History 122 Quiz 1

The first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope was:

Bartolomeu Dias

Which of the following cities was NOT a Portuguese trading post? ; Melaka / Bombay / Sao Jorge da Mina / Hormuz / Goa

Bombay

When he reached ______, Columbus sent delegates to seek the court of the emperor of China.

Cuba

The first circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1522 by:

Ferdinand Magellan's crew

Russian merchants and explorers began the expansion into Siberia in the quest for:

Furs

The explorer who led three expeditions into the Pacific in the eighteenth century was:

James Cook

The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was:

Manila

The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was:

Portugal

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

Sugarcane

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

The Desire to conquer China and India

Ferdinand Magellan established a trade route between Mexico and:

The Philippines

Which of the following was NOT an advantage the English and Dutch had over the Portuguese?

They had much better captains

The VOC was the:

United East India Company.

The Portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was:

Vasco Da Gama

The Dutch policy in Indonesia was to:

control the production of spices.

The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to:

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

Christopher Columbus's decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on:

his miscalculation of the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan.

In the long term, the Columbian exchange:

increased world population because of the spread of new food crops.

The reconquista came to an end in 1492 when:

the Muslim kingdom of Granada fell to Spanish Catholic forces.

Under Spanish rule of the Philippines, the native population:

was pressured to convert to Roman Catholicism.