Question 1

What was "exchanged" in the Columbian exchange, and who gained the most?

Accepted Answer

The Columbian Exchange refers to the wid

Question 2

The first known circumnavigation of the earth is associated with

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

define the following term:
-John Cabot

Accepted Answer

John Cabot, born Giovanni Caboto, was an

Question 4

define the following term:
-Francisco Pizarro

Accepted Answer

Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquist

Question 5

The European nation that took over the spice trade from Portugal was

Accepted Answer

A) Venice. 
B) England. 
C) Spain. 
D) France. 
E) the Dutch Republic. 
A) Venice. 
B) England. 
C) Spain. 
D) France. 
E) the Dutch Republic.

Question 6

define the following term:
-the triangular trade

Accepted Answer

The triangular trade was a historical tr

Question 7

Spanish commercial power in the Americas reached its apex in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, after fighting off the challenges from Britain and the Netherlands.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

define the following term:
-the viceroy and audiencias

Accepted Answer

The viceroy and audiencias were importan

Question 9

How would you characterize the indigenous empires present in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans? What were their strengths, and what were their weaknesses?

Accepted Answer

The indigenous empires present in the Am

Question 10

Catholic Christianity failed to take root in China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because

Accepted Answer

A) of opposition from Jesuit missionaries. 
B) of opposition from Protestant missionaries. 
C) of opposition by the pope to the practice of ancestor worship. 
D) the antipathy of the Chinese to all spiritual doctrines. 
E) of the success of Hindu missionaries, who were closer to Chinese Buddhism in tradition. 
A) of opposition from Jesuit missionaries. 
B) of opposition from Protestant missionaries. 
C) of opposition by the pope to the practice of ancestor worship. 
D) the antipathy of the Chinese to all spiritual doctrines. 
E) of the success of Hindu missionaries, who were closer to Chinese Buddhism in tradition.

Question 11

define the following term:
-lateen sails and square rigs

Accepted Answer

Lateen sails and square rigs are two dif

Question 12

What was not part of the Columbian exchange?

Accepted Answer

A) Potatoes from Europe and olive trees from the New World. 
B) Horses and cattle from Europe and corn from the New World. 
C) Gunpowder from Europe and tobacco from the New World. 
D) Smallpox from Europe and gold and silver from the New World. 
E) Wheat from Europe and tomatoes from the New World. 
A) Potatoes from Europe and olive trees from the New World. 
B) Horses and cattle from Europe and corn from the New World. 
C) Gunpowder from Europe and tobacco from the New World. 
D) Smallpox from Europe and gold and silver from the New World. 
E) Wheat from Europe and tomatoes from the New World.

Question 13

In order to obtain slaves for sale to Europeans, local African rulers frequently raided defenseless villages in search of unsuspecting victims.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

define the following term:
-Prester John

Accepted Answer

Prester John is a legendary Christian ru

Question 15

Tokugawa Ieyasu established the longest-lasting of the Japanese shogunates, which retained power from the early sixteenth century until 1868.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

According to mercantilist theory, the prosperity of a nation depended on a plentiful supply of

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A) slaves. 
B) colonies. 
C) agricultural surplus. 
D) bullion. 
E) aristocrats. 
A) slaves. 
B) colonies. 
C) agricultural surplus. 
D) bullion. 
E) aristocrats.

Question 17

define the following term:
-encomienda

Accepted Answer

The encomienda was a labor system that w

Question 18

The thirteen colonies in British North America were directly controlled by the British Board of Trade, the Royal Council, and Parliament, with no colonial legislatures.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

"God, glory, and gold" is a phrase often

Question 20

In what ways did European expansion and commercialism alter the socioeconomic hierarchy, and how did they challenge older values and structures of authority? Did those alterations impact all of Europe in the same way?

Accepted Answer

European expansion and commercialism alt

Exam 14: Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

What was "exchanged" in the Columbian exchange, and who gained the most?

The first known circumnavigation of the earth is associated with

define the following term: -John Cabot

define the following term: -Francisco Pizarro

The European nation that took over the spice trade from Portugal was

define the following term: -the triangular trade

Spanish commercial power in the Americas reached its apex in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, after fighting off the challenges from Britain and the Netherlands.

define the following term: -the viceroy and audiencias

How would you characterize the indigenous empires present in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans? What were their strengths, and what were their weaknesses?

Catholic Christianity failed to take root in China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because

define the following term: -lateen sails and square rigs

What was not part of the Columbian exchange?

In order to obtain slaves for sale to Europeans, local African rulers frequently raided defenseless villages in search of unsuspecting victims.

define the following term: -Prester John

Tokugawa Ieyasu established the longest-lasting of the Japanese shogunates, which retained power from the early sixteenth century until 1868.

According to mercantilist theory, the prosperity of a nation depended on a plentiful supply of

define the following term: -encomienda

The thirteen colonies in British North America were directly controlled by the British Board of Trade, the Royal Council, and Parliament, with no colonial legislatures.

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

In what ways did European expansion and commercialism alter the socioeconomic hierarchy, and how did they challenge older values and structures of authority? Did those alterations impact all of Europe in the same way?

The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Hellenistic World

The Roman Republic

The Roman Empire

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

Recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: the Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War Ii

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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