Ch. 15 APW Test

Once they established sea routes to the Indian Ocean, the Portuguese were able to

• trade sought-after European goods at high profits.

• monopolize the spice trade to Europe.

• use their superior naval technology to conquer several strategic port cities.

• convert much of Swahili East Africa to the Christian faith.

What was one main difference between the Spanish colonization of the Philippines and the Portuguese strongholds in the Indian Ocean Basin?

• The Spanish converted Filipinos to Christianity while the Portuguese often blended into the local populations.

• The Spanish only established coastal outposts while the Portuguese conquered inland areas.

• The Portuguese killed large numbers of natives, but the Spanish did not use violence to enforce their rule.

• The Portuguese made little use of their naval superiority in establishing their strongholds, but the Spanish did.

What was one main difference between the establishment of the British East India Company in Mughal India and the establishment of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia?

• The British learned the local languages while the Dutch did not.

• The British used treaties with local Mughal rulers while the Dutch conquered their Indonesian colonies.

• The British had to send 50 percent of their profits back to the government in London, yet the Dutch only had to send a small percentage of money back to their government.

• The British East India Company earned large profits, but the Dutch East India Company never turned a profit.

What was the attitude of Japanese shoguns toward Christian Europeans in Japan in the early seventeenth century?

• They welcomed Europeans for their technological knowledge.

• They welcomed Europeans as teachers of Christianity, and converted.

• They violently expelled all but a few Europeans.

• They were opposed to Europeans, but knew they were powerless to keep Europeans out of Japan.

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship of the new European presence in the Indian Ocean to already existing Asian commercial networks?

• Europeans created a network that became just one among a number of thriving Asian commercial networks.

• Europeans destroyed almost all Asian commercial networks, bringing trade largely to a halt.

• Europeans ended up gaining little for their efforts, eventually leaving Asia empty-handed.

• Europeans succeeded in controlling nearly all Asian trade networks, making them masters of the Asian economy.

The global silver trade

• fundamentally transformed the Spanish economy, making it one of the most productive and commercialized kingdoms in the world.

• was the first direct and sustained link between the Americas and Asia.

• brought the downfall of the Tokugawa shoguns.

• was important in India but had little impact on China.

Which of the following was not a result of the fur trade in North America?

• The early displacement of Native American hunters by large numbers of European trappers and hunters

• The growing dependence of Native Americans on European trade goods

• An end to warfare among Native Americans as they devoted their time and energies to trapping

• The collapse of the cotton market in Europe

An important difference between the Siberian and North American fur trades was that

• only in North America did indigenous peoples suffer from exposure to European epidemic diseases to which they had little immunity.

• only in Siberia did the local population become dependent on European trade goods.

• only in North America did competition between European traders mean that furs were obtained largely through commercial negotiations.

• only in Siberia were some species of animal hunted to near extinction.

In what way did the Chinese response to the global silver economy differ from the Japanese response?

• The Chinese economy became diversified; the Japanese economy did not.

• Chinese merchants began exporting goods to other lands; Japan did not.

• Inflation destroyed the Chinese economy, but aided the Japanese economy.

• Economic changes resulted in ecological devastation in China, but not in Japan.

Within the Islamic world,

• most slaves were male.

• some slaves acquired prominent military or political status.

• slavery was equated strongly with blackness.

• slavery was outlawed by 1600.