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World History Ch. 16
Prentis Hall World Connections to Today
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was Spain's policy on trade? | Colonists were only allowed to buy and sell goods with Spain. |
| Which of the following groups was at the top of the social structure in the Spanish colonies? | peninsulares |
| What was the voyage to America like for enslaved Africans? | Conditions were terrible and millions of enslaved Africans died. |
| What was considered the most important item of African trade? | people |
| What was the significance of the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494? | It claimed Brazil as property of Portugal. |
| During the 1500s and 1600s, the nobility in Europe lost land and influence because | the middle class of merchants acquired wealth. |
| Which of the following statements about women in New Spain and education is true? | Women who wanted an education had to enter a convent. |
| Why did Spain set up the Council of the Indies? | to pass laws for the colonies to follow |
| How did Britain govern its colonies differently from the way France governed its colonies? | Britain allowed its colonists some self-government. |
| In the 1400s, some West African societies began to | trade directly with Europeans. |
| How did the arrival of the Spanish affect the Native American population? | Diseases brought by the Europeans killed millions of Native Americans. |
| How did early settlers in Brazil first make a living? | exporting brazilwood |
| Conquistadors were attracted to the Americas by | the desire for riches and religious zeal. |
| Why did Spain pass the New Laws of the Indies in 1542? | to end the harsh treatment of Native Americans |
| Why did Aztec emperor Montezuma send gifts to Hernán Cortés? | he thought he might be the god-king |
| How did the economy of Europe change in the 1500s and 1600s? | The building of empires caused inflation and encouraged capitalism and mercantilism. |
| Hernán Cortés formed alliances with many of the conquered people to | fight the Aztecs. |
| Where was the first permanent French settlement of New France? | Quebec |
| What territory was France forced to give up to Britain as part of the Treaty of Paris of 1763? | Canada |
| Identify one reason the Spanish brought enslaved Africans to the Americas? | to provide labor for Spanish sugar plantations |
| How were Native Americans of the Caribbean region affected by their early encounters with Europeans? | The Spanish seized the Native Americans' gold and forced them to change to Christianity. |
| What methods did Pizarro use to conquer the Incan empire? | He tried force and diplomacy. He tried trickery. He got some Indians to capture and kill Atahualpa and thousands of Incas. |
| How did divisions within the Aztec and Incan empires help with the Spanish? | People that were conquered by the Incas and Aztecs helped the conquistadors. |
| How did Spain control its American empire? | It regulated imports and exports and granted encomiendas. The Council of the Indies and viceroy and church leaders helped the government. |
| How did other European nations challenge Spanish power in the Americas? | The established their own colonies and seized Spanish treasure ships. |
| Why did New France group slowly? | The harsh Canadian climate did not attract very many French peasants. |
| What form of government did the 13 English colonies set up? | Each colony had its own representative assembly elected by the men. These assemblies advised the governor that was appointed by the king. |
| How did Britain come to dominate North America? | it won the French and Indian War. |
| What impact did European competition for colonies have on North Americans? | it had a mostly negative effect on Native Americans who lost their land and caught white diseases. |
| How did Africans try to stop the slave trade? | King Affonso wrote to the kind of Portugal asking him to end the slave trade. The alma my of Futa Toro passed a law forbidding anyone to transport slaves through his area. |
| What was the impact of the slave trade on life in Africa? | the population of some regions decreased dramatically. Some societies were ruined. The African states that profited from the slave trade grew powerful. |
| How did the voyages of Columbus lead to global exchanges of goods and ideas? | Columbus brought people, plants, and animals from the Americas to Europe. He brought European settlers and plants to America. |
| How did the Spanish conquistadors treat the Native Americans they encountered? | Some Native Americans were forced to convert to Christianity; some were enslaved; some died of diseases acquired from Europeans. |
| What was the impact of the slave trade? | a decline in African slaves, an increase in power of rulers. It increased trade. Prices increased, people started new businesses, brought in more gold and silver than went out. |
| What were some of the things exchanged during the Columbian Exchange that went from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere? | Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, pineapples, cocoa, peppers, peanuts, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, squash. |
| What were some of the things exchanged during the Columbian Exchange that went from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere? | Wheat, sugar, banana, rice, grapes, olive oil, dandelions, horses, pigs, cow, goats, chickens, smallpox, typhus. |
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