World History Honors

Question 1

What Chinese explorer sailed the Indian Ocean in the 1300s centuries before the
Europeans could sail long distances?

Answer 1

Zheng He

Question 2

Which European country began sailing/exploring West Africa first?

Answer 2

Portugal

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

Japan

Question 4

Which country in Asia withdrew from global trade in the 1500s because it did not
see a profit in long distance voyages?

Answer 4

China

Question 5

What Japanese ruler unified Japan in the 1600s and ended the country’s civil war
among feudal daimyo?

Answer 5

Tokugawa Leyasun

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Spain

Question 7

What disease did the Europeans bring to the Americas that killed many Native
Americans – the Aztecs, for example?

Answer 7

Smallpox

Question 8

Which European country settled Brazil and brought their language and religion to
this country?

Answer 8

Portugal

Question 9

Which Native American empire existed in present-day Mexico in the 1400s?

Answer 9

Aztec Empire

Question 10

What Native American empire existed in present-day Peru in the 1400s?

Answer 10

Incan Empire

Question 11

What Native American empire existed in present-day Central America in the
1400s?

Answer 11

Mayan Empire

Question 12

What region of the world began to dominate global trade by the 1500s?

Answer 12

Western Europe

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

Japan and China

Question 14

Which European country colonized South and Central America, as well as the
Southwest portion of North America?

Answer 14

Spain

Question 15

Which European country colonized the Northeast region of North America?

Answer 15

British

Question 16

To what two regions of the Americas did most African slaves go?

Answer 16

Caribbean and South America

Question 17

What were the Europeans growing in the Caribbean and South America that
caused the demand for African labor?

Answer 17

Rice and sugar plantations

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

Tobacco and potatoes went to Europe, Africa, and Asia
Disease and cattle came to Americas from Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Question 19

The Spanish colonized Brazil.
T/F

Answer 19

False

Question 20

The Spanish colonized the New England region of North Americans
T/F

Answer 20

False

Question 21

The Aztec, Mayan, and Incan empires existed in the Americas before the
Europeans arrived.
T/F

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Spanish guns killed most of the Native Americans in Mexico, Central America
and South America.
T/F

Answer 22

False

Question 23

The Europeans introduced the horse to the Americas while the Native Americans
introduced the potato and tobacco.
T/F

Answer 23

True

Question 24

The French explored the Mississippi Delta and Quebec, which explain why many
people from those regions still speak French today.
T/F

Answer 24

True

Question 25

The French colonized what later became the Southwest region of the United States. T/F

Answer 25

False

Question 26

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. T/F

Answer 26

True

Question 27

Large numbers of Africans were important to the Northeast region of North America to work on the large-scale sugar plantations. T/F

Answer 27

False

Question 28

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. T/F

Answer 28

True

Question 29

There were approximately 2-3 million Native Americans from over 500 different language groups that lived in North America before Columbus arrived in 1492.

Answer 29

True