Hist ch1-14
How did Portuguese merchants obtain most of their slaves in Africa?
they traded for slaves with local leaders
What was Hernan Cortes's crucial advantage in his conquest of the Mexica Empire?
Cortes was able to exploit internal dissention within the Mexica Empire
The European voyages of the fifteenth century were derived from a desire to share in the wealth of the _______________ trade
Indian Ocean
What did Columbus believe he had found when he arrived in the Caribbean?
Islands off the coast of Japan
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?
It divided the Atlantic Ocean, giving Spain control of everything west of an imaginary line and Portugal everything east of the line
Who resisted the Portuguese efforts to gain control over Indian Ocean trade?
Muslim-controlled port cities
How did Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe affect Spanish colonization?
The great distance of the Pacific convinced the Spanish to abandon efforts to trade in Asia and develop their American colonies instead
How did the English and French seek a route to East Asia?(They sought _______________)
a northwest passage across North America
How did justifications for slavery change from the fifteenth to eighteenth century? (Arguments supporting slavery _______________)
began to focus more on science and nature and less on religion
Which of the following was a major motivation for European exploration?
desire for material profit
How did the Turks expansion of the Ottoman Empire and their conquest of the Byzantine Empire and its capital Constantinople in 1453 influence European exploration?
it forced Europeans to search for alternate trade routes to China, bypassing the overland routes now controlled by the Ottoman Empire
At the time of his death, Columbus believed the islands he found were _______________
off the coast of Asia
How did the introduction of Ptolemy's Geography mislead European cartographers? (Ptolemy asserted that _______________)
the world was much smaller than it actually is, indicating that Asia was not far removed from Europe to the west
Settlers from the Massachusetts colony dispersed into new communities such as Connecticut and Rhode Island because _______________
there were religious disputes among the colonists
How did Europeans initially justify the enslavement of Africans?
enslavement benefited Africans by bringing Christianity to them