Unit 4 Review

Which of following helped lead to the other three?

• increased exploration and expansion
• China demanded silver in exchange for its goods
• increased power of the Spanish crown
• exploitation of native labor in the Americas

Caravel, compass, and astrolabe by Europeans in the late 1400s helped lead to expansion of....

• Exploration of the Americas
• Migration of Bantu people in Africa
• Introduction of Buddhism to Africa
• Voyages of Zheng He for the Emperor

The Ottomans control over overland routes forced what to happen?

• Islam to spread to Africa
• The Silk Road to close down 
• New innovations such as the motorized car 
• Portugal and Spain established water routes to Asia’s spice markets

Zheng He was an explorer whose main job was to promote trade and collect tribute for China

• True
• False

In the 1500s, Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, Henry VIII’s “Act of Supremacy,” and John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion contributed to

• greater sense of nationalism
• a decline in the power of the Catholic Church
• growing power of feudalism
• Growing conflict with Eastern Orthodox Christians

Johann Gutenberg's printing press has the greatest impact on this Protestant Reformation Activist

• Pope Leo X
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Zheng He
• Martin Luther

A major reason that the Renaissance began in Italy was that

• Italian city-states had grown wealthy from trade between Europe and Asia.
• few European scholars had migrated to this area
• Italian merchants benefited from trade with the Americas.
• Italian farmers produced great agricultural surpluses on vast plains

What was one reason the Spanish conquistadors were able to conquer the Aztec Empire?

• Aztec religious beliefs promoted non-violence.
• Spain joined the Incas in their fight against the Aztecs.
• The Spanish soldiers made effective use of their military technology against the Aztecs.
• The Spanish cavalry outnumbered the Aztec warriors.

How did King Henry VIII react when the pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon?

• He started a war with the pope
• He took over the English Church
• He started the Reformation
• He imposed the Catholic Church

In 1555, by the Peace of Augsburg, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V allowed the German princes to choose

• Calvinism or Lutheranism
• Catholicism or Calvinism
• Catholicism or Lutheranism