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The European voyages of the fifteenth century derived from a desire to share in the wealth of the? |
The Indian Ocean trade. |
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Who was Prester John? |
A mythical Christian king in Africa believed to be a descendant of one of the three kings who visited Jesus after his birth. |
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Characterize the role of Europe in the world trading system prior to the voyage of Columbus |
Europe was a minor outpost that produced few products desired by other civilizations |
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What did the Dutch East India Company do in the seventeenth century? |
It took over most of the East Indies from Portugal. |
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The motivations for European explorers did not include what? |
Population pressures |
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Who were the group of people that benefitted most from large price increases in the sixteenth century? |
The middle class |
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After losing access to slave trading through the Black Sea, the Genoese obtained many slaves except? |
Portuguese peasants |
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The introduction of Ptolemys geography misled European cartographers |
It asserted that the world is much smaller than it actually is |
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Who resisted the efforts of the Portuguese to establish themselves in the Indian Ocean trade? |
Muslim-controlled port cities |
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When Vasco da Gama arrived in the Indian Ocean? |
He hired an Indian pilot as his guide |
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Columbus believed he had found what when he arrived in the Caribbean? |
Islands off the coast of Japan |
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What rewards would Columbus receive if he found a sea route to Asia? |
One-tenth of the material rewards of the journey. |
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The Treaty of Tordesillas |
Divided the Atlantic Ocean with an imaginary line, giving Spain everything west and Portugal everything east. |
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Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe |
Convinced the Spanish to abandon trade efforts in Asia and develop their American colonies instead. |
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How did the French and the English seek a trade route to Asia? |
They sought a northwest passage across North America |
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In the fifteenth centric, two Islamic rival empires dominates the Middle East were |
The Turkish ottomans and the Persian safavids |
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Cortés crucial advantage in his conquest |
Exploit internal dissension within the Mexica empire |
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Portugal's participation in the European expansion was supported by |
Prince Henry |
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The Spanish respond to the inca trap by |
Ambushing and capturing Atahualpa, holding him for random, and then executing him. |
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Settlers from the Massachusetts colony dispersed into new communities |
Over religious disputes into Providence, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Haven |
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How did the Spanish monarchy seek to maintain control over its colonies? |
They established intendants with broad financial and administrative authority who reported directly back to the monarchy. |
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Columbus believed the islands he found were |
Off the coast of Asia |
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The encomienda system function |
Granted conquerors to employ or demand tribute from Native Americans in return for food and shelter. |
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Bartolomé de Las Casas asserted |
That the Indians had human rights |
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French colonies respond to low immigration levels |
To encourage French traders to form ties with and marry Native women |
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English colonies differ from other colonies in their treatment of African women |
Masters were less likely to free the children they fathered with female slaves |
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Portuguese merchants obtain most of their slaves |
From local African leaders |
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Immigration patterns of Europeans and Africans to the Americas between 1500 and 1800 |
About 4 times as many Africans migrated as Europeans did |
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Cause of the inflation in Spain? |
The inability of Spanish agriculture and manufacturing to meet the demand for goods. |
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Chronological order, what were the three successive commercial empires? |
Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch |
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Europeans initially justify enslavement |
Enslavement benefitted Africans by bringing Christianity to them |
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Shakespeare's history plays |
Express English national consciousness. |
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Justifications for slavery change between 1500 and 1800 |
Arguments supporting slavery began to focus more on science and nature and less on religion |
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Michel de Montaigne offer a counterpoint to Europe's growing imperial activities |
Montaigne rejected that one culture was superior to another |
