Question | Answer |
Why did the southern tip of Africa become known as the Cape of Good Hope? | Rounding it gave sailors a direct sea route to Asia |
The Line of Demarcation divided the world trade and exploration rights between which two powers? | Spain and Portugal |
How did European expansion of the slave trade effect African states in the 1600s and 1600s? | African States competed to dominate the slave trade. |
Who were the Boers? | Dutch farmers who settled around Cape Town. |
In Ming China, why did European traders pay for Chinese silks and porcelains in gold or silver instead of exchanging goods. | The Chinese did not want inferior European trade goods. |
After the Japanese, and later the Manchus, invaded Korea, the Koreans responded by doing what? | Excluding foreigners from their nation. |
When the first European traders arrived in the 1500's, the Japanese responded by doing what? | Welcoming trade with the West. |
The first Europeans to challenge Portuguese domination of Asian trade were who? | The Dutch. |
In the 1400s, Europeans searched for new trade routes to obtain valuable spices that came mainly from where? | The Moluccas |
How did Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias seek a route to Asia in 1460? | He rounded the southern tip of Africa. |
The islands that Christopher Columbus explored in his voyage in 1492 later became known as what? | The West Indies |
How, in 1513, did the Spanish adventurer Vasco Nunez de Balboa reach the Pacific Ocean? | By traveling overland through Panama. |
How did Europeans usually acquire African captives for the slave trade? | The relied on African traders to bring captives to African ports. |
By trading in gold and slaves, Osei Tutu helped to build which powerful kingdom/empire? | Asante Kingdom |
T or F:
Cape Town was the first place Europeans traded slaves in Africa. | F (It was, however, the first permanent European settlement in Africa) |
In the early 1500s, what method did Afonso de Albuquerque use to establish Portuguese outposts in India? | He burned coastal towns and destroyed Arab fleets. |
What did the Manchus do to effectively rule China? | Accepted the Confucian system of government. |
In the mid 1600s, which nation captured Malacca from the Portuguese and developed a monopoly on trade in the Spice Islands? | The Netherlands |
Why did Japanese shoguns turn against foreign traders in the mid 1500s? | Japan saw foreigners as a threat after Spain seized the Philippines. |
Under what condition did the Ming rulers allow limited trade with the Europeans? | That the Europeans would leave at the end of the trading season. |
What was a Portuguese trading post in Ming China? | Macao |
What company was formed by a group of wealthy merchants that had full sovereign powers? | The Dutch East India Company |
Who led an expedition that became the first to circumnavigate the Earth? | Ferdinand Magellan |
Who united his people by claiming that they shared spiritual bonds? | Osei Tutu |
Who led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal? | Prince Henry |
Who was a ruler of Kongo who tried to halt the slave trade in his hands? | Affonso I |
What is the name of an island off the coast of India that was seized by the Portuguese in 1510? | Goa |
What is the name of an island chain once called the Spice Islands? | Moluccas |
What is the name of the new dynasty that ruled China after the decline of the Ming Dynasty? | Qing |
What is the name of a coastal city of East Africa that was an important trade center? | Mombasa |