Quizzes

In fifteenth century Europe............ (A) European states sought direct access to luxury goods in order to enhance wealth and power. (B) Advances in navigation and weaponry allowed the Europeans to easily subjugate the Indians. (C) European diseases, such as small pox, were introduced to the Indians of the New World. (D) Renaissance humanists encourages European explorers to Christianize the Indians of the New World

(A) European states sought direct access to luxury goods in order to enhance wealth and power.

Columbus' desire to convert the Indians to Christianity as described in the passage above would best justify which of the following state policies? (A) The physical and cultural subjugation of the Indians in the New World (B) Mercantilist economic practices (C) The spread of the Spanish Inquisition to the New World (D) The expansion of the African slave trade

(A) The physical and cultural subjugation of the Indians in the New World

Which of the following would be a reason for an increase in Spanish exploration and colonization of the Americas during the late 15th and early 16th centuries? (A) Competition with the British who had established several colonies in North America (B) Competition with the Portuguese who had established a series of colonies and trading posts along the West African coast (C) Establishment of a refuge for Spanish Muslims and Jews who had been expelled from the Iberian peninsula (D) Participation in the African slave trade

(B) Competition with the Portuguese who had established a series of colonies and trading posts along the West African coast

What was the most important reason for the Spanish to import slaves from Africa to their Empire in South America? (A) As military auxiliaries (B) For conversion to Christianity (C) To do labor the Spanish refused to do (D) To do manufacturing work in cotton factories

(C) To do labor the Spanish refused to do

Which of the following was an economic effect in 16th century Europe that resulted, in part, from Spanish colonization of the Americas? (A) The shifting of economic power from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean states (B) Ottoman domination of land and sea routes in the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean (C) The decline of serfdom in Western Europe (D) The Price Revolution

(D) The Price Revolution