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VCHSAPWH 14 & 15

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The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the New World between   Spain and Portugal  
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An area of dispute between Portugal and Spain despite the Treaty of Tordesillas was who had claim to the spice trade from   Molucca  
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What did the Portuguese trade with the kingdom of Benin?   Copper; Textiles; Glass beads; Horses  
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The powerful West African kingdom of Benin limited its contacts with the Portuguese by:   refusing to accept Catholicism; declining offers to receive missionaries; closing the market in male slaves  
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The most profitable and strongest colonization by Europe was in   the Americas  
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The first Portuguese who landed in India were greeted with   derisive laughter  
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The Portuguese gained control of the eastern Indian Ocean through   conquest  
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The Portuguese base in China was at   Macao  
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The result of Portuguese domination of Indian Ocean trade routes was   all of these  
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The difference between the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire was that   the Spanish Empire was a territorial empire  
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The first Amerindians to contact the Spanish were the   Arawaks  
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Conquistador means   conqueror  
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Cortés had which advantages in conquering the Aztecs?   An alliance with the Tlaxcalans; Firearms and horses; The Aztecs had only recently established their empire at the expense of other tribes; Smallpox  
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Francisco Pizarro defeated the Inca Empire with   180 men  
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The vessels of the Indian Ocean were called:   dhows  
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How did the rise of medieval Islam give trade in the Indian Ocean an important boost?   The Muslim cities in the Middle East provided a demand for commodities;Networks of Muslim traders tied the region together;The Muslim traders shared a common ethnic language and law; Muslim traders actively spread their religion to distant trading cities  
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The Ming Empire attempted to create new Indian Ocean contacts by   sending out seven imperial fleets between 1405 and 1433  
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Which of the following statements is not true of Chinese-African contacts circa 1415-1433?   Many cultural misunderstandings led to the Sino-African War  
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The Chinese treasure ships of Zheng He carried   silk; metals; and other valuable goods as gifts for distant rulers  
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Why did the Ming court suspend the voyages of Zheng He?   The government believed that little could be gained by exploring  
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In Europe's later Middle Ages the rapid growth of industry resulted in environmental changes; which was not among them   The extinction of many animal species  
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The continued growth of trade and manufacturing after 1200 resulted in   The growth of urban areas in the Latin West  
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The growth of metal working industries in the Middle Ages was to many reasons including   improved mining techniques from Central Europe  
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The crucial factor to the growth of cities was   increased trade  
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Marco Polo's goal was to   travel to the Mongol capita  
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The predominant city for trade with the Far East during the Middle Ages was   Venice  
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Which of the following is not true of trading cities in Europe during the Middle Ages   They were unable to produce products to compete with Asian products  
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An early motivation for Portuguese maritime exploration was to   gain access to the sub-Saharan gold trade  
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Prince Henry of Portugal was known as Henry the Navigator because   he devoted his life to promoting exploration  
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The explicit goal of Portuguese explorers was to   find a passage to India  
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When Portugal began making a significant income from Africa it began to issue   gold coins called cruzados  
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Two important navigational technologies the magnetic compass and the astrolabe   were of Chinese and Arab or Greek origin respectively  
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The Portuguese contribution to shipbuilding technology was the creation of the   caravel  
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The advantage of the caravel was that it was   fast; maneuverable; a good fighting ship; strong  
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An important addition to the maritime revolution was   learning to speedily return by sailing northwest to ride westerly winds  
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The first Portuguese explorer to purchase the rights of exploration of Africa was   Fernão Gomes  
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The first financial return from the Portuguese voyages came from   the slave trade  
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The first Portuguese explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa and view the Indian Ocean was   Bartolomeu Dias  
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In 1500   what did Portuguese mariners discover while attempting to find a favorable wind around Africa  
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Christopher Columbus was from   Genoa  
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Columbus insisted that he had reached   the Indian Ocean  
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What official role did the Catholic Church play in the persecution of Jews in medieval Europe?   It played no official role in the persecution  
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A guild was   an association of craft specialists from the same trade  
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One of the most significant growth industries in the 14th century was   merchant banking  
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The Hanseatic League was based in   Germany  
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Which of the following is true of merchant banking in the fifteenth century?   Checking accounts; shareholding companies; money changing; loans; and investments were offered as services  
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What "architectural wonder" first made its appearance in France on or about the year 1140 CE?   Gothic cathedrals  
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Which of the following is not a distinctive feature of the Gothic cathedral?   Domes  
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The Renaissance began in   northern Italy  
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Some of the "lost knowledge" of the Greek and Arab world came into the Latin West through   the recapture of southern Italy from the Byzantines and of Sicily and Toledo from the Muslims  
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Before they were expelled in 1492   the largest population of Jews in the West was found in  
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The two new religious orders in the 13th century that lent themselves to teaching were   Dominican and Franciscans  
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In the universities of the Latin West   all courses were taught in  
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The most notable work in Scholasticism   the Summa Theologica  
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Which of the following does not describe the Divine Comedy   It was written in Latin like most literature of the time  
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What percentage of the western European population was rural during the late Middle Ages   90%  
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Western Europeans of the later Middle Ages referred to themselves as   Latins  
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Cause of the end of serfdom in western Europe   the black death  
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The Bubonic Plague was brought to Europe by   Genoese traders  
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The three-field system was   an agricultural method  
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The Black Death killed   one out of three western Europeans  
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Windmills and watermills   has long been common in the Islamic world  
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