Western Civilization Quiz 14

Who was Prester John?

A mythical Christian king in Africa

Which of the following best characterizes the immigration patterns (forced and unforced) of Europeans and Africans to the Americas between 1500 and 1800?

About four times as many Africans migrated to America as did Europeans

Most women who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were

Africans

The European voyages of the fifteenth century derived from a desire to share in the wealth of the

Indian Ocean trade

Bartolomé de Las Casas asserted that the

Indians had human rights

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

How did Europeans initially justify the enslavement of Africans?

Enslavement benefited the Africans by bringing Christianity to them

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

The motivations for European explorers included all of the following accept

Fear of the Black Death

When Vasco da Gama arrived in the Indian Ocean, how did he navigate these unknown waters?

He hired an Indian guide

The group of people who benefited the most from large price increases in the sixteenth century was the

Middle class

Who resisted the efforts of the Portuguese to establish themselves in the Indian Ocean trade?

Muslim controlled port cities

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

After losing access to slave trading from the Black Sea, the Genoese obtained all of the following as slaves except

Portuguese peasants

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 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 Portuguese merchants obtain most of their slaves in Africa?

They traded for slaves with local leaders