Deck 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market

Question 1

Discuss the European impact,positive and negative,on the native populations of Southeast Asia.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Compare and contrast the causes and consequences of the voyages of Zhenghe with those of Columbus.Speculate on how history might have be different had Zhenghe successfully navigated the Pacific to the coast of California.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Compare and contrast slavery in Africa before the sixteenth century to African slavery after the arrival of the Europeans.What are the continuities,if any,and what are the differences?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What were the possible factors that allowed some non-Western societies to resist or cope with the arrival of Westerners better than others? How did Alfonso I seek to use his common Christian faith to alleviate the impact of slavery on his subjects?

Question 5

How did technological advancements,the rise of stronger governments,and economic growth cause European societies to become involved in maritime expansion in the 1400s and 1500s? Why then?

Question 6

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Malacca

Question 7

Did "globalization" really begin in the sixteenth century? Why and/or why not? Give specific examples.

Question 8

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Marco Polo's Travels

Question 9

How did Spanish methods of dealing with their new territories in America affect the native populations there? Discuss and elaborate on the role of Bartolomé de la Casas in alleviating the aggressive policies of the Spanish toward the native populations

Question 10

How,and to what extent,did the arrival of Europeans influence the scope and conduct of the spice trade?

Question 11

How did the arrival of Islam change the previously Buddhist and Hindu societies of Southeast Asia?

Question 12

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"Christians and spices"

Question 13

Why was it Western Europe rather than China,the Muslim world,or some other non-Western society that effected the globalization era of the sixteenth century? What prevented China and the well-organized Islamic states from achieving an ascendancy?

Question 14

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Songhai

Question 15

Compare and contrast the impact of the European colonial nations in the Americas with the impact of the West in Southeast Asia.What are the similarities and what are the differences?

Question 16

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Sufism

Question 17

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Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 18

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Vasco da Gama

Question 19

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Paramesvara

Question 20

What geographical advantages did Western Europe have in its encounters with the non-Western world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? How did the Portuguese lead the way in exploration? What role did Prince Henry the Navigator play? How did imported eastern ideas and innovations spur the Portuguese advance?

Question 21

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Hernán Cortés

Question 22

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Moctezuma

Question 23

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Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 24

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Leo Africanus

Question 25

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Christopher Columbus

Question 26

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Hispaniola

Question 27

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sternpost rudder,compass,and astrolabe

Question 28

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John Cabot

Question 29

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Calicut

Question 30

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conquistador

Question 31

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"God,glory,and gold"

Question 32

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Francisco Pizarro

Question 33

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Timbuktu

Question 34

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portolani

Question 35

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Amerigo Vespucci

Question 36

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caravels

Question 37

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the Gold Coast

Question 38

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encomienda system

Question 39

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Pedro Cabral

Question 40

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Afonso de Albuquerque

Question 41

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mulattoes and mestizos

Question 42

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Batavia

Question 43

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Ferdinand Magellan

Question 44

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the Slave Coast

Question 45

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Gorée

Question 46

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Boers

Question 47

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Bartolomé de Las Casas

Question 48

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Massachusetts Bay Company

Question 49

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British East India Company

Question 50

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Alfonso I

Question 51

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manioc

Question 52

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batik

Question 53

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Dutch West India Company and Dutch East India Company

Question 54

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Middle Passage

Question 55

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Kilwa,Sofala,and Mombasa

Question 56

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Afrikaans

Question 57

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Cape of Good Hope

Question 58

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cane culture in America

Question 59

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the VOC

Question 60

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Mwene Mutapa

Question 61

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Shwedagon Pagoda

Question 62

Which of the following accurately pairs Spanish conquistadors with the New World empires they destroyed?

A) Pizarro and the Aztecs; de Soto and the Inka.
B) Magellan and the Inka; Albuquerque and the Iroquois.
C) Cortés and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Inka.
D) de Soto and the Aztecs; Cortés and the Inka.
E) de Soto and the Inka; Cortés and the Aztecs.

Question 63

One of the earliest West African states to become Muslim was

A) the Zanj.
B) Zimbabwe.
C) Axum.
D) Mali.
E) Kush.

Question 64

The Cape of Good Hope was rounded in 1487 by

A) Abram Voorhies.
B) Vasco da Gama.
C) Ferdinand Magellan.
D) Bartolomeu Dias.
E) Henry the Navigator.

