Chapter 3 & 4: Exploration Test Review

Question 0

Why did Europeans see Africans as a better source of labor than Native Americans?

Answer 0

Millions of Native Americans died from disease, warfare, and brutal treatment.

Question 1

Who conquered the Aztec empire?

Answer 1

Hernando Cortès

Question 2

What prompted a wave of new businesses and trade practices in Europe in the 16th and 17th century?

Answer 2

New wealth from the Americans

Question 3

Which Europeans country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?

Answer 3

Spain

Question 4

As a part of the Columbian Exchange which goods were carried West across the Atlantic?

Answer 4

Onion, citrus fruits, olive, grape, turnip, coffee, bean, banana, sugar cane, peach, pear, honey bee, wheat, rice, barley, oats, cattle, sheep, pig, horse, smallpox, influenza, typhus, measles, malaria, diphtheria, whooping cough

Question 5

Korea was a vassal state of which country during the 1700’s?

Answer 5

China

Question 6

Why did Lord McCartney give a letter from King George III to QI an-long?

Answer 6

Great Britain wanted to increase trade with China.

Question 7

Who captained the first European ship to sail around the tip of Africa, now known as the Cape of Good Hope?

Answer 7

Vasco da Gama

Question 8

What type of policy did Japan institute to control foreign ideas?

Answer 8

A closed country policy

Question 9

Which European country controlling trade in the East Indies?

Answer 9

The Netherlands

Question 10

What helped increase slave trade in Africa during the seventh century?

Answer 10

Spread of Islam into Africa

Question 11

How was Africa affected by the Atlantic slave trade?

Answer 11

Cultures lost and families torn apart

Question 12

What were Europeans main motives for making voyages for exploration?

Answer 12

God, Glory, and Gold

Desire for wealth

Question 13

Why was Tokugawa Ieyasu upset by the success of Christian missionaries?

Answer 13

He feared religious uprisings

Question 14

What was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies of the 1500’s and 1600’s?

Answer 14

To fund colonial exploration

Question 15

What did the encomienda system provide for New Spain?

Answer 15

A cheap labor source

Question 16

What European nation profited most from trade with the East in the years directly following the Crusades?

Answer 16

Italy

Question 17

Why was Zheng He important?

Answer 17

He led 6 Chinese overseas explorations

Question 18

Which nation did Prince Henry help to take the lead in overseas exploration?

Answer 18

Portugal

Question 19

By the 1700’s which nation’s East India Company dominated the Indian Ocean Trade?

Answer 19

Portugal

Question 20

How were the Europeans’ reasons for overseas exploration similar to the reasons the Chinese had for overseas exploration in the early 1400’s?

Answer 20

• In the early 1400’s Chinese Muslim admiral Zheng He led 7 voyages with 40-300 ships
• 27000 crew members
• treasure ships
• distributed silver and silk
• to show Chinese superiority an 16 countries sent tribute to the Ming court but the voyages wasted valuable resources and China withdrew into isolation

Europe searched for wealth.

• Europe wanted to be rich and improve new trade routes
• because of an increased demand for spices merchants had to sell them at high prices to gain a profit.
• Europeans sought to cut out Italians so they wouldn’t have that extra increase and spices could be sold for cheaper
• sought a sea route directly to Asia

BOTH COUNTRIES WANTED MORE WEALTH