World History Unit 2 Test Review

What did success in mercantilism depend on?

• Controlling the slave trade
• Having a perfect balance of trade
• Gaining as much gold and silver as possible
•  Salutary Neglect

What did the English ship captains typically offer in trade for a cargo of captured African slaves?

• Guns and finished products
• Gold and Silver
• Sugar and Molasses
• Fish and timber

What ocean was crossed on the Triangular trade routes?

• The Caribbean
• The Indian
• The Atlantic
• The Pacific

What was the path called from Africa to the Americas that was used for trading slaves?

• Middle Passage
• Slave Trade Line
• Center Passage
• The Land Bridge

The journeys of Vasco de Gama, Bartolomeu Dias, and Christopher Columbus became possible in the late 1400s because of the:

• support of exploration by the English monarch.
• trade connections established by the Americans.
• effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
• advancements in sea travel.

What were the three reasons for European exploration?

• Game, God, Glory
• Glory, Fame, and God
• God, Glory, and Gold
• Gifts, Greatness, Glory

What happened to the Inca and Aztec as a result of European expansion? 

• Barely survived
• Thrived
• Demise

As a result of the Columbian exchange, which disease wiped out the majority of natives? 

• Black Plague
• Whooping Cough
• Smallpox
• Measles

What were the three major products traded in triangular trade? 

• Slaves, sugar, rum
• Potatoes, Corn, Tobacco
• God, Guns, Glory

What is considered the "New World?"

• Europe
• Asia
• The Americas
• Africa