Chapter 7 Quiz

Question 1

Rise of the West Theory

Answer 1

The idea that the west had to grow to be the best because their predecessor’s were the greeks and romans who took over everyone and because of the ideals that those societies created, they are superior.

Question 2

Contingency

Answer 2

Thinking about the many possible outcomes that could have stemmed from an event

Question 3

Coincidence

Answer 3

Two random events that are connected.

Question 4

Conjuncture

Answer 4

A combination of events that lead. an outcome

Question 5

Vasco de Gama

Answer 5

The first Portuguese Sailor to go around Africa and enter the Indian ocean trade.

Question 6

Caravel

Answer 6

Mobile ships that were able to sail against the wind but large enough to carry a large amount of goods and cannons for protection.

Question 7

Spices

Answer 7

One of the main traded goods in the Indian ocean trade that was good for preserving food.
Main spice = pepper

Question 8

Indian Ocean commercial network

Answer 8

Trading between India, the spice islands, swahili city states, and the Arabian peninsula

Question 9

Zheng He

Answer 9

A Chinese Admiral who had many voyages around the world going as far as the Swahili city states, bringing back many new plants and animals, as well as being diplomatic by using the tribute system.

Question 10

Trading Post empire

Answer 10

The Portuguese set up many trading posts throughout the Indian ocean and made people pay in order to be able to pass by the trading posts.

Question 11

Carrying trade

Answer 11

The Portuguese would carry goods for other people, facilitating the Indian ocean trade because they didn’t have goods that other countries wanted.

Question 12

Aztec Empire

Answer 12

The Empire in Mexico, its capital was Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) and the empire fell to the Spanish conquistadors. The last Emperor was Montezuma II.

Question 13

Inca Empire

Answer 13

In Peru. Very mountainous. They were also divided and therefore very easy for the Spanish to take over

Question 14

Conquistadors

Answer 14

Conquerers who came from Spain to take over and rule Spanish settlements in the Americas

Question 15

hernan cortes

Answer 15

Conquered the Aztecs

Question 16

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 16

Conquered the Incas

Question 17

Great Dying

Answer 17

When almost 90% of the Native American population was killed off from diseases that were brought over from Europe

Question 18

Little Ice Age

Answer 18

A period when the Earth cooled very rapidly and created a very cold and rainy period that brought famine and hardship throughout he world because plants could not grow.

Question 19

General Crisis of the 1600’s

Answer 19

The effects of the little ice age, combined with inflation because of an increase in silver being injected into the market from Spanish colonies in the Americas led to people not being able to pay for a reduce amount of crops, meaning many people were left hungry.

Question 20

Encomienda System

Answer 20

A system that was supposed to establish a ruler of the new Spanish colonies by rewarding conquistadors with rule of any land they conquered. The natives were supposed to be given basic rights and be converted to Christianity, but they were actually treated like slaves in terrible working conditions.

Question 21

Plantation system

Answer 21

Slaves from Africa were taken and used to work on plantations in the Americas to produce cash crops. Because the production of cash crops, like sugar, are very expensive, free labor creates the most profits for the plantation owner.

Question 22

Slavery

Answer 22

The physical ownership of human beings.

Question 23

Transatlantic slave system

Answer 23

Slaves were brought from Africa to the Caribbean, then cash crops went to Europe , then Europeans went to Africa to get more slaves to bring to the Americas.

Question 24

African Diaspora

Answer 24

The movement of Africans all over the globe as the result of slavery.

Question 25

Columbian Exchange

Answer 25

The exchange of ideas, plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and the Afro-Eurasian world.

Question 26

Atlantic World

Answer 26

europe, the americas, and Africa looked at as a network.

Question 27

Philippines and Manilla

Answer 27

Much of the silver extracted from the silver mines in south America was taken to the Philippines which then became a center of Asian trade for spices and other goods.

Question 28

Manila Galleon trade

Answer 28

Many large galleons would leave from Spain to the Caribbean and South America, then go back to Spain with the silver. Other ships would take the silver to the Philippines and into the Indian ocean spice trade. These ships could only go into special port cities so the government could keep an eye on the silver.

Question 29

Piece of Eight

Answer 29

The Spanish currency

Question 30

Silver drain

Answer 30

The use of silver from the Americas to pay for luxury products from the east.

Question 31

Potosi

Answer 31

Where the main silver mine was (present day Bolivia)

Question 32

The roles of China, India, and Europe in the Global economy

Answer 32

Europe takes gold from south America to use to pay for the luxury items that are being produced in China and India in the Indian Ocean trade.