AP Euro Chapter 14 Answers (correct)

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What group of people benefited the most from large price increases in the sixteenth century?

The middle class

How did English colonies differ from other major European colonies in their treatment of African women?

English masters rarely freed the children that they fathered with female slaves.

How did Europeans initially justify the enslavement of Africans?

Enslavement benefited Africans by bringing Christianity to them.

Which of the following characterizes the role of Europe in the system of world trade prior to the voyage of Columbus?

Europe was a minor trading power that produced few products desired by other civilizations.

According to his agreement with the Spanish crown, what rewards would Columbus receive if he found a water route to Asia?

He would be named viceroy over any territories he discovered and receive one-tenth of the material rewards of the journey.

How did the Turks' expansion of the Ottoman Empire and their conquest of the Byzantine Empire and its capital Constantinople in 1453 influence European exploration?

It forced Europeans to search for alternate trade routes to China, bypassing the overland routes now controlled by the Ottoman Empire

In the fifteenth century, two rival Islamic empires dominated the Middle East: the Turkish Ottomans and the

Persian Safavids.

The Mongol emperors of China

encouraged trade with Europe.

At the time of his death, Columbus believed the islands he found were

off the coast of Asia.

Settlers from the Massachusetts colony dispersed into new communities such as Connecticut and Rhode Island because

there were religious disputes among the colonists.

Bartolomé de Las Casas asserted that the Indians

had human rights.

Spanish settlement in the Americas was centered on

towns and cities.


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