World History Topic 2 Test

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The control of most trade between Asia and Europe in the 1400s by Arab and Italian merchants caused:

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Europeans outside Italy to search for direct access to Asia.

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Why did the Portuguese think that they could find an easier way to reach Asia?

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They had expert knowledge and advanced navigational technology.

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Why did Columbus reach the Caribbean islands rather than the East Indies?

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He greatly underestimated the size of Earth and did not realize that North and South America existed.

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Why were the results of Columbus’s first meeting with Native Americans in the West Indies important?

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It had a serious, far-reaching impact on Native Americans.

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How were the Aztec and Inca empires impacted by Spanish conquistadors and European colonization? Options: Conquistadors made peace with the empires, and then Europeans set up colonies., The Aztec and Inca empires shrank and survived only into the 1700s., Conquistadors destroyed the empires, and then Europeans built new settlements., The Aztec and Inca resisted and expelled both conquistadors and European settlers.

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Conquistadors destroyed the empires, and then Europeans built new settlements.

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Which was an effect of Spain’s regulation of trade in its American colonies?

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Colonists could export raw materials only to Spain.

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How did England's political traditions affect the types of government established in England’s American colonies?

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English colonists had some limited representative self-government.

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How did Britain become the dominant power in North America? Options: by paying mercenaries and privateers to fight the Indians, by winning a global war against France, by staying neutral in the French and Indian War, by buying Canada and Florida from Spain

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by winning a global war against France

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What was one main reason why the slave trade greatly expanded beginning around the 1500s? Options: Africans gave up trying to resist capture by European slave traders., Europeans started depending on enslaved people for labor in new colonies., Europeans needed more enslaved people to manage the arrival of new colonial goods., Arab merchants expanded the slave trade into South and East Asia.

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Europeans started depending on enslaved people for labor in new colonies.

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How did the Atlantic slave trade contribute to the rise of some African states? Options: Some African leaders went to Europe to acquire industrial technology., Europeans encouraged African empires to fight against each other., Some African groups moved inland to avoid the slave trade., Some African states participated in slave trading to gain wealth and power.

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Some African states participated in slave trading to gain wealth and power.