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The Treaty of Tordesillas divided

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the New World between Spain and Portugal.

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The greatness of Ming China was due to the accomplishments of the two monarchs, Kangxi and Qianlong, who ruled from the mid-seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century.

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False

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The European nation that established a settlement at Africa's Cape of Good Hope was

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the Dutch Republic

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The sea captain who first made a sea voyage directly from Europe to India was

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Vasco da Gama

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The first European nation to establish formal diplomatic relations with China was

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Russia

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Encomienda were

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a Spanish system devised to collect tribute from natives and to use their labor.

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The Inca Empire was the great Mesoamerican state when the Spanish arrived in the early sixteenth century.

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False

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Catholic Christianity failed to take root in China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because

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of opposition by the pope to "ancestor worship."

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The local British population in India's Fort William was imprisoned in the

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"black hole of Calcutta."

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The Mesoamerica civilization which existed at the time of European exploration was the

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Aztec

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Portugal's handicap in its attempt to dominate Southeast Asian trade was that

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the kingdom was too small, lacking a sufficient population to govern an empire.

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An extensive multiracial society appeared first in

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Latin America

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The financial center of Europe in the seventeenth century was

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Amsterdam

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What was not part of the Columbian exchange?

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Potatoes from Europe and olive trees from the New World.

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The religious crusading motive for exploration was strongest in

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Spain and Portugal.

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Before the nineteenth century, which nation(s) or continent was least affected by European power and influence?

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China and Japan

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The major critic of the Spanish treatment of the American natives was

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Bartolome de Las Casas.

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The mainland states of Southeast Asia had better success in resisting European encroachment than did the Spice Islands and Malay states because

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they were more cohesive politically with strong monarchies.

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Native Americans were not widely used as slaves on sugar plantations because

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their populations were too small due to European diseases.

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The Italian merchant whose tales of the court of Kublai Khan popularized China in Europe was

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Marco Polo

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The British East India Company official who fought off the French threat in India was

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Sir Robert Clive.

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The development of a Portuguese maritime empire encompassing Malacca and the Malay Peninsula was achieved, in part, through

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ruthless and murderous attacks on Arab settlers in the region.

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In order to obtain slaves for sale to Europeans, local African rulers frequently raided defenseless villages in search of unsuspecting victims.

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True

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The major European disease that resulted in high rates of mortality among the natives of the New World was

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smallpox

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Spanish expansion and exploration of the New World was best exemplified by

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the conquest of the Aztec Empire by Cortés.

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The African slave trade

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increased the number of wars in Africa because of the increasing demand for prisoners who could be sold as slaves.

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Which of the following statements best applies to the economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth century Europe?

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The joint stock company enabled the raising of spectacular sums of capital for world trading ventures.

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Marco Polo did not travel to the court of Khubilai Khan.

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False

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The major western rival to the British in India in the seventeenth century was

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France

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Prince Henry the Navigator established the first school for mariners at his court in

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Portugal

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Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the number of African slaves shipped to the New World is estimated at

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ten million

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The Chinese dynasty which replaced the Ming in the seventeenth century and which came from Manchuria was the

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Qing

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In Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu

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expelled all missionaries.

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The conquistador who conquered and looted the Inca Empire in 1531 was

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Pizarro

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Tokugawa Ieyasu established the longest-lasting of the Japanese shogunates, which retained power from the early sixteenth century until 1868.

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True

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The European nation that had the first direct contact with China since Marco Polo was

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Portugal

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The European nation that took over the spice trade from Portugal was

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the Dutch Republic.

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The first permanent English settlement in North America was

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Jamestown.

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In the 1440s, among the first profits the Portuguese derived from their maritime exploration and returning ships came from the sale of

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African slaves

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The most famous map projection in history is

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that of Gerardus Mercator.

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A Mercator projection

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shows the true shape of landmasses in a limited area on a map.

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