Deck 14: Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

Question 1

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Ptolemy's Geography

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Question 2

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Marco Polo

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Question 3

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

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Question 4

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compass and astrolabe

Question 5

What were the most important long-term effects of European expansion on the peoples of the Americas?

Question 6

What role did disease play in facilitating the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas? In your opinion, would these conquests have been possible without epidemics that swept through the Americas in the wake of European settlement?

Question 7

How did the Columbia Exchange impact the Americas? What about Europe, Africa, and Asia?

Question 8

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The Travels of John Mandeville

Question 9

Compare and contrast mercantilism and capitalism. What are the most important differences between the two economic ideologies?

Question 10

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

Question 11

Why did the slave trade come to rely on the peoples of West Africa? What were the consequences for all parties involved?

Question 12

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Goa

Question 13

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Prester John

Question 14

How were the Spanish able to build, exploit, and govern an empire in the Americas?

Question 15

How did the British gain the upper hand in the competition to control Indian trade and commerce?

Question 16

What motives were behind European expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Question 17

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conquistadors

Question 18

How did European expansion affect China? How did the Chinese view European efforts to control and expand trade?

Question 19

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"God, glory, and gold"

Question 20

What developments helped facilitate European expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Question 21

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Amerigo Vespucci

Question 22

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Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 23

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Vasco da Gama and Calicut

Question 24

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the Inca and Pachakuti

Question 25

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Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma

Question 26

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the Gold Coast

Question 27

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Malacca

Question 28

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Middle Passage

Question 29

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Society of Friends

Question 30

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John Cabot

Question 31

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Ferdinand Magellan

Question 32

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Bartholomeu Dias

Question 33

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encomienda

Question 34

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Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 35

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viceroy

Question 36

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Francisco Pizarro

Question 37

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Afonso de Albuquerque

Question 38

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the Aztecs and Tenochtitlán

Question 39

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Christopher Columbus

Question 40

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Spice Islands

Question 41

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mestizos and mulattoes

Question 42

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Nagasaki and the Dutch

Question 43

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mercantilism

Question 44

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Batavia

Question 45

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Dutch East India Company

Question 46

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triangular trade

Question 47

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Mughal Empire

Question 48

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price revolution

Question 49

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Jesuits

Question 50

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inflation

Question 51

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Question 52

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Ming and Qing dynasties

Question 53

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Amsterdam Exchange

Question 54

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"Black Hole of Calcutta"

Question 55

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Lord Macartney and Emperor Qianlong

Question 56

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Robert Clive

Question 57

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Tokugawa shoguns

Question 58

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British East India Company

Question 59

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joint stock company

Question 60

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"sugar factories"

Question 61

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Gerardus Mercator

Question 62

What was the main provision of the Treaty of Tordesillas?

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

Question 63

Which event reopened the doors between Europe and east Asia in the thirteenth century?

A)The Black Death
B)The Reformation
C)The fall of the Ottomans
D)Muslim conquests
E)Mongol conquests

Question 64

Which explorer completed the first known circumnavigation of the earth?

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

Question 65

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Columbian Exchange

Question 66

Who was the Italian merchant whose tales of the court of Kublai Khan were popular in medieval Europe?

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

Question 67

Which major European disease caused high rates of mortality among the natives of the New World?

A)Syphilis
B)Yellow fever
C)Smallpox
D)Scurvy
E)Avian flu

Question 68

For which state did John Cabot, a Venetian, sail?

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

Question 69

What did Vasco da Gama hope to find in India?

A)The fountain of youth
B)Salt
C)Slaves
D)Precious stones
E)Spices

Question 70

What best explains the success of the Portuguese in building a maritime empire?

A)Guns and seamanship
B)Gold and faith
C)Portugal's growing population
D)Civil war in China
E)Spanish help

Question 71

Which conquistador conquered and looted the Inca Empire in 1531?

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

Question 72

In the early fifteenth century, Portuguese fleets explored the western coast of Africa in search of

A)spices.
B)gold.
C)salt.
D)tobacco.
E)silk.

Question 73

Which Portuguese state leader initiated the European age of exploration?

A)Vasco de Gama
B)Prince Henry the Navigator
C)Bartholomeu Dias
D)Francis Drake
E)Amerigo Vespucci

Question 74

What was the encomienda?

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

Question 75

Who produced a world map that was essential to European explorers in the late fifteenth century?

A)Aristotle
B)Prince Henry the Navigator
C)Ptolemy
D)Christopher Columbus
E)Hernán Cortés

Question 76

Which sea captain made the first direct voyage from Europe to India?

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

Question 77

Mayan civilization came to include much of

A)modern-day Canada.
B)the Pacific Coast of North America.
C)the Mississippi Valley.
D)Central America and southern Mexico.
E)South America.

Question 78

Where was the kingdom of Prester John supposed to have been located?

A)Africa
B)East Asia
C)South America
D)North America
E)Southeast Asia

Question 79

What best exemplified early Spanish exploration of and expansion in the New World?

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 landing at the Pacific coast of South America in 1530
E)Da Gama's arrival in India in 1498

Question 80

When Moctezuma first encountered the Spanish, he believed they were

A)Aztecs in disguise.
B)foreign spies.
C)representatives of a god.
D)Mayans.
E)punishment sent by the devil.