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Modern European World History Honors Essay Questions on Quiz: 1. How did the Portuguese and Spanish motives for exploration and colonization differ? 2. What was the triangular trade and how did it develop?

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In their voyages along west coast of Africa, the Portuguese were initially in search of:

A. Slaves
B. Spices
C. A sea route to India
D. Gold

Gold

Portugal came to dominate the Far East spice trade by doing all the following EXCEPT:

A. Sending trading fleets to India regularly.
B. Blockading the mouth of the Red Sea.
C. Blockading the Strait of Gibraltar.
D. Establishing a series of forts along the west Indian coastline.

Blockading the Strait of Gibraltar.

In the long history of slavery in Western civilization, the basic patterns of slavery were not racialized (in other words, directly related to ethnicity or skin color) until:

A. Europeans needed slave labor to develop the Atlantic colonies of Madeira, the Canaries, and the Azores.
B. Lisbon became a significant market of enslaved Africans in the middle of the fifteenth century.
C. Columbus returned with indigenous people from the New World in 1492.
D. Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec empire of Mexico between 1519 and 1521.

Lisbon became a significant market of enslaved Africans in the middle of the fifteenth century.

The discovery of the New World was initially shocking to Europeans because:
A. It was a land of incredible wealth.
B. It appeared completely uninhabited.
C. Its existence was not foretold by Christianity or ancient texts.
D. Its inhabitants refused to adopt Christianity.

Its existence was not foretold by Christianity or ancient texts.

Hernan Cortes was aided in his conquest of the Aztec empire by all the following EXCEPT:

A. People subjugated by the Aztecs who wanted to rebel.
B. The European rifles he had brought with him.
C. European bacteria.
D. A consort who indigenous and spoke the common language of the empire.

The European rifles he had brought with him.

The extraordinary movement of peoples. plants, animals, goods, cultures, and diseases in the sixteenth century is called the:

A. American Exchange
B. Cartesian Exchange
C. New World Exchange
D. Columbian Exchange

Columbian Exchange

Protestant rulers targeted the North American coast for colonization because:

A. Spanish and Portuguese holds on the Caribbean and the South America were firm.
B. The Treaty of Tordesillas had agreed that Central America would be split between the Spanish and Portugal.
C. There were fewer pirates in northern waters.
D. Protestant countries were generally northern European, so the North American climate suited them better.

Spanish and Portuguese holds on the Caribbean and the South America were firm.

While many diseases traveled from Europe to the New World, _________ appears to have been introduced to Europe from the Americas.

A. Measles
B. Typhiod
C.Syphilis
D. Gonorrhea

Syphilis

The population of early North American colonies grew because:

A. European governments offered free land to the new colonists.
B. Indentured servants came over in large numbers to work in the colonies.
C. Groups of indigenous people occasionally chose to join the colonies.
D. Settlers in the colonies brought slaves in large numbers.

Indentured servants came over in large numbers to work in the colonies.

Much of the wealth derived from colonies in the Americas came from:

A. Sugar
B. Cotton
C. Tobacco
D. Gold

Sugar

True or False:

The voyages of both Columbus and Magellan were attempts to reach Asia from Europe.

True

True or False:

The "price revolution" was driven by a huge influx of silver from the New World and a declining population in Europe.

False

True or False:

Few if any people believed the world was flat when Columbus began his voyage.

True

True or False:

Many agricultural commodities moved successfully from one ecosystem to another in the early modern Christianity in Europe.

True

Bonus:

What technology did they use back then to navigate around the world?

Chronometer

Bonus:

Who is the first person to circumnavigate the globe?

Ferdinand Magellan

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