WHAP Unit 4 MCQ Review

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All of the following have been African contributions to cultures in the Americas EXCEPT

African monetary systems

The Colombian Exchange involved which of the following new connections between 1450-1750?

African population to the Western Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere food to Europe and Africa; African and European disease to the Western Hemisphere

The Mughal empire and the Ottoman Empire before 1700 CE shared which of the following characteristics?

Both empires were religiously and culturally diverse

Which of the following describes an accurate similarity between the Qing and Russian empires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Both had vast territories with peoples of various ethnicities and languages

Which of the following characterized economic systems in Latin America and in Southeast Asia during the sixteenth century?

Both incorporated forced labor

What do the encomienda and mit'a systems used in Spanish colonies and the labor system used on Brazilian sugarcane plantations have in common?

Both were coerced labor systems designed to enrich European colonizers.

Which of the following conclusions is supported by the graph above?

Demand for products produced by slaves was increasing

In the period 1550-1750, most of the world's ten largest cities were located in which of the following regions?

East Asia

From 1500 to 1800, the largest contingent of migrants consisted of

Enslaved Africans

This passage could be best used to explain which of the following developments in the Americas between 1500-1750

Enslaved peoples and their descendants used violent means to escape oppression and maintain freedom.

Which explorer is known for circumnavigating the globe and finding a short route around South America?

Ferdinand Magellan

Which of the following countries or regions led the world in the production of cotton cloth in 1700?

India

As Europeans were expanding trade networks in Japan, Christianity was tolerated at first. How did that change in the beginning of the 1600s?

Japan persecuted Christians and limited foreign influence

The table best supports which of the following conclusions about Japanese trade in the seventeenth century?

Japanese imports of foreign goods were funded primarily by the export of precious metals

The specific technological innovation here that improved deep water navigation was the

Lateen sails

World Economic Theory, 1500-1800 The world economic system that developed after 1500 features unequal relationships between Western Europe and dependent economies in other regions. Strong governments and large armies few European dominance of world trade. Dependent economies used slave or serf labor to produce cheap foods and minerals for Europe and they imported more expensive European items in turn. Dependent regions has weak governments which made European penetration and slave systems possible. Which of the following is an illustration of this world economic theory?

Latin America exported sugar and silver and imported manufactured items.

"Americans... who live within the Spanish system occupy a position in society as mere consumers. Yet even this status is surrounded with balling restrictions, such as being forbidden to grow European crops, or to store products that are royal monopolies, or to establish factories of a type the Peninsula itself does not possess. To this, add the exclusive trading privileges, even in articles of prime necessity... in short, do you wish to know what our future held? — simply the cultivation of the fields of indigo, grain, coffee, sugarcane, cacao, and cotton, cattle raising on the board plains, hinting wild game in the jungles; digging in the earth to mine its gold." — Simon Bolivar! "Jamaica Letter," 1815 Bolivar was describing the effects of which of the following economic policies?

Mercantilism

In the 15th century, European innovations in cartography, navigation, and ship-building were based on knowledge developed in earlier civilization in all the following regions EXCEPT

Oceania

Which of the following regions was LEAST affected by the expansion of European trade networks in the period 1450 CE to 1750 CE?

Oceania

Which of the following would best support the conclusion that the Columbian Exchange involved more profound consequences than did earlier biological exchanges in world history?

Previous exchanges did not involve the world's two hemispheres

What factor played the greatest role in determining a person's social status in Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas by the 17th century?

Racial ancestry

What were the long-term effects of navigations techniques invented in Europe combined with other inventions from around the world?

Rapid expansion of exploration and global trade

During the period 1450 to 1750, which of the following commodities was most responsible for transforming the global economy?

Silver

The maritime empires that increase extensive trade and sea travel are:

Spain, Portugal, France, and Great Britain

The Portuguese views the Atlantic Ocean islands as the perfect location for the cultivation of

Sugarcane

The transfer of which of the following as part of the Columbian exchange had the greatest effect on human migration patterns before 1800?

Sugarcane

Which of the following was the most important factor in the development of new long-distance maritime commercial patterns in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The European settlement and exploitation of natural resources in the Americas

This journey brought Africans across the Atlantic for the purpose of seeking them as slaves

The Middle Passage

The portrait of more or jahangir in this image is best seen as evidence of which of the following?

The Mughals' toleration of different religious traditions within their state

Which of the following accurately describes a significant difference between the Ottoman and Mughal Empires in the early seventeenth century?

The Ottomans ruled over people who were predominantly Muslim, while the Mughals did not.

Which did disease decimate the indigenous populations of the Western Hemisphere?

The Western Hemisphere had developed in relative isolation from Europe, Asia, and Africa for thousands of years, so the people had no natural immunities to diseases from the eastern hemisphere.

