10th grade chapter 14

the southern tip of africa became known as the Cape of Good Hope because

• its calm seas provided shelter from the stormy atlantic

• it was the sailors first sight of land since they left home

• rounding it gave sailors a direct sea route to Asia

what two European powers agreed to the line of Demarcation

• Portuguese and dutch

• Spanish and Portuguese

• Spanish and Dutch

when the Europeans expanded the slave trade, new african states responded by

• competing for control of the slave trade

• beginning to trade in European slaves

• uniting to oppose the slave trade

• all of the above

who were the Boers

• Africans who followed traditional beliefs rather than christianity

• indian soldiers who served the british east india company

• dutch farmers who settled around cape town

large amounts of american silver flowed into east asia through what important spanish trading center

• Malacca

• Philippines

• Macao

after mughal power declined what group took control over most of india

• dutch east india company

• french east india company

• british east india company

after the Japanese and the Manchus invaded Korea, the Koreans responded by

• greatly expanding their military

• excluding foreigners from their nation

• building a great wall around Korea

the first Europeans to challenge the Portuguese control of Asia trade were the

• French

• Spanish

• Dutch

where did Portugal's Indian trading empire began

• West Indies

• Magellan

• Calicut

where did Christopher Columbus land

• America

• West Indies

• Moluccas