Chapter 12: European Expansion (1450-1700 C.E.)

The potato became the agricultural basis of Incan civilization because

All these answers are correct.

The spread of European culture often resulted in

All these answers are correct.

As a result of European exploration,

Christian missionaries other than Pedro Claver and a few others paid more attention to converting native Americans than to converting Africans.

Who of the following commenced the voyage around the world that would be completed by Sevastian Elcano, after this man was killed in a local war in the Philippines?

Ferdinand Magellan

The Venetian who traveled to China and who wrote a book of his experiences was

Marco Polo.

The first European country to undertake exploration was

Portugal.

Christopher Columbus

always believed that he had arrived on the outskirts of Asia, not far from the great and wealthy Asian empires.

Portuguese exploration accomplished all of the following EXCEPT

discovering "Prester John."

All of the following were mercantilist policies pursued by governments EXCEPT

encouraging high wages to increase national purchasing power.

In combination with other factors, one major reason for the great inflation of the sixteenth century was probably the

great influx of silver from the New World.

The tale of Maria Sibylla Merian tells us what about both scientific interest and the New World?

how previously-unknown plants and animals of the New World could stimulate the discipline of natural history

The New World agriculture developed in central Mexico around 5500 B.C.E. spread slowly because

it was difficult for crops to spread north and south, because different latitudes yielded different growing seasons.

Between 1550 and 1700, European states

often commissioned individuals as "privateers" to raid the shipping of competing nations without engaging in a formal war.

Christian missionaries to Asia

often tended to present Christianity in native forms, with priests adopting characteristics of Buddhists in Japan and Confucians in China.

In the "commercial revolution" of the sixteenth century, which of the following did NOT occur?

reduced government trade barriers and reduced economic regulation

African slavery in America was based on raising cash crops for export. Several crops were raised by slave labor, but the outstanding crop was

sugar.

The principal Native American empires on the eve of European exploration were

the Aztec and the Inca.

The basic principle of mercantilism was that

the amount of the world's wealth was fixed, so that one country could increase its trade and manufacturing only at the expense of others.

The major reason for the brutal Spanish treatment of natives in the New World was

the need for labor to raise crops and extract precious metals from mines.

Europeans desired many products from Asia. Which of the following does NOT identify one of these products?

tobacco

Christian missionaries to Mexico

were aided by the claim of Juan Diego that he had seen the Virgin of Guadalupe.

European exploration led to the import of many new agricultural products into Europe. Which of the following was NOT one of those products?

wheat