Age of Exploration Test
The image to the left represents which of the following effects of European colonization in the Americas?
New racial and ethnic populations
What type of policy did Japan institute to control foreign trade?
a closed country policy
The trend shown in the graph through the eighteenth century would be the direct result of
the establishment of the Triangle Trade Route
To Portuguese explorers, the southern coast of West Africa became known as the
Cape of Good Hope.
The best explanation for the population change in S. America between 1400-1750 is
Diseases like smallpox
According to the following excerpt, why did Columbus sail west across the Atlantic Ocean?
He thought it would provide a faster route to Asia
What two main reasons kept China from becoming highly industrialized?
The idea of commerce offended Confucian beliefs and taxes on manufactured goods were high
From 1600 to 1750, the main reasons for the population change in Africa was due to
The Atlantic slave trade
Which of the following is a direct consequence of the decreased Native American population that resulted from the information provided in the diagram:
The Europeans brought African slaves to the New World.
What was the name for the journey of slaves from Africa to America?
The Middle Passage
The products described in the networks depicted on this map illustrate which of the following features of mid-eighteenth century North Atlantic trade?
The links between Eastern and Western hemispheres in the Columbian Exchange.
According to the map titled "The Slave Trade," where were most slave forts located?
The west coast of Africa
Which of the following motivations for exploration is most explicitly reflected in Columbus's letter above?
To spread the Christian religion
What did England export?
manufactured goods
The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494,
established a line of demarcation between territories controlled by Portugal and those controlled by Spain.
This quote by Columbus shows an example of which type of interaction between civilizations?
exchange
What did ships transport on the "middle passage"?
gold and enslaved Africans
What did the West Indies export both to England and to New England, New York, and Philadelphia?
sugar and molasses
According to this author, which factors were influencing the outcome of the conflict?
technology and fear
Which of the following was not an attitude reflected by China's Forbidden City?
the importance of Confucianism in China