ap world 4.1 and 4.2
All of the following pieces of evidence in the passage directly support the author's claim that the "pestilence" was "terrible" EXCEPT:
The disease led to the arrival of Dominican friars
In the period 1500 to 1750, the population of the Portuguese colony of Brazil grew rapidly and became predominantly African. Which of the following best explains these demographic changes?
The increase in global demand for cash crops such as sugar
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 destination as shown on the map
The increasing demand for labor on cash crop plantations
Which of the following is most likely to have influenced eighteenth-century population trends in both Europe and China
Introduction of Western Hemisphere crops
Which of the following represents a significant change in Africa between 1450 and 1750 CE?
Most enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic instead of the Sahara
Which of the following pieces of evidence does the author use to support his claim that the arrival of the Spanish "destroyed our people"?
The Spanish conquered all Maya towns
Which of the following was the most important factor in enabling the Spanish to defeat the Aztec Empire?
The Spanish were able to form military alliances with other indigenous peoples who were enemies of the Aztecs.
Before 1700, Spain governed its America colonies through a system of
appointed administrators
In the period 1450-1750, which of the following, produced on large plantations by slave labor, were significant commodities in the growing world market
cash crops such as sugar and tabacco
The judge's decision in the case is best understood in the context of colonial authorities' policy of
ensuring that intercommunal conflicts were brought under control before they could disrupt public order
Under the Japanese system of feudalism after 1600, the emperor served as the symbol of authority while real power was held by
the shogun
Which of the following best explains an effect of Spanish voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in Europe in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
they greatly increased interest in transoceanic travel and trade in other European countries
The Columbian Exchange involved which of the following new connections in the era 1450-1750
African population to the Western Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere food to Europe and Africa; African and European diseases to the Western Hemisphere
Which of the following best illustrates the argument described in the passage above
Amerindians were killed in large numbers by disease such as smallpox and measles
Which of the following best describes Alfred Crosby's argument in the passage above?
Amerindians' long isolation from the rest of the world had placed them at a biological disadvantage
In recent decades, many world historians have challenged the commonly held view that Europeans controlled the largest share of world trade in the seventeenth through the eighteenth centuries. Which of the following evidence from the period would best support this historical reinterpretation?
European merchants transported only a fraction of the good shipped globally
Which of the following best describes the impact on African society of the trade depicted on the map
Gender and family roles were restructured as the male population in West Africa diminished
A likely purpose for including the religious figure in the plaque was to show that
Portuguese naval activities in the Indian Ocean region were favored by divine forces
The map above illustrates which of the following
Predominant areas of origin and destinations of African slaves in the fifteenth through nineteenth century
Which of the following most directly contributed to the geographic expansion of Safavid trade during the period from 1450 to 1750
Safavid exchanges with European trading-post empires in Asia
What similar view of Dona Marina is portrayed in both images
She is portrayed as an essential part of the negotiations
Historians consider the sixteenth centuries to be a time of great change in cultivation methods and in the physical landscape of Latin America. Which of the following pairings was most responsible for these changes
Slave labor and sugar
Which of the following statements would challenge the arguments made in the passage.
Strong governments in the slave-exporting regions of West Africa
Which of the following would complicate generalizations made from this world economy theory
Strong monarchies int he slave-exporting regions of West Africa
The use of objects such as the one shown in the image best illustrates which of the following historical processes from 1450 to 1750?
Some Asian states sought to limit foreign encroachment in their internal affairs
Which of the following most directly facilitated the conquest alluded to in the passage
Spanish advantages over native American population in terms of technology and disease immunity
In which of the following regions between 1450 and 1740 was Christian missionary activity met with the LEAST amount of resistance by non-European states?
The Americas
Which of the following pieces of evidence does the author use to support his implicit argument that Maya society underwent a dramatic cultural change in the sixteenth century
The Maya were converted to Christianity
The production of the plaque in Goa best understood in the immediate context of which of the following
The development of trading-post empires
Which of the following would illustrate an objection to this world economic theory
The development of manufacturing in colonial Latin America
The historical trend represented by the table is most similar to which of the following
The impact of the Columbian Exchange on American populations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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
the object shown in the image is best understood in the context of which of the following developments between 1450-1750
The influence of European merchants and missionaries along Asian maritime trade routes
The activities of Inez de Leyria's father as described int he passage best support which of the following conclusions about the period 1450-1750
The intensification of commercial and diplomatic activity across Eurasia was accompanied by increased missionary activity
Which of the following historical developments most strongly contributed to the mapmaker's depiction of West Africa and the southern half of the world in Map 2
The limited geographic knowledge of western Europe map makers as a
Which of the following best explains the overall population trend shown in the table
The spread of epidemic diseases as a result of contact with Westerners
Muslim maritime activities in the Indian Ocean would be most disrupted by which of the following sixteenth century developments
The voyages of Zheng He
Which of the following best explains a similarity between the earliest English and French voyages across the North Atlantic in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
They were often launched in the hopes of finding alternative sailing routes to Asia
which of the following accurately describes the function of the mit'a system in the Inca Empire
To compel Inca subjects to work on carious state projects for a fixed term each year
The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by
increased production of cash crops like sugar
All of the following factors contributed to significant growth in worldwide population from 1750 through 1900 EXCEPT
new grain crops developed in the Green Revolution
The quotation above comes from a 1526 letter to a European monarch from a king located
on the western coast of Africa
During the period 1600-1800, the leaders of China, Korea, and Japan all had policies that
regulated interactions with foreigners
An important reason for China's rapid population increase in the seventeenth and eighteenth century was
the introduction of new crops from the Americas
The main arguments of the two sources are most similar in their emphasis on the
significance of European access to precious metals from the Americas
The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by the expansion in the production of
sugar
between 1450 and 1750, which of the following were produced on large plantations by slave labor for the world market
sugar and tabacco
During the seventeenth century, one of the reasons Africans participated in the Atlantic slave trade was?
the demand for weapons among African elites
All of the following resulted from the growth of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa EXCEPT
the exclusion of Africa from the emerging global market
The two interpretation of economic history of the early modern period differ most strongly concerning
the relative importance of Europe in the global economy
