Unit 4 review

All of the following have been African contributions to cultures in the Americas EXCEPT 

• African monetary systems

• African forms of religious observance 

• knowledge of how to grow African crops 

• African folklore 

what was one of the reasons Africans participated in the Atlantic slave trade

• The desire for African leaders to control the trade networks

• To gain influence in the Americas

• because African leader were bribed by plantation owners

• the demand for weapons among African elites 

After Columbus’ voyages, most of the people who came to the Western Hemisphere came from which of the following regions?

• Southern Europe

• Northern Europe

• Western Africa

• East Asia

What disadvantage did the Amerindians have?

• prone to disease

• they did not have contact with other Amerindians

• They were not used to migrating long distances

• they did not have much genetic variation

What is the main export out of the Americas in 1701-1750

All of the following resulted from the growth of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa EXCEPT 

• the shift in trade focus from Saharan routes to the coast 

• the exclusion of Africa from the emerging global market

• destabilization of local African societies

•  increased violence through widespread use of firearms 

 In the period 1500 to 1750, the population of the Portuguese colony of Brazil grew rapidly and became predominantly African. Which of the following best explains these demographic changes?

• The rapid natural increase of Brazil’s early slave population

• The adoption of indigenous food crops by African migrants 

• The increase in global demand for cash crops such as sugar

• Portuguese loss of colonial holdings in the Indian Ocean 

Which of the following most directly led to the arrival of substantial numbers of Africans in the Americas at the time of the painting? 

• The development of large-scale silver mining operations in South America

• The expansion of the plantation system for growing sugarcane and other crops

•  The growth of industrial production in the United States 

• The collapse of the Inca and Aztec Empires as a result of Spanish invasion 

Which of the following was a major change in global patterns of religious beliefs and practices in the period

1450-1750 C.E.?

•  Adherents of monotheistic religions such as Christianity and Islam increased both in number and in geographic scope as a result of conquest, trade, and missionary activities.

•  Intellectual movements such as the European Enlightenment weakened the authority of established religions and led to the growing popularity of atheism worldwide.

•  Messianic, revivalist, and fundamentalist movements came to dominate the indigenous religious traditions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas in response to Western imperialism.

• The emergence of syncretic religions led to an increase in polytheism.

The success of European powers in penetrating the Asian trading system by 1600 can best be explained by the 

• European use of steam power 

• lower prices of European manufactured products 

•  opening of rich silver mines in Peru and Mexico 

•  Asian demand for luxury goods