WHSS2 Pt 1

Africa's southern tip became known as the Cape of

• Magellan.

• Dias

• Fear

• Good Hope.

Who controlled Asian-European trade in the 1400s?

• the Indians and the Portuguese

• the Spanish and the Germans

• the Chinese and the Indians

• the Arabs and the Italians

What leader set out with five ships on an expedition that would be the first to sail around the world?

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco de Gama

• Prince Henry

• Ferdinand Magellan

Prince Henry of Portugal welcomed map-makers, also called

• circumnavigators.

• cartographers.

• geographers.

• navigators.

To sail completely around the world is to __________ it.

• circumnavigate

• surround

• segregate

• repatriate

Pope Alexander VI divided the non-European world into two zones with his

• Line of Demarcation.

• surround

• segregate

• repatriate

What port did Vasco da Gama first reach in India?

• Bombay

• Calicut

• Ceuta

• Cape Town

Dutch immigrants built the first permanent European settlement in Africa, which was

• Mombasa

• Malindi

• Cape Town

• Port-Novo

What African kingdom defeated their rivals, the Denkyira, in the late 1600s?

• the Ethiopian kingdom

• the kingdom of Kongo

• the kingdom of Benin

• the Asante kingdom

How did the Asante protect themselves from being taken advantage of by European traders?

• They built an efficient bureaucracy.

• They developed a huge army.

• They built a fleet of warships.

• They played the Europeans against one another.