Ap world History unit 4

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 argument above?

African slaves in the Americas integrating African beliefs into their practice of Christianity

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

The increasing demand for labor on cash crop plantations

The expansion of trade routes along the coast of Africa as shown on Map 2 was most directly facilitated by which of the following?

Improved ship designs and navigational technologies

Which of the following is most likely to have influenced eighteenth-century population trends in both Europe and China?

Introduction of Western Hemisphere crops

The establishment of Dutch economic and political influence in Southeast Asia as shown in Map 1 was most directly a result of which of the following?

Joint-stock trading companies

Which of the following factors best explains why the Portuguese did not engage in direct trading relations with West African states until the fifteenth century?

Lack of the necessary navigational and maritime technology

Commander Cotton's reaction to the events in Jamaica, in the notice above, might best be understood in the context of which of the following?

Mounting resistance to slavery in the Americas, reflected in challenges to imperial authority

In the period 1450 to 1750, the intensification of connections between the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere had which of the following effects on religious practices?

Syncretic forms of religion such as Vodun developed.

During the seventeenth century, one of the reasons Africans participated in the Atlantic slave trade was

bribery of african leaders by carribean plantation owners

During the period 1450-1750, the Ottoman and Mughal empires shifted to

favor strict Islamic practices throughout society (idkkkk)

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

Sugar and tobacco

The economic theory of mercantilism would be consistent with which of the following statements?

A government should direct the economy to maximize exports.

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

African monetary systems

Which of the following best explains why the painting was seen as a challenge to social conventions when it was painted?

Caribbean society was built on racial hierarchies that generally reserved elite status for people of European ancestry.

Which of the following accurately describes the effect of the spread of Christianity among most Amerindian (American) societies after 1500 C.E.?

Christianity completely supplanted Amerindian religious beliefs and practices showery after the conquest.

Which of the following was a major similarity among European colonial empires in the Americas in the period 1450-1750 ?

Enslavement of African peoples and subjugation of Amerindians (Americans)

Which of the following was a major change in trans-regional trade patterns from 1500 to 1700 ?

Europeans created joint stock companies to engage in overseas trade.

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.

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 populations in terms of technology and disease immunity

In which of the following regions between 1450 and 1750 was Christian missionary activity met with the LEAST amount of resistance by non-European states?

The Americas

Muslim maritime activities in the Indian Ocean would be most disrupted by which of the following sixteenth-century developments?

The arrival of Portuguese and other Europeans

A historian could best use the passage as evidence for which of the following?

The creation of a new political and economic elite in the immediate aftermath of the European conquest

Which of the following best characterizes world trade in the period 1450 to 1750 ?

The demand for Asian commodities was financed by New World silver.

Which of the following most directly led to the arrival of substantial numbers of Africans in the Americas at the time of the painting?

The expansion of the plantation system for growing sugarcane and other crops.

The object shown in the image is best understood in the context of which of the following developments between 1450 and 1750 ?

The influence of European merchants and missionaries along Asian maritime trade routes

Navarro's economic observations expressed in the passage above are best understood in the context of which of the following?

The influx of silver from the Americas into the Spanish economy

Which of the following describes the most important cause of the demographic changes associated with the Columbian Exchange?

The introduction of New World food crops to Afro-Eurasia and the spread of epidemic diseases to the Americas

Which of the following best explains a similar motivation behind the establishment of Portuguese trading posts in Africa and the establishment of Portuguese trading posts in Asia?

The trading posts in both regions were intended to allow the Portuguese to control access to heavily trafficked maritime routes. not for sure answer

Which of the following would best support the assertion that hierarchies based on racial classification emerged after 1500 C.E. 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 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 is the most likely purpose of Titu Cusi's letter?

To characterize the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire as unjust and illegitimate

Between 1500 and 1800, Europeans were primarily interested in tropical colonies in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and in the Caribbean because

large profits could be made from products like sugar, coffee, and pepper

The success of European powers in penetrating the Asian trading system by 1600 can best be explained by the

opening of rich silver mines in Peru and Mexico

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

silver