Chapter 23- AP World – Flashcards
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The Portuguese mariner who sailed in 1498 was
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Vasco da Gama
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During the early modern era, which of the following non-European people's explored the Indian Ocean?
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Chinese
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Which of the following was not one of the main inspirations for European exploration?
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The desire to conquer China and India
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The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was
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Portugal
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The Portuguese viewed the Atlantic Ocean islands as the perfect location for the cultivation of
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Sugarcane
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Which of the following was not a reason for the European interests in finding a maritime trade route?
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Mongol domination had caused trade along the silk roads to stop
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The reconquista came to an end in 1492 when
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The Muslim kingdom of Granada fell to Spanish Catholic forces
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Lateen sails had the advantage of
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Working better in crosswinds
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The atrolabe was designed to measure
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Latitude
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Which of the following were both Chinese inventions?
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Sternpost rudder and magnetic compass
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Wind wheels
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Are circular wind patterns whose discovery aided sailing
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The Volta do mar
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Relied on a thorough knowledge of wind patterns
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Which of the following men conquered the Moroccan port of Ceuta and sponsored a series of voyages down the west African coast
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Henry of Portugal
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The first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope was
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Bartolomeu Dias
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The profitable merchandise that Vasco da Gama purchased in India was made up of
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Pepper and cinnamon
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Christopher Columbus's decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on
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His miscalculation if the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan
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When Columbus reached this area, he sent delegates to seek the court of the emperor of China
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Cuba
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On 12 October 1492, Columbus made landfall on an island that the native Tainos called
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Guanahani
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The first European to sight the Pacific Ocean was
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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Which of these early explorers was not Portuguese?
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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On his circumnavigation of the world, Ferdinand Magellan died in
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The Philippines
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The first circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1522 by
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Ferdinand Magellan's crew
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Most of the actual exploration of the Pacific Ocean was carried out by the
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English
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The explorer who led three expeditions into the Pacific in the eighteenth century was
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James Cook
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The English explorer James Cook died during a fight in
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Hawai'i
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Min their attempt to control the spice trade in the Indian Ocean, the Europeans during the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries
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Met with limited success because of a lack of personnel
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The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to
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Force merchant ships to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties
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Hormuz, Goa, and Melaka were all seized in the early 1500s by
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Afonso d'Alboquerque
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The Portuguese lost control of the port of Melaka in 1641 when it fell to the
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Dutch
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Which of the following cities was not a Portuguese post?
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Bombay
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In the end, Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because
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It was a small country with a small population
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Which of the following was not an advantage that the English and Dutch had over the Portuguese
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They had much better captains
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The VOC was the
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United East India Company
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The Philippines fell to
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Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
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The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was
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Manila
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Under Spanish rule of the Philippines, the native population
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Was pressured to convert to Roman Catholicism
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Jan Pieterszoon Coen was responsible for
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Founding the city of Batavia in the island of Java
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The Dutch policy in Indonesia was
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To control the production of spices
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The most prosperous country in Europe in the seventeenth century was
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The Netherlands
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The Russian territorial expansion into northern Eurasia began in
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The Sixteenth century
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Russian merchants and explorers began the expansion into Siberia in the quest for
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Furs
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The country that finished the Seven Years War with global hegemony was
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England
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In the long term, the Colombian exchange
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Increased world population became of the spread of new food crops
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From 1500 to 1800, the largest contingent of migrants consisted of
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Enslaved Africans
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By 1750, all parts of the world participated in a global trade network in which European's played dominant roles except
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Australia
