Unit 4.1 & 4.2 Quiz AP

Which of the following was NOT a goal for explorers during the Age of Discovery?

• Gold

• salt

• Religion

• New passages

France found its profit in the _________ industry.

• Silver

• Gold

• Sailing

• Fur

The first person to circumnavigate the globe.

• Henry the Navigator

• Christopher Columbus

• Jacques Cartier

• Ferdinand Magellan

___________________ took control of the Philippines and converted many Filipinos to Catholicism.

• Portugal

• Spain

• England

• China

Advanced knowledge and technlogies came to Europe via ____________.

• Silk Roads

• Spain

• Pilgrams

• Indian Ocean Trade

Which of the following best explains a similarity between the earliest English and French voyages across the North Atlantic in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

• They succeeded despite receiving little support from their respective state governments.

• They were often launched in the hopes of finding alternative sailing routes to Asia.

• They were ended after encountering violent resistance from Portuguese and Spanish naval forces.

• They helped convince western European monarchies to abandon mercantilist policies in favor of free-trade policies.

Which of the following was the most immediate effect of the Portuguese establishment of a school for navigation in the 1400s?

• The development of overseas trade between West Africa and Europe

• The establishment of regular trade contacts between Europe and the Americas

• The decline of Venetian control of the trade in Asian luxury goods

• The decline of Venetian control of the trade in Asian luxury goods

“We agreed to leave the coast of Peru and sail for Japan, since we knew that cloth was valuable merchandise there. So we sailed directly for Japan. The shogun, hearing of us, sent five boats to bring me to his court. He demanded to know why we had come so far. I answered: ‘We the English are a people who seek friendship with all nations and trade with all countries, bringing the merchandise that our country produces.’ He demanded also to know about the conflicts between Spain and Portugal and England and the reasons for them.”

William Adams, English navigator and merchant, description of his voyage to Japan, 1611

Question

Which of the following most directly facilitated the voyage mentioned in the passage?

• European access to Arabian and Indian shipping vessels

• European access to Chinese mapmaking knowledge

• European innovations in ship design and navigation

  
  

• European contact with Polynesian mariners

As Europeans began to explore and colonize, the Japanese and Chinese

• Increased their exploration expeditions in order to remain relevant in world wide trade

• Began to resist European involvement in their lands

• Began to revert back to a feudal society

• Began to have religious wars in their homelands with the arrival of Christianity,