HISTORY CHAPTER 1 quiz 1

How did the Kongo use the slave trade?

To expand their regional power

This was the most powerful kingdom on the African coast.

What is Kongo

Who founded Puerto Rico?

Juan Ponce de León

What did all of the adult males who settled the Plymouth colony have to sign?

Mayflower Compact

What country was the first to capitalize on advances in maritime technology to expand exploration efforts?

Portugal

Which of the following was a derisive term for militant Calvinists?

Puritans

For whom was the colony of Virginia named?

Queen Elizabeth I of England

What was the era after the Middle Ages in Europe called?

Renaissance

Which countries signed the Treaty of Tordesillas?

Spain and Portugal

Many West African societies were arranged in this way, with women engaging in trade.

What is matrilineal West African art forms were often blended together and were tied into religious belief and ancestor worship. African folktales were performed publicly and dramatized with music, dance, and masks. Musical forms in particular consisted of complex rhythmic forms that would eventually influence the development of jazz in the United States.

This West African social structure eventually allowed slaves to endure the breakup of nuclear families.

What is the extended family Kinship groups organized by clan ties formed the basis of West African societies. These networks of mutual obligation would later help those whose close families were devastated by the slave trade maintain ties to strong extended families.

Elmina was a major trading outpost for this European country.

What is: Portugal Portugal was the first European nation to make significant inroads into the West African slave trade. In the late fifteenth century, Portugal built a major outpost called Elmina on the African Gold Coast, though most of Portugal's trade went through African-controlled commercial networks.

This African queen was the daughter of a former slave.

Who is: Queen Nzinga Slave status was somewhat flexible in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century West Africa. Slaves were taken on as a result of war or indebtedness, but could work their way out of debt or be absorbed into a family. Queen Nzinga, who came to power in 1623, was the daughter of a former slave, demonstrating the flexibility of slavery and slave status in this time and place.

What kind of business organization emerged in the sixteenth century, leading to a growing demand for investment?

joint-stock company