Chapter 2 Beginnings of Our Global Age:

What European first rounded the southern tip of Africa?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

What disease was the scourge of the early voyages of exploration?

• scurvy

• malaria

• smallpox

• the Plague

Great power was given to the Dutch when they captured Portugal's Malaysian port of

• Manila

• Malacca

• Macao

• Calcutta

The Boers treated Africans as

• equals

• superiors

• inferiors

• slaves

What were the most valued items to Europeans in their early trade with Asia?

• spices

• silk

• porcelain

• gold and silver

Who sponsored Portugal's early sea explorations?

• King Ferdinand

• King Philip II

• Prince Henry

• Prince Charles

The Dutch people who built a great trading empire were from

• Sweden

• Germany

• the Netherlands

• the Holy Roman Empire

Afonso de Albuquerque won trading posts through

• force

• diplomacy

• missionary efforts

• generosity

nicknamed "The Spice Islands", a group of islands in eastern Indonesia; was the center of the spice trade in the 1500 and 1600s

• Moluccas
• Line of Demarcation
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Dutch East India Company

a trading company established by the Netherlands in 1602 to protect and expand its trade in Asia

• Moluccas
• Line of Demarcation
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Dutch East India Company