Reading Quiz 9: Exploration, Conquest, and Trade Empires

What is a possible explanation for European expansion in the Early Modern Period?

• European countries were more powerful than their Asian counterparts.

• European countries were looking for new markets for their goods.

• European countries were looking for more direct trade routes to the east.

• European countries were looking for new sources of wealth.

What is the exchange of living things between the western and eastern hemispheres of the globe that started in 1492 called?

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Which crops did Europeans bring back from the Americas?

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What did Europeans import to the Americas?

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Within a few generations of 1492, what proportion of the Indigenous population of the Americas is thought to have died due to the transmission of Eurasian diseases, known as The Great Dying?

• 10%

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 90%

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Which disease is thought to be primarily responsible for the Great Dying?

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What were the main characteristics of the Conquistadors?

• They were successful Spanish noblemen looking to increase their wealth.

• They were all mandated by the Spanish crown to take land in the Americas.

• They were required to pay the crown one-fifth of all precious metals to the crown.

• They were mandated to convert Indigenous people to Christianity.

In which country(ies) did capitalism first emerge?

• The Netherlands

• England

• France

• Spain

What was not true about the emerging merchant class in the Early Modern period?

• They were mainly urban.

• They came from the nobility.

• They were outside of the existing power structure, which was based on the feudal system.

• They pushed laws to protect wealth and encourage overseas expansion.

• They had very little political power.

By 1800, roughly what percentage of the globe was directly or indirectly controlled by European powers?

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