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The Portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was |
Vasco da Gama |
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Which of the following was not one of the main inspirations for European exploration? |
The desire to conquer China and India |
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The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was |
Portugal |
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The Portuguese viewed the Atlantic Ocean islands as the perfect location for the cultivation of |
Sugarcane |
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Which of the following was not a reason for the European interest in finding a maritime trade route? |
Mongol domination had caused trade along the silk roads to stop |
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The reconquista came to an end in 1492 when |
The Muslim kingdom of Granada fell to Spanish Catholic forces |
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Lateen sails had the advantage of |
Working better in crosswinds |
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The astrolabe was designed to measure |
Latitude |
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Which of the following were both Chinese inventions? |
Sternpost rudder and magnetic compass |
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Which of the following men conquered the Moroccan port of Ceuta and sponsored a series of voyages down the west African coast? |
Henry of Portugal |
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The first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope was |
Bartolomeu Dias |
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The profitable merchandise that Vasco da Gama purchased in India was made up of |
Pepper and cinnamon |
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Christopher Columbus’s decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on |
His miscalculation of the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan |
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When Columbus reached this area, he sent delegates to seek the court of the emperor of China. |
Cuba |
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On 12 October 1492, Columbus made landfall on an island that the native Taínos called |
Guanahaní |
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The first circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1522 by |
Ferdinand Magellan’s crew |
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Ferdinand Magellan established a trade route between Mexico and |
The Philippines |
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Most of the actual exploration of the Pacific Ocean was carried out by the |
English |
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The explorer who led three expeditions into the Pacific in the eighteenth century was |
James Cook |
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The English explorer James Cook died during a fight in |
Hawai’i |
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In their attempt to control the spice trade in the Indian Ocean, the Europeans during the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries |
Met with limited success because of a lack of personnel |
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The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to |
Force merchant ships to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties |
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Hormuz, Goa, and Melaka were all seized in the early 1500s by |
Afonso d’Alboquerque |
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Which of the following cities was not a Portuguese trading post? |
Bombay |
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In the end, Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because |
It was a small country with a small population |
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Which of the following was not an advantage that the English and Dutch had over the Portuguese? |
They had much better captains |
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The VOC was the |
United East India Company |
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The Philippines fell to |
Miguel López de Legazpi |
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The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was |
Manila |
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Under Spanish rule of the Philippines, the native population |
Was pressured to convert to Roman Catholicism |
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Jan Pieterszoon Coen was responsible for |
Founding the city of Batavia on the island of Java |
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The Dutch policy in Indonesia was |
To control the production of spices |
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The most prosperous country in Europe in the seventeenth century was |
The Netherlands |
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Russian territorial expansion into northern Eurasia began in |
The sixteenth century |
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Russian merchants and explorers began the expansion into Siberia in the quest for |
Furs |
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In the long term, the Columbian exchange |
Increased world population because of the spread of new food crops |
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From 1500 to 1800, the largest contingent of migrants consisted of |
Enslaved Africans |
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By 1750, all parts of the world participated in a global trade network in which Europeans played dominant roles except |
Australia |
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During the early modern era, which of the following non-European peoples explored the Indian Ocean? |
Chinese |
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Wind wheels |
Are circular wind patterns whose discovery aided sailing |
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The volta do mar |
Relied on a thorough knowledge of wind pattern |
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The first European to sight the Pacific ocean was |
Vasco Nunez de Balboa |
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On his circumnavigation of the world, Ferdinand magellan died in |
The Phillippines |
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The Portuguese lost control of the port of Melaka in 1641 when it fell to the |
Dutch |
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The country that finished the Seven Year’s war with global hegemony was |
England |
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