Chapter 2: Old Worlds, New Worlds
One of the consequences of political centralization in Europe was
a better ability to manage colonies
What was the first continent to experience Europe's expansionist ideas
Africa
Who controlled sub-Saharan trade routes in the fifteenth century?
African kingdoms
The ___ and the growth of the Ottoman Empire reduced Portuguese access to traditional sources of slave labor for their sugar plantations.
Black Death
The conquest of which country served as a model for England's colonization of America?
Ireland
The dominant Islamic Empire during the 15th and 16th century was the
Ottoman Empire
Hernan de Soto explored
Peru and the Southeast of America
By the 16th century, England had adopted the ____ Christian faith.
Protestant
One of the advantages that allowed the Spanish to intimidate and eventually defeat the Aztecs was
advanced metal weaponry
The mines in the New Spanish World was worked by
black slaves, white workers, and Indians
The Spanish Empire in the New World was governed primarily by
bureaucrats
One of the consequences of Hernan de Soto's venture into North America was the
decentralization of native chiefdoms
Characteristics that the Aztecs and the Spanish civilizations shared
expansionist aims, merchants, skilled craftsmen, and guilds, a largely rural and agricultural population, powerful noble and priestly classes, and large cities.
What was threatened by inadequate infrastructure and constant warfare in early modern Europe?
food supply
A significant factor in the Aztec defeat was the
internal opposition to Aztec rule
Early modern Europe was volatile because of its
rampant crime
Two members of the 1584 expedition to Virginia produced a text that
served as a key source of information on North America and its people
What killed the most American Indians in the early years of European colonization?
smallpox