The square areas in the center show plazas, temples, pyramids, places to display sacrificial victims, and an area to house exotic animals sent by subject states. Historians estimate that the population of Tenochtitlan was at least 100,000. The creation of those particular image of the Aztec capital was part of which of the following processes occurring at the time?

The absorption of the Aztec Empire into the Spanish colonial system

Some world historians have argued that the growth of European influence in the period 1450-1750 was due in large part to non-European inventions. Which invention below would support this statement?

The compass

Which development was most important in increasing Spanish interest in the Americas in the first decades of the 16th century?

The discovery of precious metals in the Inca and Aztec empires.

Which of the following changes best justifies the claim that the late 1400s mark the beginning of a new period in world history?

The incorporation of the Americas into a broader global network of exchange

Which of the following is best concluded about slavery in British North America from the graph above and knowledge of the period?

The increase in the number of slaves reflected a probable increase in the demand for plantation laborers.

Which of the following best explains the relative volume of trade to different destinations as shown on the map?

The increasing demand for labor on cash crop plantations

"[In the 1500s and 1600s] maize, manioc, sweet potatoes, peanuts, squash, and cacao quickly became staples of west African agriculture. The first three spread rapidly over wide stretches of the continent. Presumably, the resemblance of the African climate to that of Central and South America facilitated the rapid acceptance of these new crops. So did the shifting 'garden' type of cultivation prevailing in Africa. In Africa, no fixed system of crop rotation or established agricultural routine inhibited experimentation with these new plants." William McNeill, American historian, The Rise of the West, 1963. The process described by McNeill in the passage is an example of which of the following trends in the period?

The intensification of agricultural labor and productivity

An important reason for China's rapid population increase in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was

The introduction of new crops from the Americas

Henry Hudson's exploration and settlement of New Amsterdam became important due to

The location and prosperity where a major river flowed into the ocean

Which of the following best exemplifies mercantilism as it was practiced in the Atlantic trading system by 1750?

The protection of European merchant companies by their respective governments

What was a major effect in Africa of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?

The ratio of males to females became unbalanced

The images above best provide evidence of which of the following consequences of colonial expansion in the period 1450 to 1750?

The transfer of wealth to new elites and the development of new gender roles

Which of the following would best support the assertion that hierarchies based on racial classification emerged after 1500 CE to maintain the authority of new elite groups in the Americas?

The use of terms such as mestizo, mulatto, and creole

Which of the following was an important continuity from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing dynasty in the seventeenth century?

The use of the examination system and other Confucian bureaucratic practices

"When the Portuguese go from Macao, the most southern port city in China, to Japan, they carry much white silk, gold, perfume, and porcelain and they bring from Japan nothing but silver. They have a great ship that goes to Japan every year, and brings back more than 600,000 coins worth of Japanese silver. The Portuguese use this Japanese silver to their great advantage in China. The Portuguese bring from China gold, perfume, silk, copper, porcelain and many other luxury goods." -Ralph Fitch, a British merchant, 1599. Which conclusion about the Portuguese is best supported by the passage above?

They made great profits transporting goods between Asian countries

Which of the following best explains a similarity between the English and French voyages across the Atlantic in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

They were often launched in the hopes of finding alternative routes to Asia

In their attempt to control the spice trade in the Indian Ocean, the Europeans during the period between the 16th and 18th centuries

We're met with limited success because of the lack of human numbers and military power

In the three centuries after Columbus' voyages, most of the people who came to the Western Hemisphere originated in which of the following regions?

Western Africa

Which of the following was a major environmental effect on the European establishment of plantation agriculture in the Americas during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

Widespread deforestation and depletion of soil nutrients

Which of the following best described patriarchal gender systems?

Women are inferior and must be protected by men?

Many forced and free migrants practiced the religious beliefs of their homelands as a way of adapting to unfamiliar experiences and environments in their destination societies. Which of the following processes best supports the historical arguments above?

african slaves in americas integrating African beliefs into their practice of Christianity

Before 1700, Spain governed its

appointed administrators

The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to

force merchant ships to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties

In the long term, the Columbian exchange

increased world population because of the spread of new food crops

Spain and Portugal signed the treaty of Tordesillas (1494) primarily because they

needed to resolve their territorial disputes after the discovery of ocean routes to the Americas and the Indian Ocean

Between 1450 and 1750, which of the following were produced on large plantations by slave labor for the world market

sugar and tobacco

Which of the following was NOT one of the main inspirations for European exploration?

the desire to conquer China and India

The development of Indian Ocean trade routes and the Transatlantic trade routes were similar in that both depended on

understanding of current and wind patterns

under Spanish rule of the Philippines, the native population

was pressured to convert to Roman Catholicism


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