AP Chapter 14 Test_Creation of a World Market

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____	1.	Prince Henry
a.	was the first European to get to the source of the Zambezi.	
b.	established a school for naval gunners in Portsmouth, England in 1438.	
c.	was depicted as the "epitome" of greed by Bartolomeu Dias.	
d.	established a school for navigators in 1419.	
e.	became king of England in 1628.	

____	2.	The most influential cargo brought back to Portugal from the West African coastal voyages in 1441 was
a.	silver.	
b.	gold.	
c.	slaves.	
d.	spices.	
e.	ivory.	

____	3.	The Cape of Good Hope was rounded in 1487 by
a.	Abram Voorhies.	
b.	Vasco da Gama.	
c.	Ferdinand Magellan.	
d.	Bartolomeo Dias.	
e.	Henry the Navigator.	

____	4.	The Portuguese leaders who first landed at Calcut and seized the port of Malacca were, respectively,
a.	Jaime Cardose and Pedro Martinez Munoa.	
b.	Ferdinando Colan and Alhambra da Fonseca.	
c.	Vasco da Gama and Afonso da Albuquerque.	
d.	Henry da Bruscia and Eduardo da Estabano.	
e.	Juan Montillo and Jorge Sikada Maio.	

____	5.	All of the following were true of the Portuguese foray into overseas trade except that they
a.	were unable to maintain their position in the Spice Islands.	
b.	employed the standard methods of peaceful competition that existed before they ventured into these new foreign regions.	
c.	were able to gain complete control of the spice trade between the East and Europe for a brief time.	
d.	defeated their competition in the spice trade through the use of overwhelming force until they, in turn, were similarly overwhelmed.	
e.	none of the above	

____	6.	Christopher Columbus
a.	was an escaped criminal from Munich when he sailed to the Americas.	
b.	was of Genoese origin, although he gained fame while in the service of the Portuguese king.	
c.	was the brother of Hessin Cortes.	
d.	converted to Islam on his forty-third birthday.	
e.	believed that Asia was larger, and closer to Europe by water, than people then thought.	

____	7.	Which of the following is not true concerning European forays into the New World?
a.	Christopher Columbus never sailed into Chesapeake Bay.	
b.	John Cabot explored the coast of New England on a voyage sponsored by Henry VII.	
c.	Christopher Columbus explored along the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.	
d.	Pedro Cabral discovered South America by accident.	
e.	Vespucci's many published letters describing the geography of the New World caused people to call the area America.	

____	8.	The Treaty of Tordesillas
a.	divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between the English and the French.	
b.	divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between the Spanish and the Portuguese.	
c.	gave the English the eastern route around the Cape of Good Hope.	
d.	gave the French the eastern route around the Cape of Good Hope.	
e.	none of the above	

____	9.	Which of the following accurately pairs Spanish conquistadors with the New World empires they destroyed?
a.	Pizarro and the Aztecs; de Soto and the Incas.	
b.	Magellan and the Incas; Albuquerque and the Iroquois.	
c.	Cortés and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Incas.	
d.	de Soto and the Aztecs; Cortés and the Incas.	
e.	de Soto and the Incas; Cortés and the Aztecs.	

____	10.	Brazil was taken over by the
a.	French.	
b.	Spanish.	
c.	English.	
d.	Portuguese.	
e.	Dutch.	

____	11.	European links to the rest of the world included
a.	the establishment of Viking settlements in the Caribbean during the ninth and tenth centuries.	
b.	the trip of the Polo family to East Asia in the late thirteenth century.	
c.	the mass immigration of North African Muslims to southern France and Italy during the fourteenth century.	
d.	both a and b	
e.	both b and c	

____	12.	As part of the formal administration system for their new empire, the Spanish created a board of trade to supervise all economic matters related to the New World. This board was known as the
a.	New Spain Board of Trade.	
b.	Casa de Contratactión.	
c.	Council of the Indies.	
d.	Casa de Los Indies.	
e.	Chamber of Commerce.	

____	13.	All of the following were true of Spanish rule in the New World except
a.	the region was divided into two major areas at first.	
b.	audiencias served as the main civil and military officers of the king.	
c.	the viceroys were helped by advisory groups that also served in a judicial capacity.	
d.	Spanish Catholicism became duplicated in the new empire.	
e.	papal policy strengthened royal authority over the church in the Americas.	

____	14.	As a result of their empires in the New World and Asia, the
a.	Dutch became a major trading power, especially in Asia.	
b.	Spanish imported riches in gold, silver, hides, and agricultural products.	
c.	Portuguese imported Asian spices, jewels, silk, carpets, and perfumes.	
d.	development of the modern world economy began.	
e.	all of the above	

____	15.	Which of the following is an accurate depiction of European colonial development in the New World?
a.	The Dutch took New York from the English and changed its name to New Netherlands, and later the English lost some of their Canadian holdings to the French.	
b.	The English took New Netherlands from the French and changed its name to New York, and later the Dutch lost some of their Canadian holdings to the French.	
c.	The English took New Netherlands from the Dutch and changed its name to New York, and later the French lost most of their Canadian holdings to the English.	
d.	The French took New York from the Dutch and changed its name to New France, and later the Dutch lost some of their Canadian holdings to the English.	
e.	none of the above	

____	16.	Which of the following was an example of successful English colonization produced by a combination of religious and economic motives?
a.	Massachusetts Bay.	
b.	New York.	
c.	Virginia.	
d.	Chesapeake Bay Colony.	
e.	Cuyahoga.	

