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Originally the Venetians and Genoese traded slaves from the

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Black Sea

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The money exchanged at the time of marriage in Southeast Asia was called the bird wealth, and it was given to

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the bride

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One of the many motivations for exploration in the 15th century was the desire of European monarch to

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compete with one another

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What empire captured Constantinople in the 15th century and then limited Europe's access to spices from the east?

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Ottoman Empire

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Prince Henry II of Portugal is significant for his

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support of voyages of exploration

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Spanish viceroys presided over what judicial advisory council?

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Audiencia

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The staple food of the Southeast Asian diet was

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rice

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In 1492, Spain conquered Granada, which encouraged

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religious fervor to convert Muslims

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The European kingdom that took the lead in overseas expiration was

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Portugal

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The major trade commodity of the trans-Saharan trade route was

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gold

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Who had the most advanced economy in the world before the 18th century?

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China

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Columbus landed on Cuba on Oct. 28 and was convinced it was

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China

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Before attacking Tenochtitlán, Cortés established the first Spanish settlement in Mexico at

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Vera Cruz

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By 1500, Portugal controlled the flow of gold from where to Europe?

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Africa

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How did Portugal come to be the entry point for Asian goods into Europe?

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By capturing Muslim-controlled port cities in the Indian Ocean

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The encomiendas were essentially legalized forms of

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slavery

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Even before the discoveries of Columbus, Europeans participated in the world economy through what merchants?

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Venetian

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The peoples of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines all spoke languages of what language family?

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Austronesian

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The most significant food item introduced from Europe to the New World was

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meat

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The competing claims to the Americas b/w Spain and Portugal were settled by

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Pope Alexander VI

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Why did women in Southeast Asia tend to have more economic power than women in India, China, and Europe?

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A primary role of women in Southeast Asia was rice production.

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How far west did Zheng He explore in the 15th century?

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Egypt

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Where did Columbus first land in the Americas?

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The Bahamas

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Columbus's goal was to reach the Indies, which for him meant

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Asia

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The most significant error of Ptolemy's Geography was that it

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underestimated the size of the earth

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Most of the African slaves who died on the voyage to the Americas died

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of dysentery

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In the 16th century, there was a huge increase in the use of enslaved Africans in Brail in order to produce

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sugar

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Upon reaching the city of Tenochtitlán, Cortés

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took Montezuma hostage

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Ferdinand Magellan was sent on a mission in 1519 to discover a direct route to

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the Moluccas.

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The astrolabe was

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used to plot latitude using the sun

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The Aztec Empire was conquered by

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Hernando Cortés

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The central feature of Columbus's character was his

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deep religious conviction

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The first European explorer to realize that Columbus had discovered an unknown continent was

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Amerigo Vespucci.

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Portolans were

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written descriptions of sea routes

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Scholars have identified the natives first encountered by Columbus as

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Taino

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By the end of his life, Columbus

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continued to believe he had discovered islands off the coast of Asia.

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The Spanish intendant system was loyal to

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the Spanish monarch directly

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The encomienda system, established by the Spanish crown, allowed Spaniards to

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exact tribute and forced labor from the native people on a particular piece of land.

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By the 16th century, what empire dominated the sea trade in the Mediterranean?

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Ottoman

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The Spanish crown established a monopoly of New World traffic to what city?

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Seville

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In the 15th century, the largest commercial center of the Indian Ocean was

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Malacca

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Shakespeare's Othello reflects 16th century uncertainty about

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race and religion

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One of the most important trade goods that came out of India was

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pepper

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As early as 1291, Genoa sponsored an attempt to discover an Atlantic route to

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India

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The beginning of European exploration and expansion was marked by the 1415 conquest of

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Ceuta

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The most important food item introduced from the New World to Europe was

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white potatoes

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The Royal African Company was created by England to facilitate trade in

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African slaves

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The French found trade in what commodity from the Americas to be most profitable?

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furs

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On his initial voyage to the Americas in 1492, Columbus considered the natives he met to be

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handsome and peaceful

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Support for European theories associating race and slavery were provided by Aristotle and

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the Bible

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It is believed that the native population of the Americas in 1492 was

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50 million

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The first European to round the Cape of Good Hope was

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Diaz

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As governor of the island of Hispaniola, Christopher Columbus

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subjected the indigenous people to forced labor

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The 17th century Dutch trade was based on

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spices

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What was discovered by the Spanish at Potosi in the 16th century?

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Silver

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The Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlán was aided by what disease?

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smallpox

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Europeans believed that they improved African slaves by

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converting them to Christianity.

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When the Inca leader Atahualpa first met the Spanish, he

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was seized and ultimately executed

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On his voyages, Columbus took a copy of The Travels of Marco Polo and The Travels of

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Sir John Mandeville

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Montaigne's essays helped introduce what new philosophical concept into European intellectual tradition?

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Skepticism

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How did the climate change in Europe during the 17th century?

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It became colder and wetter

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In the 17th century, serfdom returned to

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eastern Europe

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What happened to monarchs in eastern Europe during the 16th and early 17th century?

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They lost power to the nobles

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The root cause of the Thirty Years' War was

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religious

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In the Holy Roman Empire, the Peace of Augsburg of 1555 recognized

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Lutheranism as a religious choice

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The Thirty Years' War began with what region in Europe?

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Bohemia

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What title did Armand Jean du Plessis hold when he served Louis XIII?

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Cardinal Richelieu

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Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII laid siege to what Protestant commercial center?

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La Rochelle

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Louis XIV believed in what political theory?

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The divine right of kings

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Louis XIV's nickname of the "Sun King" can from

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a costume he once wore

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In 1685, Louis XIV revoked the

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Edict of Nantes

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Louis XIV's claim in the War of the Spanish Succession was that

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his grandson Philip of Anjou should inherit the Spanish crown

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Spain's overseas empire started to lose its economic viability when

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its American silver mines ran out of silver

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In 1609, the Spanish crown expelled three hundred thousand

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Muslims

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In 1688, Spain recognized the independence of

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Portugal

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As a result of the Thirty Years' War, the Austrian Hapsburgs

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turned inward and eastward in an attempt to unify their power

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The Austrian Hapsburgs began to centralize their power in the 17th century by suppressing

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Bohemia

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In the late 17th century, the Austrian Hapsburgs drove what rival empire out of Hungary?

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The Ottomans

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Under Ivan the Terrible,

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artisans were bound to their towns and heavily taxed

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The Time of Troubles refers to

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a royal succession crisis and civil war in Russia

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The Romanov Tsars added what region to their territorial holdings?

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Siberia

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At the Battle of Poltava, Peter the Great defeated

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Sweden

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Peter the Great built St. Petersburg largely by using

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unpaid peasant labor

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Before he became King of England, James was already King of

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Scotland

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In the early 17th century, the king of England claimed

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kings had absolute power by divine right

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Charles I frequently clashed with what group in Parliament?

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House of Commons

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Charles I had to call Parliament in 1640 because he needed money to

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send an army to put down a rebellion in Scotland

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According to the English Test Act of 1673,

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political participation was based upon adherence to the Church of England

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What ended with the Glorious Revolution?

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divine right monarchy

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The Toleration Act of 1689 granted freedom of worship to

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Protestants

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