Chapter 15 AP Euro
He would be named viceroy over any territories he discovered and receive one-tenth of material rewards of the journey.
According to his agreement with Spanish crown, what rewards would Columbus receive if he found a water route to Asia?
Indians had human rights
Bartolome de Las Cases asserted that the
They sought Northwest Passage across North America
How did English and French seek route to East Asia?
English masters rarely freed the children that they fathered with female slaves
How did English colonies differ from other major European colonies in their treatment of African women
Enslavement benefited the Africans by bringing Christianity to them
How did Europeans initially justify the enslavement of Africans?
colonial effects encouraged French traders to form ties with and marry native women
How did French colonies respond to the problem of low migration levels from France?
Traded for slaves with local leaders
How did Portuguese merchants obtain most of their slaves in Africa?
Divided Atlantic Ocean with imaginary line, giving Spain control of everything west of line and Portugal everything east of the line
The Treaty of Tordesillas?
middle class
The group of people who benefited the most from large price increases in the sixteenth century was the...
fear of the Black Death
The motivations for European explorers included all of the following except
Europe was a minor outpost that produced few products desired by other civilizations.
Which of the following best characterizes the role of Europe in the world trade system prior to voyage of Columbus?
Muslim-controlled port cities
Who resisted efforts of the Portuguese to establish themselves in the Indian Ocean trade?
A mythical Christian king in Africa believed to be a descendant of one of the three kings who visited Jesus after his birth.
Who was Prestor John?
Portuguese peasants
After losing access to slave trading from the Black Sea, the Genoese obtained all of the folowing as slaves except
off the coast of Asia
At the time of his death, Columbus believed the islands he found were
The great distance of the Pacific convinced the Spanish to abandon efforts to trade in Asia and develop American colonies instead
How did Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe affect Spanish colonization?
Arguments supporting slavery began to focus more on science and nature and less on religion
How did justifications for slavery change from the 15th to 18th century?
Monarchy established intendents with broad administrative and financial authority who were responsible directly to the monarchy
How did the Spanish monarchy seek to maintain control over its colonies?
Spanish ambushed and captured Atahualpa, holding him for ransom and then executing him
How did the Spanish respond to the trap set by the Inca King Atahualpa?
Spanish crown granted conquerors the right to employ or demand tribute from groups of Native American in exchange for providing food and shelter
How did the encomienda system function?
Ptolemy asserted that the world was much smaller than it actually is, indicating that Asia was not far removed from Europe
How did the intro of Ptolemy's "Geography" mislead European cartographers?
Portuguese, Spanish, and the Dutch
In chronological order, what were three successive commercial empires established by Europeans in 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries?
Persian Safavids
In fifteenth century, two rival Islamic empires dominated the Middle East, the Turkish Ottomans and the...
took over much of the East Indies from Portugal
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company...
Prince Henry
Portugal's participation in European expansion was given critical support by..
of religious disputes among the colonists
Settlers from Massachusetts colony dispersed into new communities such as Connecticut and Rhode Island because
expressed an English national consciousness
Shakespeare's history plays, such as Richard II,
Indian Ocean Trade
The European voyages of fifteenth century derived from a desire to share in the wealth of...
Cortes was able to exploit internal dissention with in the Mexica empire
What became Cortes's crucial advantage in conquest of Mexican Empire?
Islands off coast of Japan
What did Columbus believe he had found when he arrived in the Caribbeans?
inability of Spanish agriculture and manufacturing to meet growing demands for goods
What was the primary cause of the emergence of inflation in Spain in the sixteenth century?
He hired an Indian Ocean pilot as his guide
When Vasco da Gama arrived in the Indian Ocean, how did he navigate these unknown waters?
About four times as many Africans migrated to America as did Europeans
Which of the following best characterizes immigration patterns (forced and unforced) of Europeans and Africans to the Americas between 1500 and 1800?
