Chapter 2 Flashcards
What Chinese explorer sailed the Indian Ocean in the 1300s centuries before the Europeans could sail long distances?
Zeng He
Which European country began sailing/exploring West Africa first?
Portugal
Which country in Asia developed a strong central government (dynasty) that
could keep Europeans and their religion out of their country for two hundred
years?
Japan
Which country in Asia withdrew from global trade in the 1500s because it did not
see a profit in long distance voyages?
China
What Japanese ruler unified Japan in the 1600s and ended the country’s civil war
among feudal daimyo?
Tokugawa Shogunate
Which European country sailed to the Americas – South and Central - in large
numbers by the 1500s and as a result brought their language and religion to the
region changing it forever.
Spain
What disease did the Europeans bring to the Americas that killed many Native
Americans – the Aztecs, for example?
Small pox, influenza
Which European country settled Brazil and brought their language and religion to
this country?
Portugal
Which Native American empire existed in present-day Mexico in the 1400s?
Aztecs
What Native American empire existed in present-day Peru in the 1400s?
Inca
What Native American empire existed in present-day Central America in the
1400s?
Myan
What region of the world began to dominate global trade by the 1500s?
Western Europe
What two countries in Asia remained largely agricultural while the Europeans, as
a result of the growth of the merchant class, began to shift to global trade and
capitalism by the 1600s?
Japan and China
Which European country colonized South and Central America, as well as the Southwest portion of North America?
Spain
Which European country colonized the Northeast region of North America?
Brittain/ United kingdom
. To what two regions of the Americas did most African slaves go?
Plantations in central America and Silver mines in south America
What were the Europeans growing in the Caribbean and South America that caused the demand for African labor?
sugar and cotton
What two products came to Europe as a result of the Columbian Exchange and
what to products arrived in the Americas because of the Columbian Exchange.
Corn and potatoes from the Americas and rice and cotton from Europe
The Spanish colonized Brazil. (true or false)
False
The Spanish colonized the New England region of North Americans (true or false)
False
The Aztec, Mayan, and Incan empires existed in the Americas before the
Europeans arrived. (true or false)
True
Spanish guns killed most of the Native Americans in Mexico, Central America and South America. (True or False)
False
The Europeans introduced the horse to the Americas while the Native Americans
introduced the potato and tobacco (True or False)
True
The French explored the Mississippi Delta and Quebec, which explain why many
people from those regions still speak French today.
True
The French colonized what later became the Southwest region of the United
States.
True
Europeans imported Africans to the Americas as slave labor because there were insufficient numbers of Native Americans and whites to work the sugar and cotton plantations of the Caribbean and the American South. (True or False)
False
Large numbers of Africans were important to the Northeast region of North America to work on the large scale sugar plantations. (true or false)
False
The 1400s-1600s also witnessed the growth of a Commercial Revolution,
Capitalism - an economic system based on private property and the profit motive -and a Global Trade network that connected the Old World Web and the New World Web. (True or False)
True
There were approximately 2-3 million Native Americans from over 500 different
language groups that lived in North America before Columbus arrived in 1492. (True or false)
True
The Protestant Reformation refers to Martin Luthers criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and the collapse of the Church into two wings - Catholics and Protestants. (true or false)
True
The Renaissance began in Southern Italy because that region was the center of
trade between Europe and Asia and because it was the first region to proper after
the Middle Ages. (True or False)
