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

Using specific examples, explain what role private investment and initiative played in European expansion. What was the role of state sponsorship and patronage?

An extensive multiracial society appeared first in

Talk about: -Tokugawa shoguns

The term encomienda refers to

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?

Talk about: -Malacca

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided

The "Black Hole of Calcutta" refers to the imprisonment of British settlers in India by

Talk about: -joint-stock trading companies

Talk about: -Treaty of Tordesillas

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

Talk about: -Ptolemy's Geography

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

Talk about: -conquistadors

Talk about: -Nagasaki and the Dutch

Talk about: -lateen sails and square rigs

The first European nation to establish formal diplomatic relations with China was

Talk about: -encomienda

It was not until the 1770s that sentiment in Europe began to build against the slave trade, initially with the Society of Friends.

Printed editions of Ptolemy's Geography did not become available until 1600, too late to make any significant difference in the efforts of early European explorers.