An earlier idea about early modern intercultural relationships, now undergoing interpretive change, concluded that
the "impact of the East" and the "response" of the West best described the contacts.
Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages for all of the following except
fear that Islam would occupy the rest of the world if Christendom did not.
Prince Henry
established a school for navigators in 1419
An Influential cargo brought back to Portugal from the West African coastal voyages in 1441 was
slaves.
The Cape of Good Hope was rounded in 1487 by
Bartolomeo Dias.
The Portuguese leaders who first landed at Calicut and seized the port of Malacca were, respectively
Vasco da Gama and Afonso da Albuquerque.
All of the following were true of the Portuguese foray into overseas trade except that they
employed the standard methods of peaceful competition that existed before they ventured into these new foreign regions.
Christopher Columbus
believed that Asia was larger, and closer to Europe by water, that people then thought.
In his famous voyage of 1492, Columbus explored parts of
Hispaniola.
Which of the following is not true concerning European forays into the New World?
Christopher Columbus explored along the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided the "new"areas discovered by Europeans beween Spain and Portugal.
Which of the following accurately pairs Splanish conquistadors with the New World empires they destroyed?
Cortes and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Incas.
Brazil was under the rule of the
Portuguese
Under the encomienda system,, New World natives were
supposed to be protected by the Spanish.
As a result of the Publications of Barolome de las Casas
The government in Spain began to pay more attention to the needs of the native populations in the New World.
European links to the rest of the world included the
trip of the Polo family to East Asia in the late thirteenth century.
As part of the formal administration system for their new empire, the Spanish created a board of trade to supervise all economic matters related to the New World. This board was known as the
Casa de Contrataction.
All of the following were true of Spanish rule in the New World except
audiencias served as the main military officers of the kings.
All of the following are correct except as a result of their empires in the New World and Asia, the
English seized Greenland from Denmark.
Portuguese control of the spice trade was ended by
the establishment of the British and Dutch East India Companies.
The Dutch and Portuguese
were bitter trade rivals in Southeast Asia until the Dutch won out.
Which of the following accurately describes European Colonial development in the New World?
The English took New Netherlands from the Dutch and changed its name to New York, and later the French lost most of their Canadian holdings to the English.
Which of the following was an example of successful English colonization produced by a combination of religious and economic motives?
Massachusetts Bay.
Developments that helped Europeans expand their influence on the oceans included all except
the construction of gigantic ships, even larger than those employed by the Ming's Zhenghe.
In Spain's New World Empire
the Spanish monarchy, by special agreement with the papacy, had extensive powers over Church activities in the Americas.
Which of the following was the most important reason for the massive growth of the African slave trade in the sixteenth century?
intense labor needs created by the development of sugar growing in the New World
All of the following are true about European contacts with Africa except that
the Boer and San were responsible for keeping Europeans away from the Cape of Good Hope.
Elements underlying the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade included all except
the native American population completely died out in Mexico as the result of smallpox.
The African slave trade
involved the forcible movement of possibly more than twelve million African slaves overseas.
Which of the following most accurately depicts life expectancy in the sixteenth century?
Europeans' chances of living longer impoved if they did not go to Africa or the West Indies.
In regard to the African slave trade, it can be said that
until the eighteenth century, it was cheaper to simply replace slaves than to breed them.
As a result of European expansion into Africa,
internal conflict among native African groups was intensidied.
By 1700
Spain was in decline, as gold and silver production in its American colonies diminished.
Dutch colonial efforts were
highly successful in Southeast Asia, and particularly of the island of Java.
It is argued that in an effort to respond to the development of European influence in Africa,
political alliances between local kingdoms sometimes developed, often for economic reasons.
The Spanish base of operations in Southeast Asia was established in
the Philippines.
The European power that emerged triumphant in the Indonesian archipelago, and took over virtually the entire region by the end of the eighteenth century, was
the Netherlands.
On the Southeast Asian mainland, all of the following cohesive monarchies resisted foreign encroachment except in
Bangladesh.
Southeast Asia, by the 1700s,
saw Islamic influence spread from the Malay Peninsula to the northern coasts of Sumatra and Java.
Which of the following statements accurately describes the reaction of the states of Southeast Asia to the pressures created by the Europeans in the seventeenth century?
The states on the mainland were more successful in maintaining their independence than the island states were.
The VOC
had ten times more capital than the British West India Company.
Which of the following products attracted the greatest European interest in Southeast Asia in the period between 1500 and 1800?
cloves and pepper
New religions coming into Southeast Asia
often were somewhat altered by new converts, who blended their traditional beliefs with the new doctrines
Life in Southeast Asia in the seventeenth century was probably better than it was in other parts of Asia during the same time period because
the region's geography provided soils that produced many beneficial fruits.
Southeast Asia produced all of the following for export in the 1700s except
steel ingots.
Ties between religion and kingship in Southeast Asia
included Buddhist kings, Javanese kings, Vietnamese emperors, and Islamic sultans.
The Javanese kingship model
included a semi-divine monarch until Islamic influence weakened the semi-divine perception.
Foreign trade in Southeast Asia was
mainly involved in the export of raw materials.
Life in Southeast Asia was
more favorable for women than elsewhere in Asia
The Thai capital and one of the finest cities in Asia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century was
Ayuthaya.