Unit 4 AP World History
Which of the following is best concluded about slavery in British North America from the graph above and knowledge of the period?
The increase in the number of slaves reflected a probable increase in the demand for plantation laborers.
Which of the following describes the effect of skin color, ethnicity, and former slave status in Latin America in the late nineteenth century?
There continued to be discrimination on the basis of all three factors.
Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) primarily because they
needed to resolve their territorial disputes after the discovery of ocean routes to the Americas and the Indian Ocean
Which of the following was a major change in transregional trade patterns from 1500 to 1700 ?
Europeans created joint stock companies to engage in overseas trade.
Which of the following was a major long-term effect of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in the late 1490s?
It led to the integration of European merchants into the Indian Ocean economy.
Which of the following factors best explains why the Portuguese did not engage in direct trading relations with West African states until the fifteenth century?
Lack of the necessary navigational and maritime technology
What similar view of Doña Marina is portrayed in both images?
She is portrayed as an essential part of the negotiations.
The production of the plaque in Goa is best understood in the immediate context of which of the following?
The development of trading post empires
Which of the following was the most immediate effect of the Portuguese establishment of a school for navigation in the 1400s?
The development of overseas trade between West Africa and Europe
Which of the following best explains a similar motivation behind the establishment of Portuguese trading posts in Africa and the establishment of Portuguese trading posts in Asia?
The trading posts in both regions were intended to allow the Portuguese to control access to heavily trafficked maritime routes.
Which of the following would best support the assertion that hierarchies based on racial classification emerged after 1500 C.E. to maintain the authority of new elite groups in the Americas?
The use of terms such as mestizo, mulatto and creole
Which of the following best explains an effect of Spanish voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in Europe in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
They greatly increased interest in transoceanic travel and trade in other European countries.
Which of the following best explains a similarity between the earliest English and French voyages across the North Atlantic in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
They were often launched in the hopes of finding alternative sailing routes to Asia.
All of the following have been African contributions to cultures in the Americas EXCEPT
African Monetary Systems
Which of the following accurately describes the effect of the spread of Christianity among most Amerindian societies after 1500 C.E.?
Amerindians maintained local customs by combining indigenous beliefs with elements of Christianity.
Which of the following accurately describes the function of the mit'a system in the Inca Empire?
To compel Inca subjects to work on various state projects for a fixed term each year
The material used to create the plaque best reflects which of the following historical situations in the Indian Ocean region in the period 1450-1750 ?
Trade networks continued to flourish and gave Europeans direct access to precious luxury goods.
In the three centuries after Columbus' voyages, most of the people who came to the Western Hemisphere originated in which of the following regions?
Western Africa
Before 1700, Spain governed its American colonies through a system of
appointed administrators
The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by
increased production of cash crops like sugar
The success of European powers in penetrating the Asian trading system by 1600 can best be explained by the
opening of rich silver mines in Peru and Mexico
The Columbian Exchange involved which of the following new connections in the era 1450-1750?
African population to the Western Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere food to Europe and Africa; African and European diseases to the Western Hemisphere
"Migration of man and his maladies is the chief cause of epidemics. And when migration takes place, those creatures who have been in isolation longest suffer most, for their genetic material has been least tempered by the variety of world diseases. Among the major subdivisions of the species Homo Sapiens, the American Indian probably had the dangerous privilege of the longest isolation from the rest of mankind." Alfred Crosby, world historian, 1967 Which of the following best describes Alfred Crosby's argument in the passage above?
Amerindians' long isolation from the rest of the world had placed them at a biological disadvantage.
Which of the following best describes the impact on African society of the trade depicted on the map?
Gender and family roles were restructured as the male population in West Africa diminished.
Which of the following processes contributed to the emergence of syncretic and new religions in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres during the sixteenth century?
Increases in global interactions
Which of the following represents a significant change in Africa between 1450 C.E. and 1750 C.E.?
Most enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic instead of the Sahara
Which of the following was the most important factor in enabling the Spanish to defeat the Aztec Empire?
The Spanish were able to form military alliances with other indigenous peoples who were enemies of the Aztecs.
During the seventeenth century, one of the reasons Africans participated in the Atlantic slave trade was
The demand for weapons among African elites
Which of the following was a major motivation for European maritime expansion starting in the fifteenth century?
The desire to trade directly with Africans and Asians
"In countries where there is a great scarcity of money, all other saleable goods, and even the labor of men, are given for less money than [in countries] where money is abundant. Thus we see by experience that in France (where money is scarcer than in Spain) bread, wine, cloth, and labor, are worth much less. And even in Spain, in [recent] times when money was scarcer than it is now, saleable goods and labor were given for much less." Martín de Azpilcueta Navarro, Spanish scholar, treatise, 1556 Navarro's economic observations expressed in the passage above are best understood in the context of which of the following?
The influx of silver from the Americas into the Spanish economy
All of the following resulted from the growth of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa EXCEPT
The exclusion of Africa from the emerging global market
Which of the following changes best justifies the claim that the late 1400s mark the beginning of a new period in world history?
The incorporation of the Americas into a broader global network of exchange
Which of the following describes the most important cause of the demographic changes associated with the Columbian Exchange?
The introduction of New World food crops to Afro-Eurasia and the spread of epidemic diseases to the Americas
"Sir, many of our people, keenly desirous of the wares and things of your Kingdoms, which are brought here by your people, and in order to satisfy their voracious appetite, seize many of our people, freed and exempt men, and they kidnap even nobles and the sons of nobles, and our relatives, and take them to be sold to the Whites who are in our Kingdoms." © Basil Davidson, trans., [ital] The African Past[roman] (Curtis Brown, Ltd., 1964) The quotation above comes from a 1526 letter to a European monarch form a king located
on the western coast of Africa
Historians consider the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to be a time of great change in cultivation methods and in the physical landscape of Latin America. Which of the following pairings was most responsible for these changes?
slave labor and sugar
