Unit 2 Review (1450 CE - 1750 CE)

Which winds blow from west to east?

• Westerlies

• Trade winds

• Prevailing winds

• Northeast winds

What is an association formed by investors or shareholders for the purpose of trade, exploration, and colonization?

• Mercantilism

• Charter Company

• Encomienda System

• Middle Passage

What is a small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic?

• Caravel

• Columbian Exchange

• Portolan maps

• Vasco de Gama

Who was the Portuguese explorer who was the first European sailor to sail around Africa in 1498 and make it to India?

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

• Louis XIV of France

What is the network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin?

• Atlantic System

• Mercantilism

• Middle Passage

• Shimabara Rebellion

What is a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies?

• Middle Passage

• Encomienda System

• Indentured Servants

• Columbian Exchange

What are maps with lines radiating from compasses that showed routes to important ports?

• Portolan maps

• Charter Company

• Guild

• Scientific Revolution

Who mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India?

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

• Ivan the Great

What is an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought?

• Mercantilism

• Encomienda System

• Charter Company

• Scientific Revolution

What is a system based on race that was used for social control and also determined a person's role and importance in society?

• Spanish Caste System

• Indigo Plantations

• Tokugawa Shogunate

• Safavid Empire