Exam 14: Empires and Encounters, 1450-1750

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

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -They were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples.

Source 14.2 illustrates the European consumption of chocolate, which originated in the Americas. What other ingredients from the Americas and Asia did Europeans add to chocolate?

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Term often used to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East, a process exacerbated by the fact that Europe had few trade goods that were desirable in Eastern markets.

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -City that developed high in the Andes (in present-day Bolivia) at the site of the world's largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570s.

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

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

Historical Analysis: Which societies benefited the most from the emergence of European trading networks, and in what ways did they benefit? Which regions suffered the most, and in what ways?

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

How did the Atlantic slave trade affect African states and society?

Which of the following describes a difference between how the British East India Company operated in Mughal India and how the Dutch East India Company operated in Indonesia in the seventeenth century?

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

In what ways did Asian countries and merchants have the upper hand in Asian commerce during the period from 1450 to 1750?

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

Which of the following status symbols depicted in the sources was associated with the destruction of the culture of its origin?

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

What factors drove the European demand for furs from North America and Siberia during the early modern era?

What role did women play in the global commerce of the early modern era?

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a closed-door policy toward European encroachments.

Some people within the Ottoman Empire regarded the coffeehouse as a "refuge of Satan." What activities depicted in Source 14.3 strengthen this view of coffeehouses as disreputable places?