History 122 Quiz 1
The first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope was:
Bartolomeu Dias
Which of the following cities was NOT a Portuguese trading post? ; Melaka / Bombay / Sao Jorge da Mina / Hormuz / Goa
Bombay
When he reached ______, Columbus sent delegates to seek the court of the emperor of China.
Cuba
The first circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1522 by:
Ferdinand Magellan's crew
Russian merchants and explorers began the expansion into Siberia in the quest for:
Furs
The explorer who led three expeditions into the Pacific in the eighteenth century was:
James Cook
The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was:
Manila
The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was:
Portugal
The Portuguese viewed the Atlantic Ocean islands as the perfect location for the cultivation of:
Sugarcane
Which of the following was NOT one of the main inspirations for European exploration?
The Desire to conquer China and India
Ferdinand Magellan established a trade route between Mexico and:
The Philippines
Which of the following was NOT an advantage the English and Dutch had over the Portuguese?
They had much better captains
The VOC was the:
United East India Company.
The Portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was:
Vasco Da Gama
The Dutch policy in Indonesia was to:
control the production of spices.
The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to:
force merchant ships to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties.
Christopher Columbus's decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on:
his miscalculation of the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan.
In the long term, the Columbian exchange:
increased world population because of the spread of new food crops.
The reconquista came to an end in 1492 when:
the Muslim kingdom of Granada fell to Spanish Catholic forces.
Under Spanish rule of the Philippines, the native population:
was pressured to convert to Roman Catholicism.