Deck 2: Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

Question 1

define the following term:
Prester John

Answer 1

Answers will vary.

Question 2

define the following term:
"God, glory, and gold"

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

define the following term:
Ptolemy's Geography

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

define the following term:
Marco Polo

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

define the following term:
The Travels of John Mandeville

Question 14

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

Question 15

define the following term:
Goa

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

define the following term:
conquistadors

Question 19

define the following term:
compass and astrolabe

Question 20

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

Question 21

define the following term:
Christopher Columbus

Question 22

define the following term:
Spice Islands

Question 23

define the following term:
Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 24

define the following term:
Society of Friends

Question 25

define the following term:
Ferdinand Magellan

Question 26

define the following term:
the Inca and Pachakuti

Question 27

define the following term:
Vasco da Gama and Calicut

Question 28

define the following term:
Bartholomeu Dias

Question 29

define the following term:
Amerigo Vespucci

Question 30

define the following term:
the Gold Coast

Question 31

define the following term:
Malacca

Question 32

define the following term:
encomienda

Question 33

define the following term:
Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 34

define the following term:
Middle Passage

Question 35

define the following term:
John Cabot

Question 36

define the following term:
Afonso de Albuquerque

Question 37

define the following term:
the Aztecs and Tenochtitlán

Question 38

define the following term:
viceroy

Question 39

define the following term:
Francisco Pizarro

Question 40

define the following term:
Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma

Question 41

define the following term:
triangular trade

Question 42

define the following term:
price revolution

Question 43

define the following term:
Mughal Empire

Question 44

define the following term:
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Question 45

define the following term:
Jesuits

Question 46

define the following term:
Dutch East India Company

Question 47

define the following term:
"Black Hole of Calcutta"

Question 48

define the following term:
Ming and Qing dynasties

Question 49

define the following term:
"sugar factories"

Question 50

define the following term:
Lord Macartney and Emperor Qianlong

Question 51

define the following term:
British East India Company

Question 52

define the following term:
mestizos and mulattoes

Question 53

define the following term:
Batavia

Question 54

define the following term:
joint stock company

Question 55

define the following term:
Robert Clive

Question 56

define the following term:
mercantilism

Question 57

define the following term:
Nagasaki and the Dutch

Question 58

define the following term:
inflation

Question 59

define the following term:
Tokugawa shoguns

Question 60

define the following term:
Amsterdam Exchange

Question 61

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.

Question 62

define the following term:
Columbian Exchange

Question 63

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 64

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 65

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 66

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 67

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 68

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 69

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 70

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

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

Question 71

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 72

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 73

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 74

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 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 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 77

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 78

define the following term:
Gerardus Mercator

Question 79

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 80

Which conquistador conquered and looted the Inca Empire in 1531?

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