Chapter 15 Review Questions Flashcards

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Most historians agree that the fact that the sweet potato, domesticated in South America, became a staple in the Polynesian diet prior to the arrival of Europeans

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Suggests that Polynesians were able to sail to South America and back

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By 1400, the Indian Ocean trade had

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Reached parity with the overland routes through China and the Middle East

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Case sea trade reached its peak during the

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Ming dynasty

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Chinese ships reached as far as Africa under the command of

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Zheng He

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In the early Middle Ages, the greatest of the Atlantic mariners were the

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Vikings

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Vikings settlements in the Atlantic region included Iceland, Greenland, and

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Newfoundland

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By the year 1000, the Arawak had settled

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The Greater Antilles and the Bahamas

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Portuguese and Spanish success in exploring the Atlantic Ocean and colonizing in the New World

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Made Portugal and Spain the wealthiest nations in Europe in the 1500s

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Portuguese explorer of the Indian Ocean benefited from

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The development of the caravel

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In and effort to head off conflict, the pope divided the world between Spain and Portugal in

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The Treaty of Tordesillas

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Which of the following is true?

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European nations made slow progress in establishing colonies in Africa and Asia in the early 1500s

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In the Indian Ocean during the 1500s, Portugal was able to control

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Indian Ocean trade

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Despite the fact that disease greatly helped Cortes in conquering the Aztecs

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He also had reinforcement from Amerindians hostile to the Aztecs

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Both the Spanish and the Portuguese found that the Americans offered

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Well-developed farming methods that provided ample food supplies

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Which of the following is true by 1600s?

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Asia no longer initiated the majority of overland and maritime trade.

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