4.5, 4.6, & 4.7 Quiz

What trading advantage did the Dutch have over other countries?

• Dutch ships were faster and lighter

• Dutch ships were stronger and more powerful

• Dutch ships were camouflage

• Dutch ships were safer for passengers and cargo

Which of the following correctly describes triangular trade

• Raw goods went from North America, manufactured goods went from Europe, enslaved people went from Arica

• Raw goods went from Europe, manufactured goods went from North America, enslaved people went from Africa

• Raw goods went from North America, manufactured goods went from Africa, enslaved people went from Europe

• Raw goods went from Europe, manufactured goods went from Africa, enslaved people went from North America

Why is there a lack of information about indigenous people of the Americas today?

• Conquistadors forced indigenous people to stop speaking their native language

• Conquistadors burned native books

• Conquistadors threatened people who kept their history alive

• Conquistadors accidentally killed everyone

Which of the following long-term changes in the period circa 1550–1700 best demonstrates that the actions described by de Estete in the passage failed to fully achieve their goals?

• The development of a global economy based on Spanish exports of Andean silver

• American foods becoming staple crops in Eurasia

• The emergence of syncretic religious practices in the Americas

• The growing Spanish dependence on coerced labor in the Americas

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 adoption of indigenous food crops by African migrants

• Portuguese loss of colonial holdings in the Indian Ocean

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

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

PORTUGUESE IVORY PLAQUE REPRESENTING THE CHRIST CHILD ON A SAILING SHIP, PRODUCED IN PORTUGUESE GOA,* EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (*Goa is located on the southwestern coast of India.)

The implicit claim made by the image about a connection between religious devotion and maritime exploration best demonstrates which of the following in the period circa 1450–1750 ?

• Increasing global connections expanded the reach of existing religions.

• Church authorities argued that religious diversity should be respected and protected.

• The intensification of cross-cultural interactions resulted in the development of syncretic religions.

• Religious motivations for European exploration and colonization were secondary to economic motivations.

CLOVE* PRICES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND IN AMSTERDAM, 1580–1850
(in Spanish silver reals, a common trade currency in the East Indies)

For the period circa 1650–1790, the differences between clove prices in Southeast Asia and those in Amsterdam best support which of the following conclusions?

• Imperialism economically benefited those Asians who collaborated with the Europeans and harmed those Asians who resisted European control.

• Imperialism led directly to the articulation of anticolonial ideologies based on Enlightenment principles.

• Imperialism was undertaken mostly to prevent the expansion of rival European powers and resulted in the colonization of areas of no direct economic interest to Europeans.

• Imperialism economically benefited European merchants and governments while leading to the economic decline or stagnation of Asian producers.

“In countries where there is a great scarcity of money, all other saleable goods, and even the labor of men, are given for less money than [in countries] where money is abundant. Thus we see by experience that in France (where money is scarcer than in Spain) bread, wine, cloth, and labor, are worth much less. And even in Spain, in [recent] times when money was scarcer than it is now, saleable goods and labor were given for much less.” ~Martín de Azpilcueta Navarro, Spanish scholar, treatise, 1556

Navarro’s economic observations expressed in the passage above are best understood in the context of which of the following?

• The Spanish-Portuguese colonial rivalry in the Atlantic

• The influx of silver from the Americas into the Spanish economy

• The practice of governments devaluing their currencies by reducing the proportion of precious metals in their coins

• The beginning of large-scale importation of silver by China from Spanish mines in the Americas

Ana Nzinga was a…

• Ruler of Ndongo

• Ruler of Kongo

• Slave in Ndongo

• Slave in Kongo

The Cossacks lived in which country?

• France

• Russia

• Spain

• India