Chapter 7 world history
According to the map titled "The Slave Trade, The British imported approximately how many slaves to North America?
0.5 Million
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789
A Slave Ship
The Columbian Exchange caused all of the following EXCEPT
African diseases were introduced to Europe
What explorer was North and South America named after?
Amerigo Vespucci
The practice of "indentured labor" in the seventeenth century (1600s) can best be described as
An agreement to work for some years in exchange for passage to the New World
According to the map titled "The Slave Trade, the greatest number of African slaves were taken to
Brazil
Which of the following consequences of the Columbian Exchange MOST affected Native Americans in the sixteenth century (1500s)?
Diseases causing the Great Dying
Which Native American civilization did Pizarro conqueror?
Inca
What was one goal of mercantilism?
Increasing the wealth of the parent country by increase trade exports from colonies
Between 1500 and 1800, Europeans were primarily interested in tropical colonies in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and in the Caribbean because
Large profits could be made from products like sugar, coffee, and pepper
Which of the following factors helped bring about the rapid fall of both the Aztec and Inca empires?
Mass numbers of Indians died or were weakened by foreign diseases
What was the most important new food introduced into European diets by the Columbian Exchange?
Potatoes
What major mine in Bolivia produced 80% of the world's silver resulting in increased Spanish wealth?
Potosi
What role did some African states play in the slave trade?
Some African states kidnapped and delivered slaves from the interior to the coast
The trend shown on the graph above was caused by the expansion in the production of
Sugar
Which of the following was one result of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The Spanish Empire was larger than the Portuguese Empire
Which of the following events created economic conditions that motivated Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492?
The fall of Constantinople to the Turks, which cut off trade routes to Europe
According to the map titled "The Slave Trade," where were most slave forts located?
The west coast of Africa
The map above illustrates what major system?
Triangular Trade
In which New World society did the slave population grow mainly through natural increase and not continued importation?
Virginia and South Carolina