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

Question 1

What factors made control of the Indian Ocean difficult for the Portuguese during the 16^th and 17^th centuries?

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 2

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Question 3

How did Spanish methods of dealing with their new territories in America affect the native populations there?

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Question 4

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 5

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?

Question 6

Compare and contrast the causes and consequences of the voyages of Zhenghe with those of Columbus.

Question 7

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Malacca

Question 8

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

Question 9

Is morality a good measure for historical phenomena¾why or why not? Explain your position with concrete examples.

Question 10

Why was it Western Europe rather than China,the Muslim world,or some other non-Western society who effected the globalization era of the sixteenth century?

Question 11

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

Question 12

What were/are the pros and cons of European discoveries and conquests of the Americas? How do historians view this process in a wider context?

Question 13

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

Question 14

Describe the most important voyages of exploration undertaken by Europeans during the 16^th and 17^th centuries.

Question 15

What geographical advantages did Western Europe have in their encounters with the non-Western world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Question 16

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 17

What were the possible factors that allowed some non-western societies to resist or cope with the arrival of Westerners better than others? Give examples.

Question 18

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

Question 19

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Paramesvara

Question 20

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Vasco da Gama

Question 21

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Calicut

Question 22

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Bali and Hinduism

Question 23

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The Tears of the Indians

Question 24

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the Gold Coast

Question 25

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Marco Polo's Travels

Question 26

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Christopher Columbus

Question 27

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Creole

Question 28

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Afonso da Albuquerque

Question 29

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Zhenghe

Question 30

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Songhai

Question 31

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"Christians and spices"

Question 32

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portolani

Question 33

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Columbian Exchange

Question 34

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Mestizos

Question 35

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stern-post rudder,compass,and astrolabe

Question 36

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"God,glory,and gold"

Question 37

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Mulatto

Question 38

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Leo Africanus

Question 39

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Timbuktu

Question 40

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conquistador

Question 41

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Kilwa,Sofala,and Mombasa

Question 42

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Hispaniola

Question 43

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New Netherlands

Question 44

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Dutch West India Company and Dutch East India Company

Question 45

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Hernan Cortes

Question 46

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Massachusetts Bay Company

Question 47

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Cape of Good Hope

Question 48

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Francisco Pizzaro

Question 49

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the VOC

Question 50

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Moctezuma

Question 51

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John Cabot

Question 52

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British East India Company

Question 53

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Mwene Metapa

Question 54

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Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 55

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Ferdinand Magellan

Question 56

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Boers

Question 57

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encomienda system

Question 58

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Pedro Cabral

Question 59

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Amerigo Vespucci

Question 60

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Bartolome de Las Casas

Question 61

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cane culture in America

Question 62

Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages for all of the following reasons 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)they had developed confidence from improved cartography,navigational methods,and ship designs.
D)fear than Islam would occupy the rest of the world if Christendom did not.
E)knowledge of wind patterns in the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 63

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Bantus

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

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Batavia

Question 66

One of the earliest West African states to become Muslim was

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

Question 67

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 68

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"white people's diseases"

Question 69

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 70

What was the name of the last great state to occupy the Niger River region in Africa prior to European arrival in the region?

A)Songhai
B)Mali
C)Ghana
D)Kush
E)Zimbabwe

Question 71

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Slave trade (entrepots and scale)

Question 72

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Theravada Buddhism

Question 73

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Thai and Angkor

Question 74

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 75

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 76

After its founding in the 12^th century,the city of ____ became a great center of learning and trade in the Niger River region.

A)Alexandria
B)Kilwa
C)Timbuktu
D)Dakar
E)Niger

Question 77

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Afrikaans

Question 78

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Middle Passage

Question 79

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Javanese and Islamic kingship models

Question 80

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the Slave Coast