APWH Unit 6 Test

Based on the map above and your knowledge of world history, the strategies of the Europeans in the Indian Ocean region were primarily

.to control points of trade and tax the passage of goods as they passed through those points.

The number of slaves shipped from Africa to the Americas peaked in the

1700s

The first direct and sustained link between the Americas and Asia was the trade in

Silver

Which of the following distinguished the Atlantic slave trade in the Americas from past instances of slavery in world history?

Slave status was associated with race.

How did the slave trade affect African states?

Some African states depended on revenues from the slave trade.

Which of the following is true of slavery in the premodern Islamic world?

Some slaves acquired prominent military or political status.

Which of the following was a consequence of the Atlantic slave trade?

The African diaspora

According to this map, "The Transatlantic Slave System," the majority of slaves from West Africa were sent to which of the following?

The West Indies

Which of the following developments led to a major shift away from the type of labor described in the passage above?

The spread of pandemic disease by the European colonizers

The most likely cause for the statistics in the chart above is

an increased need for labor as European maritime empires created plantation economies in the Americas.

The origins of the Atlantic slave trade were associated with the

production of sugar.

In the sixteenth century as in earlier times, the most desired international commodity produced in Southeast Asia was

spices

Which of the following is the best explanation of a cause for migration from Europe to the Americas between 1530 and 1700?

Colonization

Which of the following describes a feature of the North American, but not the Russian, fur trade in the early modern period?

Competition between European traders meant that furs were obtained largely through commercial negotiations with the local population.

Dutch actions in the passage best illustrate which of the following historical development in the early modern era?

Economic disputes led to rivalries and conflict between states.

"The Dutch, by opposing the Spanish" most clearly reflects which of the following developments of the time period?

Empires achieved increased scope and influence around the world, shaping and being shaped by the diverse populations they incorporated.

Which of the following statements is true of the West African slave trade?

European merchants waited on board their ships or in fortified port cities to purchase slaves from African merchants and elites.

What commodity was called soft gold in early modern commerce?

Furs

One of Portugal's trading posts, based on the map above, was

Goa

The final destination of silver in the global economy was often

India and China.

Which of the following describes how the fur trade affected indigenous peoples in North America?

It generated warfare among different groups of Native Americans.

Which of the following is an example of the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on African societies?

Judicial proceedings were manipulated to generate victims for the slave trade.

Which of the following best explains a reason for the difference between the numbers of slaves shipped to Brazil and the Caribbean and the number of slaves shipped to North America?

Sugar plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were extremely profitable and required large numbers of slaves.

Which of the following describes a difference between how the British East India Company operated in Mughal India and how the Dutch East India Company operated in Indonesia in the seventeenth century?

The British negotiated treaties with local Indian rulers, while the Dutch established control through conquest and colonization.

Which of the following developments in the early modern period provided incentives for Europeans to go into the fur trade?

The Little Ice Age

Which of the following was established as a Spanish colony in the sixteenth century?

The Philippines

Which of the following was a result of the fur trade in North America in the early modern period?

The dependence of Native Americans on European trade goods

The activities mentioned above were directly responsible for what new development in world history?

The use of a global currency for trade

How did the decision by the Chinese state to require payment of taxes in silver in the 1570s affect the global economy?

The value of silver around the world skyrocketed.

What fact about Chinese commercial relations with other states can be derived from the passage above?

There was a high demand for Chinese goods outside of China.

How did the Tokugawa shoguns treat Europeans in Japan in the seventeenth century?

They expelled all Europeans except the Dutch, who were allowed to trade at a single site.

Which describes the role that Europeans played in the economy of the early modern era?

They were essentially middlemen funneling American silver to Asia.

Which of the following was an incentive for the Portuguese to find a direct sea route to Asia?

To circumvent the Muslim and Venetian monopolies on the trade in Eastern goods

Which of the following experienced a long-held monopoly of the European trade in Eastern goods?

Venice

Which of the following statements most accurately describes slavery prior to the rise of the transatlantic slave trade?

While slavery was commonplace in the Mediterranean region, there was little slave trade within Africa.

The origins of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century global silver supplies were

the Spanish Americas and Japan.

The fact that Europeans often had to pay for Asian spices and textiles in cash led to which of the following?

An intense desire for precious metals