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World History
Module 16 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| system of mining and farming using natives as slave labor | encomienda |
| established a line of demarcation between spanish and portuguese territories | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| voyage that brought captured Africans to the west indies and the Americas | Middle Passage |
| extremely profitable trade item from southeast asia | spice |
| trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between africa, england, europe, the west indies, and the americas | triangular trade |
| controlled the spice islands until driven out by the dutch | portuguese |
| wrote many letters describing his voyages to the new world | Amerigo Vespucci |
| wrote a letter to the King of portugal protesting the impact of the slave trade on his kingdom | Afonso |
| explorer who gave portugal a direct sea route to india | Vasco de Gama |
| the english seized it and renamed it New York | The colony of new netherland |
| southern coast of west Africa | Gold Coast |
| english influence on the spice market was reduced to a single port here | Sumatra |
| were known to europeans as the spice islands | moluccas |
| formed the east india company and west india company | dutch |
| italian explorer, sailing for spain, who landed in the americas | christopher columbus |
| this society produced more slaves than practically any other on the african continent | the ibo |
| african society that was ruined because of the slave trade | benin |
| venetian seaman who explored the new england coastline of the americas for england | John cabot |
| dutch established a fort here in 1619 | Island of Java |
| African slaves were brought tot eh americas to supply labor for the? | sugarcane plantations |
| what is the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time? | Balance of trade |
| who went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to asia, when in fact he had actually discovered the americas? | Christopher columbus |
| what became the dominant religion on the southeast asian mainland from 1500 to 1800 | Buddhism |
| who were the first european settlers of the hudson river valley | the dutch |
| what african society changed from a brilliant society to a corrupt and brutal place by the slave trade | benin |
| what did the southern cast of west africa become known as by the portuguese explorers | the gold coast |
| what was the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century | mercantilism |
| the moluccas were known to the europeans as the | spice islands |
| what society of eastern nigeria produced more slaves than any other in the continent | the ibo |
| what was the name for the journey of slaves from africa to america | middle passage |
| what state on the gold coast was a collection of small principalities knit together by kinship ties and a king | Ashanti |
| the chief motives for european expansion into the new world were | god glory gold |
| Burma, vietnam, and what other country had strong monarchies that resisted foreign intrusion | thailand |
| what explorer conquere the incan empire | francisco pizarro |
| mosambique and what other country were two areas of africa which had a permanant european presence between 1500 and 1800? | South africa |
| ho pushed the portuguese out of the spice trade in southeast asia | the dutch |
| slaves were brought to the americas to grow what? | sugarcane |
| who drove the khmer monarchy from the mekong delta by 1800 | vietnamese |
| before the growth of what in south america and the islands, most enslaved persons had been used as domestic servants? | plantations |
| what is a body of nonelective government officials | bueaucracy |
| who was the first european to reach india by sailing around africa | vasco de gama |
| list three institutions of european society that were brought to the americas by european missionaries | churches schools hospitals |
| describe the pattern of traingle trade that developed in the 1500s | europeans transported goods to africa. They traded these goods for captured Africans. They then brought africans to the west indies. then took crops back to europe |
| why did columbus think he had reached asia in october in 1492 | he had miscalculated where he was. he landed on an island in the bahamas. he knew the worl was round so he assumed if he went west, he would reach the indies. he didn't know the americas existed |
| list the two reasons how most africans became slaves | a. they were captured by europeans + local rulers along ports. Traded guns and gold b. nonmuslim prisoners could be bought and sold as slaves |
| how did the portuguese make effective use of naval technology | shipbuilders built a new vessel called the caravel which was sturdier. they had astrolobes which helped them calculate latitude. they made a perfect 16-point wind rose which showed them what direction the wind was blowing |
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