Ch. 4 World HIstory

What helped to increase the slave trade in Africa during the seventh century?

• The crusades and holy wars

• The spread of Islam into Africa

• An increase in trade between Europe and Asia

• The establishment of trade networks between Africa and Portugal.

What was one effect in Europe of the financial success of American colonies?

• The prices of good steadily increased

• The prices of goods steadily decreased

• The supply of goods increased to meet demand.

• Both the prices and supply of goods steadily increased.

Which of the following did not aid the Spanish in conquering the Aztecs?

• disease

• larger forces

• native enemies

• superior weapons

How did slavery in African and Muslim societies differ from slavery in the Americas?

• People in African and Muslim societies could not escape their slavery

• Slavery in the Americas was based on race and heredity

• Enslaved people in African and Muslim societies could not rise socially

• The slavery in Africa and Muslim societies was based primarily on race

On what assumption was the encomienda system based?

• that Europeans had the right to demand labor from Native Americans

• that exposure to European culture would help educate Native Americans

• that living on Spanish plantations would convert Native Americans to Christianity

• that mestizos had more rights than full blooded Native Americans

What was one result of the loss of native lives to disease?

• the ruin of several tobacco and sugar can plantations

• a growing tolerance between the colonists and the natives

• fewer battles between the colonists and natives over land

• a severe shortage of labor in the colonies

Why did the English want to take control of New Netherland?

• As they pushed west into the continent, they collided with New Netherland

• The Dutch and the English were longtime enemies

• New Netherland separated England's northern and southern colonies

• The English wanted to take control of the fur trade and the Hudson Bay

How was Africa affected by the Atlantic Slave Trade?

• Many cultures lost their fittest members, and families were torn apart

• All African countries prospered and grew to be world powers

• Kings were able to stop rebellions with the firearms they received in trade.

• African empires became safer because they traded away their criminals

According to the policy of mercantilism, how could a nation increase its wealth?

• It should center its wealth and power in its government

• It should spread its wealth and power among private individuals

• It should sell more goods than it buys from other countries

• It should buy more goods than it sells to other countries

How did Bartoleme de Las Casas affect race relations in the Americas?

• He urged better treatment of Native Americans but proposed using African laborers

• He led a well-organized uprising against the Spanish to protest the treatment of Native Americans

• He started a colony in present-day Arizona based on equality of all men

• He visited the king of Spain to protest the treatment of Native Americans