AP World History - Chapter 15 Flashcard

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This was thought to be an advanced technology used by Europeans to determine latitude using the position of stars, it was called a....

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astrolabe

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What is the name of the Treaty that Pope Alexander VI awarded to Portugal allowing them to claim Brazil in the New World?

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Who dedicated his life to ending the Encomienda system and helping the indigenous people of the New World?

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Bartolome da Las Casas

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Which of these events happened first? Europeans arrive and enslave Native Americans to extract the wealth of the New World, but many die from Old World diseases, Europeans traded manufactured goods with African rulers who captured slaves and sold them to Europeans who transported them to the Americas, Slaves were transported to the New World to work on plantations (huge farms), Bartholomew de las Casas writes to the king of Spain exposing the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and calls for the abolition of slavery, None of the choices are correct

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Europeans arrive and enslave Native Americans to extract the wealth of the New World, but many die from Old World diseases

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A caravel, junk and dhow are all

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maritime vessels

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Which states dominated the Mediterranean trade during the sixteenth century? Options: Italian city-states and the Ottoman Empire, The Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire, Spain and Portugal, The Hapsburg Empire and France

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Italian city-states and the Ottoman Empire

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Wrote, "The Prince," a political guidebook

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Nicolo Machiavelli

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What could most reasonably be concluded from the sermon: “It is most evident that kings, queens, and other princes . . . are ordained of God, are to be obeyed and honored by their subjects; that such subjects as are disobedient or rebellious against their princes, disobey God.”?

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Rulers often used religious ideas and institutions to justify their rule.

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Which of the following best explains a similarity between the earliest English and French voyages across the North Atlantic in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
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They succeeded despite receiving little support from their respective state governments.
They were often launched in the hopes of finding alternative sailing routes to Asia.
They helped convince western European monarchies to abandon mercantilist policies in favor of free-trade policies.
They were ended after encountering violent resistance from Portuguese and Spanish naval forces.

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They were often launched in the hopes of finding alternative sailing routes to Asia.

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In the fourteenth century, merchants from China, Arabia, Persia, and Egypt were drawn to Calicut, India, primarily to purchase

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Pepper