____	17.	All of the following are true about European contacts with Africa except that
a.	most peoples in the African interior were little influenced in the 1500s.	
b.	the Portuguese defeated the Mwene Metapa and took control of the East African gold trade for a time.	
c.	the Dutch established a colony at Capetown to supply its ships headed for the Spice Islands.	
d.	the Boers and San were responsible for keeping Europeans away from the Cape of Good Hope.	
e.	none of the above	

____	18.	Which of the following was the most important reason for the massive growth of the African slave trade in the sixteenth century?
a.	the need to supply the mines of Peru with an abundant labor force	
b.	the desire to develop the tobacco plantations of the New World	
c.	the intense labor needs created by the rapid development of sugar growing in the New World	
d.	the enormous growth in the African birth rate	
e.	the European ability to obtain slaves in many West African areas	

____	19.	Which of the following statements most accurately depicts life expectancy in the sixteenth century?
a.	Europeans' chances of living longer improved if they did not go to Africa or the West Indies.	
b.	A European stood a better chance of living much longer in Africa than in the West Indies.	
c.	Africans who survived the voyage from their homeland had a shorter life expectancy in the West Indies than Europeans who went there.	
d.	The slave's voyage from Africa to the New World was unrelated to his or her mortality.	
e.	Africans rarely survived for one year if exposed to the dampness and cold of Europe.	

____	20.	By 1700
a.	European adventurers had mapped the interior of Africa more fully than they had charted the waters off its coast.	
b.	the African slave trade had ended.	
c.	the demand for African slaves in Southeast Asia had greatly increased European, especially French, control of Java and the Malay Peninsula.	
d.	Spain was in decline, as gold and silver production in its American colonies diminished.	
e.	England seized the Philippine Islands in the 1580s and held them for over a century.	

____	21.	Dutch colonial efforts
a.	were incredibly unsuccessful, as their huge expenditures did not produce even a single profitable colony anywhere.	
b.	were ended by superior Portuguese power in North America before 1700.	
c.	were weakened by their principled refusal to take part in the slave trade.	
d.	were highly successful in Southeast Asia, and particularly on the island of Java.	
e.	both a and c	

____	22.	It has been speculated that in an effort to respond to the development of European influence in Africa,
a.	a general militancy overtook the native populations.	
b.	political centralization combining several local kingdoms developed.	
c.	the concept of kingship disappeared from the local cultures.	
d.	the need to overwhelm the outsiders became a prime motivator of native behavior.	
e.	Christianity was quickly adopted in northern and western Africa.	

____	23.	The Spanish base of operations in Southeast Asia was established in
a.	Malacca.	
b.	Vietnam.	
c.	the Philippines.	
d.	Java.	
e.	Burman lands.	

____	24.	The European power that emerged triumphant in the Indonesian archipelago, and took over virtually the entire region by the end of the eighteenth century, was
a.	Spain.	
b.	France.	
c.	the Netherlands.	
d.	Britain.	
e.	Portugal.	

____	25.	Southeast Asia, by the 1700s,
a.	was rigidly controlled by Europeans, with the French in control of Vietnam and the Portuguese elsewhere.	
b.	had seen Islamic influence driven from the region by the joint French-Dutch "light" campaign.	
c.	was witnessing a significant religious change, as Islamic influence spread from the Malay Peninsula to the northern coasts of Sumatra and Java.	
d.	both a and b	
e.	both a and c	

____	26.	Which of the following statements accurately describes the reaction of the states of Southeast Asia to the pressures created by the Europeans in the seventeenth century?
a.	The states on the mainland were more successful in maintaining their independence than the island states were.	
b.	The island states were more successful in maintaining their independence than the mainland states were.	
c.	Both the mainland states and the Malay states became totally dominated by the European nations.	
d.	The Europeans were unable to effectively alter the course of events in either the mainland states or the island states.	
e.	both b and d	

____	27.	Which of the following products attracted the greatest European interest in Southeast Asia in the period between 1500 and 1800?
a.	opium	
b.	slaves	
c.	cloves	
d.	rayon	
e.	ayuthaya	

____	28.	New religions coming into Southeast Asia
a.	included Islam, Shinto and Zoroastrianism.	
b.	often were somewhat altered by new converts, who blended their traditional beliefs with the new doctrines.	
c.	were only temporarily considered, and then rejected, by the region's peoples.	
d.	both a and c	
e.	none of the above	

____	29.	Southeast Asia produced which of the following in the 1700s?
a.	ceramics	
b.	tin	
c.	copper	
d.	gold	
e.	all of the above	

____	30.	The Javanese kingship model
a.	was an adaptation of that developed in China during the Ming Dynasty.	
b.	was exactly like the Buddhist model.	
c.	included a semidivine monarch until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when Islamic influence weakened the semi-divine perception.	
d.	developed first in Burma.	
e.	reached its most sophisticated form under joint Dutch and Ottoman sponsorship.	

____	31.	It seems that people began to decorate textiles as a substitute for
a.	creating water colors.	
b.	the traditional tattooing that Muslims opposed.	
c.	creative forms of dance.	
d.	musical endeavors.	
e.	ritual warfare.