Ch. 3 Quiz

Question 1

What role did the Italian city-sates of Genoa play in late Medieval/Middle Ages trade?

Answer 1

Genoa was the center of the thriving European luxury trade with the East that began in the Middle Ages. They traded goods through land-based trade networks that were in Muslim hands.

Question 2

What role did European and Indigenous women play in emerging colonial societies?

Answer 2

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- European men used relations with indigenous women to demonstrate their power
- Some native women became interpreters and guides
- European men would use women for coerced labor and rape.
-Young Indigenous women were taken by force or given as “gifts” to conquering Europeans
- Women also played an important part in Christian conversion efforts as nuns and Protestant teachers and missionaries

Question 3

How did exploration and the INITIAL colonization done by the English, French, and Dutch differ from that of the Spanish and Portuguese?

Answer 3

• Iberian powers (Spain and Portugal), whose royal governments financed exploration and directly ruled the colonies
  -England, France, and the Netherlands started colonizing through companies. These companies were given permission by their governments to control trade and settlement in certain areas, kind of like having exclusive rights to do business in those places.

Question 4

What role did silver play in European and global economys?

Answer 4

-1450 to 1750, silver trade became a cornerstone of global commerce
- The discovery of vast silver deposits in the Americas played a decisive role in shaping the world’s trading systems during this era.