Deck 14: New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Question 1

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Paramesvara

Answer 1

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Question 2

How, and to what extent, did the arrival of Europeans influence the scope and conduct of the spice trade?

Answer 2

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Question 3

Discuss the European impact, positive and negative, on the native populations of Southeast Asia.

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Question 4

Discuss the consequences of the voyages of Columbus. Cite the positive and negative results of his exploration of the Americas.

Question 5

Compare and contrast the impact of the European colonial nations in the Americas with the impact of the West in Southeast Asia. What are the similarities and what are the differences?

Question 6

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Malacca

Question 7

Describe the most important voyages of exploration undertaken by Europeans during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What made them important?

Question 8

Why was it Western Europe rather than China, the Muslim world, or some other non-Western society who effected the globalization era of the sixteenth century?

Question 9

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Vasco da Gama

Question 10

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Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 11

What were the possible factors that allowed some non-western societies to resist or cope with the arrival of Westerners better than others? Give examples.

Question 12

How did traditional African practices of slavery change after the arrival of Europeans and their entry into the slave trade? Give specific examples.

Question 13

How did Spanish methods of dealing with their new territories in America affect the native populations there?

Question 14

What are the pros and cons of European discoveries and conquests of the Americas? How do historians view this process in a wider context?

Question 15

Compare and contrast Portuguese and Spanish conquests of the Americas. Include a discussion of their different ways of governing their empires.

Question 16

Did "globalization" really begin in the sixteenth century? Why and/or why not? Give specific examples.

Question 17

Discuss the protagonists of the Portuguese explorations, including the factors that led them to undertake their journeys and to ultimately take over the spice trade.

Question 18

How did the arrival of Islam change the previously Buddhist and Hindu societies of Southeast Asia?

Question 19

Describe the role Muslim merchants played in the expansion of the world trade network at the end of the fifteenth century.

Question 20

Discuss the impact of Islam on the native populations of Southeast Asia.

Question 21

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conquistadors

Question 22

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Sonni Ali

Question 23

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compass

Question 24

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sternpost rudder

Question 25

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New Spain

Question 26

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Askia Mohammed

Question 27

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Dom Joao III

Question 28

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Afonso da Albuquerque

Question 29

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The Tears of the Indians

Question 30

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portolani

Question 31

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manioc

Question 32

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Columbian Exchange

Question 33

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encomienda

Question 34

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viceroy

Question 35

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Question 36

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Songhai

Question 37

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caravels

Question 38

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creoles

Question 39

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astrolabe

Question 40

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Christopher Columbus

Question 41

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Batavia

Question 42

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Amerigo Vespucci

Question 43

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Moctezuma

Question 44

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Mwene Mutapa

Question 45

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Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 46

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Goa

Question 47

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Triangular Trade

Question 48

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Spice Islands

Question 49

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Kilwa, Sofala, and Mombasa

Question 50

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Ferdinand Magellan

Question 51

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the VOC

Question 52

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Boers

Question 53

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encomienda system

Question 54

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Cape of Good Hope

Question 55

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Francisco Pizarro

Question 56

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Pedro Cabral

Question 57

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Bartolome de Las Casas

Question 58

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Hernan Cortes

Question 59

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Dutch East India Company

Question 60

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Hispaniola

Question 61

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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Question 62

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roaring forties

Question 63

Who allegedly contended that "Christians and spices" were the primary motives of the explorations of the fifteenth century?

A) Christopher Columbus
B) Vasco da Gama
C) Leo Africanus
D) Sonni Ali
E) Marco Polo

Question 64

What was one of the earliest West African states to become Muslim?

A) The Zanj
B) Zimbabwe
C) Axum
D) Mali
E) Kush

Question 65

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Slave Coast

Question 66

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Gonzalo Fernandez de Ovieda

Question 67

In 1441, Portuguese ships back from the West African coastal voyages brought _____ to Portugal.

A) silver
B) gold
C) slaves
D) spices
E) ivory

Question 68

Prince Henry established a _____ in Portugal in 1419.

A) hospital for sailors
B) school for naval gunners
C) kindergarten
D) school for navigators
E) royal library

Question 69

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Buddhist style of kingship

Question 70

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Tlaxcallan

Question 71

The Portuguese leaders who first landed at Calicut and seized the port of Malacca were, respectively,

A) Vasco Núòez de Balboa and Pedro Martinez Munoa.
B) Gonzalo Fernández and Bartolomeu Dias.
C) Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque.
D) Henry the Navigator and Henry da Bruscia.
E) Juan Montillo and Jorge Sikada Maio.

Question 72

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Catholic nunneries

Question 73

The charts containing detailed information on coastal contours, distances between ports, and compass readings were called

A) astrolabes.
B) caravels.
C) portolani .
D) horoscopes.
E) sea charts.

Question 74

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Middle Passage

Question 75

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Afrikaans

Question 76

Which city was a major commercial center on the trade route through Sahara in the sixteenth century?

A) Alexandria
B) Kilwa
C) Timbuktu
D) Dakar
E) Niger

Question 77

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
peninsulares

Question 78

Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

A) there was a potential for economic gain through increased world trade.
B) some desired to spread Christianity to other parts of the world.
C) they had developed confidence from improved cartography, navigational methods, and ship designs.
D) fear than Islam would occupy the rest of the world if Christendom did not.
E) knowledge of wind patterns in the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 79

Which sailor was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1487?

A) Abram Voorhies
B) Vasco da Gama
C) Ferdinand Magellan
D) Bartolomeu Dias
E) Henry the Navigator

Question 80

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Javanese model of kingship