompassing Malacca and the Malay Peninsula was achieved, in part, through

A) ruthless and murderous attacks on Arab settlers in the region.
B) the negotiation of four commercial treaties with Arab traders.
C) scrupulous business practices with local residents.
D) massive bribery to local Arab overlords.
E) peaceful diplomacy between equals.

Question 70

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Gerardus Mercator

Question 71

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided

A) the Spice Islands between Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
B) South Africa between the English and the Dutch.
C) the New World between Spain and Portugal.
D) the North Atlantic between England and France.
E) the South Pacific between Spain and the Dutch Republic.

Question 72

Portugal became the early leader in European expansion largely through

A) direct trade policies with China.
B) defeating Muslim opposition in establishing trade opportunities with India.
C) spending all its wealth on ships and manpower.
D) winning the race of exploration to the New World.
E) defeating the Spanish and becoming the first European nation to colonize Africa.

Question 73

The major European disease that resulted in high rates of mortality among the natives of the New World was

A) syphilis.
B) yellow fever.
C) smallpox.
D) scurvy.
E) avian flu.

Question 74

The primary motive for European exploration during the Renaissance was

A) social, to relieve the population pressure on Europe.
B) religious, to spread the Gospel.
C) psychological, the quest for new experiences to transform a dull existence.
D) military, to provide new bases for an army.
E) economic, the desire for precious metals and new areas for trade.

Question 75

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the Columbian Exchange

Question 76

The Mesoamerica civilization which existed at the time of European exploration was the

A) Maya.
B) Inca.
C) Toltec.
D) Aztec.
E) Zapotec.

Question 77

The religious crusading motive for exploration was strongest in

A) Spain and Portugal.
B) Florence and Venice.
C) the Byzantine Empire.
D) England and Scotland.
E) France and the Low Countries.

Question 78

Prince Henry the Navigator established the first school for mariners at his court in

A) France.
B) Portugal.
C) Spain.
D) Amsterdam.
E) Naples.

Question 79

The Pole Star as a navigational device was useless

A) in the Western Hemisphere.
B) north of the equator.
C) south of the equator.
D) in the north Pacific Ocean.
E) in North America.

Question 80

Spanish expansion and exploration of the New World was best exemplified by

A) the first circumnavigation of the globe by Amerigo Vespucci.
B) the conquest of the Aztec Empire by Cortés.
C) the conquest of the Incas by Magellan.
D) Pizarro's rounding of South America in 1519.
E) da Gama's arrival in India in 1498.