Quiz 14
Who was Prester John?
A mythical Christian king in Africa believed to be a descendant of one of the three kings who visited Jesus after his birth.
The motivations for European explorers included all of the following except
Black Death
Which of the following best characterizes the role of Europe in the world trading system prior to the voyage of Columbus?
Europe was a minor outpost that produced few products desired by other civilizations.
How did the Spanish monarchy seek to maintain its control over its colonies?
The monarchy established intendants with broad administrative and financial authority who were responsible directly to the monarchy.
Most women who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were
Africans
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.
What became Cortés's crucial advantage in his conquest of the Mexica Empire?
Cortés was able to exploit internal dissention within the Mexica Empire.
How did English colonies differ from other major European colonies in their treatment of African women?
English masters rarely freed the children that they fathered with female slaves
How did Europeans initially justify the enslavement of Africans?
Enslavement benefited the Africans by bringing Christianity to them
When Vasco da Gama arrived in the Indian Ocean, how did he navigate these unknown waters?
He hired an Indian guide
According to his agreement with the Spanish Crown, what rewards would Columbus receive if he found a water route to Asia?
He would be named viceroy over any territories he discovered and receive one-tenth of the material rewards of the journey.
The European voyages of the fifteenth century derived from a desire to share in the wealth of the
Indian Ocean trade
What did Columbus believe he had found when he arrived in the Caribbean?
Islands off the coast of Japan
Who resisted the efforts of the Portuguese to establish themselves in the Indian Ocean trade?
Muslim-controlled port cities
In the fifteenth century, two rival Islamic empires dominated the Middle East, the Turkish Ottomans and the
Persian Safavids
After losing access to slave trading from the Black Sea, the Genoese obtained all of the following as slaves except
Portuguese peasants.
Portugal's participation in European expansion was given critical support by
Prince Henry
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.
In chronological order, what were the three successive commercial empires established by Europeans in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries?
The Portuguese, the Spanish, and the Dutch
How did the encomienda system function?
The Spanish Crown granted conquerors the right to employ or demand tribute from groups of Native Americans in exchange for providing food and shelter
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.
What was the primary cause of the emergence of inflation in Spain in the sixteenth century?
The inability of Spanish agriculture and manufacturing to meet the growing demand for goods
How did the English and French seek a route to East Asia?
They sought a northwest passage across North America.
How did Portuguese merchants obtain most of their slaves in Africa?
They traded for slaves with local leaders.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
divided the Atlantic Ocean with an imaginary line, giving Spain control of everything west of the line and Portugal everything east of the line.
The group of people who benefited the most from large price increases in the sixteenth century was the
middle class
Settlers from the Massachusetts colony dispersed into new communities such as Connecticut and Rhode Island because
of religious disputes among the colonists.
At the time of his death, Columbus believed the islands he found were
off the coast of Asia.
William Shakespeare's genius lay in all of the following except
the use of clear and unadorned expressions.
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company
took over much of the East Indies from Portugal.