WH Chapter 14

Which of the following distinguished the Atlantic slave trade in the Americas from past instances of slavery in world history?

Slave status was associated with race.

Which of the following was a feature of commerce in the Indian Ocean basin when Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498?

Small-scale merchants traded openly.

How did the slave trade affect African states?

Some African states depended on revenues from the slave trade.

Which of the following is true of slavery in the premodern Islamic world?

Some slaves acquired prominent military or political status.

Which of the following was a consequence of the Atlantic slave trade?

The African diaspora

What was one main difference between the Spanish colonization of the Philippines and the Portuguese strongholds in the Indian Ocean basin?

The Spanish converted Filipinos to Christianity while the Portuguese often blended into the local populations.

The origins of the Atlantic slave trade were associated with the

production of sugar.

Which of the following was a feature unique to the North American fur trade in the early modern period?

Competition between European traders meant that furs were obtained largely through commercial negotiations with the local population.

Which of the following statements is true of the West African slave trade?

European merchants waited on board their ships or in fortified port cities to purchase slaves from African merchants and elites.

Which of the following describes an effect of the European presence in the Indian Ocean on existing Asian commercial networks?

Europeans created a network that became just one among a number of thriving Asian commercial networks.

What commodity was considered "soft gold" in early modern commerce?

Furs

Which of the following describes an effect of the silver trade on Spain?

It enabled Spanish rulers to pursue military and political ambitions in Europe and the Americas.

Which of the following describes how the fur trade affected indigenous peoples in North America?

It generated warfare among different groups of Native Americans.

Which of the following is an example of the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on African societies?

Judicial proceedings were manipulated to generate victims for the slave trade.

What was one main difference between how the British East India Company operated in Mughal India and how the Dutch East India Company operated in what is now Indonesia?

The British negotiated treaties with local Indian rulers while the Dutch established control through conquest and colonization.

Which of the following developments in the early modern period provided incentives for Europeans to go into the fur trade?

The Little Ice Age

Which of the following was established as a Spanish colony in the sixteenth century?

The Philippine Islands

Which of the following was a result of the fur trade in North America in the early modern period?

The dependence of Native Americans on European trade goods

How did the decision by the Chinese state to require payment of taxes in silver in the 1570s affect the global economy?

The value of silver around the world skyrocketed.

What did the Portuguese do after they established sea routes to the Indian Ocean?

They conquered several strategic port cities.

How did the Tokugawa shoguns treat Europeans in Japan in the early seventeenth century?

They expelled all Europeans except the Dutch.

Which describes the role Europeans played in the economy of the early modern era?

They were essentially middlemen funneling American silver to Asia.

Which of the following was an incentive for the Portuguese to find a direct sea route to Asia?

To circumvent the Muslim and Venetian monopolies on Indian Ocean trade

The number of slaves shipped from Africa to the Americas peaked

in the 1700s.

The first direct and sustained link between the Americas and Asia was the trade in

silver.

The emergence of Japan as a major source of silver production in the sixteenth century contributed to

the end of civil war and the unification of Japan.

Which of the following describes the experiences of some women in Africa in the early modern era?

A few women had access to political power.

Which of the following characterizes how European countries sought to control trade in Asia from 1450 to 1750?

By force of arms