Question 65

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Buddhist and Islamic kingship models

Question 66

As a result of the publications of Bartolomé de Las Casas,

A) Amerindian rights were recognized and respected.
B) the encomienda system was established.
C) Amerindians were more maltreated than before.
D) the Spanish government was more attentive to the needs of the native populations.
E) a new route to the Indies was discovered.

Question 67

Which of the following is not true concerning European forays into the New World?

A) Christopher Columbus believed he had reached Asia.
B) John Cabot explored the coast of New England on a voyage sponsored by Henry VII.
C) Christopher Columbus explored along the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
D) Pedro Cabral discovered South America by accident.
E) Vespucci's many published letters describing the geography of the New World caused people to call the area "America."

Question 68

Christopher Columbus

A) was an escaped criminal from Munich when he sailed to the Americas.
B) was of Genoese origin, although he gained fame in the service of the Portuguese king.
C) was the brother of Hessin Cortes.
D) converted to Islam on his forty-third birthday.
E) believed that Asia was larger, and closer to Europe by water, than people then thought.

Question 69

By the early 1400s,a growing percentage of the Asian spice trade was being transported

A) by camel caravans across Arabia.
B) in European ships, particularly Dutch and Portuguese.
C) in Muslim ships.
D) in Chinese ships as evidenced by the voyages of Zheng He.
E) across the Silk Road from China.

Question 70

All of the following were true of the Portuguese foray into overseas trade except that they

A) were unable over time to maintain their position in the Spice Islands.
B) employed the standard methods of peaceful competition that existed before they ventured into those new foreign regions.
C) gained complete control of the spice trade between the East and Europe for a brief time.
D) defeated their competition in the spice trade through the use of overwhelming force until they, in turn, were similarly overwhelmed.
E) had an advantage because of Portugal's location on the Atlantic seaboard.

Question 71

Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages for all of the following except

A) there was a potential for economic gain through increased world trade.
B) some desired to spread Christianity to other parts of the world.
C) a spirit of adventure.
D) fear that Islam would occupy the rest of the world if Christendom did not.
E) intellectual curiosity.

Question 72

Western historians customarily regard this as the crucial point in opening the trade routes to the East.

A) the travels of Marco Polo
B) the voyages of Vasco de Gama
C) the discovery of the New World by Columbus
D) Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe
E) Prince Henry, the Navigator's establishment of a school for navigators

Question 73

By the twelfth century,a great center of Islamic learning in West Africa was

A) Great Zimbabwe.
B) Timbuktu.
C) Mansa Musa.
D) Niger.
E) Zanj.

Question 74

The major impetus for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia came in the early fifteenth century with the establishment of this sultanate.

A) Malacca.
B) Tumasik.
C) Ayuthaya.
D) Palembang.
E) Sulawesi.

Question 75

An influential cargo brought back to Portugal from the West African coastal voyages in 1441 was

A) silver.
B) gold.
C) slaves.
D) spices.
E) ivory.

Question 76

Brazil was under the rule of the

A) French.
B) Spanish.
C) English.
D) Portuguese.
E) Dutch.

Question 77

The Portuguese leaders who first landed at Calicut and seized the port of Malacca were,respectively,

A) Jaime Cardose and Pedro Martinez Munoa.
B) Ferdinando Colan and Alhambra da Fonseca.
C) Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque.
D) Henry da Bruscia and Eduardo da Estabano.
E) Juan Montillo and Jorge Sikada Maio.

Question 78

Prince Henry

A) was the first European to get to the source of the Zambezi.
B) established a school for naval gunners in Portsmouth, England in 1438.
C) was depicted as the "epitome" of greed by Bartolomeu Dias.
D) established a school for navigators in Portugal in 1419.
E) became king of England in 1628.

Question 79

Under the encomienda system,New World natives were

A) forced to accept Islam.
B) permitted to retain control over their local lands.
C) subjected to exploitation and harsh treatment by the Dutch.
D) supposed to be protected by the Spanish.
E) taken to Spain to be used as laborers.

Question 80

The Treaty of Tordesillas

A) divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between the English and the French.
B) divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between Spain and Portugal.
C) gave the English the eastern route around the Cape of Good Hope.
D) gave the French the eastern route around the Cape of Good Hope.
E) ended the Hundred Years' War.