WHAP - Unit 4 - Maritime Empire
Authored by Andrew Merrick
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11th Grade
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This quiz comprehensively covers Unit 4 of World History Advanced Placement (WHAP), focusing on maritime empires during the period 1450-1750. The content examines the Age of Exploration and its global consequences, including European maritime expansion, the establishment of trading post empires, the Atlantic slave trade, and the Columbian Exchange. Students need to understand complex interconnected systems such as mercantilism, the triangular trade networks across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and the social hierarchies that emerged in colonial societies like the Spanish casta system. The questions require analysis of cause-and-effect relationships, comparison of different colonial approaches, and evaluation of cultural syncretism in religion. Students must also demonstrate knowledge of specific explorers, technological innovations like the caravel, and the demographic and economic impacts of disease, labor systems, and global trade networks. This represents 11th-grade level content that demands sophisticated historical thinking skills including synthesis of multiple perspectives and understanding of continuity and change over time. Created by Andrew Merrick, a History teacher in the US who teaches grade 11. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, from formative evaluation of student understanding to summative review of maritime empire concepts. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a unit review before the AP exam, break it into smaller sections for warm-up activities, or assign portions as homework to reinforce specific subtopics like the Columbian Exchange or colonial labor systems. The varied question formats allow for differentiated assessment, while the extensive coverage ensures students engage with all major themes from this crucial AP World History unit. This quiz directly supports AP World History standards, particularly those addressing the development of maritime empires (WOR-2), the expansion of existing religions (SB-1), the Columbian Exchange (ENV-4), and the establishment of new labor systems (SOC-2), while helping students master the comparative analysis and synthesis skills essential for AP success.
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the purpose of mercantilism?
Gain colonies
Gain gold
Gain exports
Gain imports
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What demographic shift occurs from the Atlantic Slave Trade?
More females than males in Africa
More children than elderly in Africa
More males than females in Africa
Songhai Empire loses power to the Asante Kingdom
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did local Rulers in Africa exchanged with Europeans in exchange of gunpowder and cannons?
Gold
Ivory
Slaves
Salt
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is Vasco da Gama best known for?
Being the first to sail from India to Europe using an alternative route
Being the first to sail to India
Discovering Europe
Being the first to sail from Europe to India
5.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following was a cause of increased European travel? (More than 1)
Government sponsorship
Desire to end monarchies in the New World
Spread of maritime technology and ideas from older societies
Interest in spreading trade and religion
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which empire had a trading post empire throughout Asia and Africa?
France
England
Portugal
Spain
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Potatoes were brought to the Europe from the Americas
True
False
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